[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t] docs/chamelium: add manual xmlrpc usage

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Hi,

On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 11:28 +0300, Simon Ser wrote:
> For debugging purposes, it's useful to be able to send manual XML-RPC calls to
> the Chamelium. This commit adds an example call and links to the utility and
> the Chamelium API interface docs.

Reviewed-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski at bootlin.com>

Cheers,

Paul

> Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <simon.ser at intel.com>
> ---
>  docs/chamelium.txt | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/chamelium.txt b/docs/chamelium.txt
> index 5cc85d6e9d5e..13edb79409bd 100644
> --- a/docs/chamelium.txt
> +++ b/docs/chamelium.txt
> @@ -117,6 +117,16 @@ $ ./scripts/run-tests.sh -t chamelium
>  Debugging the Chamelium
>  -----------------------
> 
> +It is possible to manually send Chamelium RPC calls with the xmlrpc utility
> +(from xmlrpc-c). For instance, to plug the DisplayPort port:
> +$ xmlrpc http://192.168.1.2:9992 Plug i/1
> +
> +The xmlrpc utility documentation is available at:
> +http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/doc/xmlrpc.html
> +
> +The XML-RPC Chamelium interface is described here:
> +https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/chameleon/+/refs/heads/master/chameleond/interface.py
> +
>  Logs that may be useful for debugging can be obtained either by connecting to
>  the board via SSH or serial console and looking at the daemon logs from
>  /var/log, such as:
> --
> 2.21.0
> 
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Paul Kocialkowski, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
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