[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] tests/igt: Add runtime environment checks

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
>> The problem is that generating the testlist (or printing the commands)
>> is a feature QA actually relies on. I also use it occasionally to
>> quickly test igt library changes. So we can't bail that early. My
>> patch bails fairly late, but I didn't see a better spot.
>> -Daniel
>
> I'm confused then about how this really improves my current situation.

Quick recap of our irc discussion: I guess I'm trying to solve a
slightly different problem, assuming that we always want some kind of
test result. Hence everything fails (as of v2) and the result json
contains the reason. I think that's the right thing to do for
regression testing in a lab-like setting.

For developers I guess a little script or so some option to yell
louder and faster than this here could still be useful. Otoh there'll
always be test-specific failure modes (like runtime pm not configured
properly) and imo it doesn't make much sense to filter for all of them
beforehand. And otherwise I kinda expect that people will cook their
own scripts anyway to kill X, Wayland and a bunch of deamons that get
in the way and then run piglit with a few default options.
-Daniel
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