[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t] docs/chamelium: Explain that the Chamelium should only target one DUT

Paul Kocialkowski paul.kocialkowski at linux.intel.com
Tue Aug 29 15:11:33 UTC 2017


This adds an explanation about why the Chamelium should only be
connected to one target device at once to the in-tree documentation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski at linux.intel.com>
---
 docs/chamelium.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/chamelium.txt b/docs/chamelium.txt
index 77594284..ae7ac34a 100644
--- a/docs/chamelium.txt
+++ b/docs/chamelium.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ CI system with a shared testlist) to remove the Chamelium configuration from the
 hosts that shouldn't connect to the Chamelium so that they can be skipped, which
 is faster than a network timeout.
 
+It should also be noted that each Chamelium platform should only be used for
+testing a single target device at a time. This is because the reset call issued
+by the IGT tests is common to all connectors and thus one machine running a test
+on a given connector may reset the chamelium while another machine is running
+a test on another connector.
+
 An example fully-featured configuration follows:
 [Common]
 FrameDumpPath=/root/
-- 
2.14.0



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