[Piglit] Piglit Plans

[Tom Gall]

Within Linaro we've recently picked up piglit and added into our
buckets of automated tests, running on Android.

We'd sure like to see piglit advance for GLES testing so there seems
like a lot of room for collaboration. More than willing to give it a
go.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz at chromium.org> wrote:
> +piglit@
>
> Hi Chad,
>
> I do not have much time to work on piglit these days, and when I do, I
> usually just focus on trying to get piglit to work with the Chrome OS
> ARM (EGL/GLES) platforms.
> The last time I looked at it was about a month ago.
>
> (1) To get stuff working, originally I planned to use libepoxy.
> However, it has been 10 months since Eric Anholt first sent up
> libepoxy conversion patches to piglit, and upstream piglit still
> hasn't been converted yet.  So, I decided to just hack up piglit
> dispatch to work with Mali's eglGetProcAddress() not accepting core
> functions (glGetString) instead.
> That patch also contains a fixes eglQueryString(EGL_NO_DISPLAY,
> EGL_EXTENSIONS) when an EGL does not support
> EGL_EXT_client_extensions.
> * https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/223644/1
>
> (2) I also have a set of piglit patches that fix some EGL tests, I've
> been meaning to upstream them when I get a chance:
> * https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/223645/
>
> I have rebased these patches onto current upstream piglit commit [0]
> and uploaded them to my newly created github repo [1].
> [0] 88fcc67ab168ede4299effd2b0bac9ab7591c552
>    registry: Update gl.xml
> [1] https://github.com/djkurtz/piglit/tree/egl_work
>
> With this patch set I get the following results on a "peach_pit"
> Chromebook (Samsung ARM Chromebook 2:
> http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/chrome-os-devices/XE503C12-K01US):
>   # DISPLAY=:0 ./bin/piglit run lib/piglit/tests/quick.py results/q1
>   [25492/25492] fail: 28, pass: 86, skip: 25378 Running Test(s): 25492
>   Thank you for running Piglit!
>
> 112 tests total actually run.
>
> (3) I also have a branch on github [2] that currently runs about 800
> piglit tests for EGL/GLES.
>
> [2] https://github.com/djkurtz/piglit/tree/egl_work_tom_dan
>
>  # DISPLAY=:0 ./bin/piglit run lib/piglit/tests/quick.py results/q2
>  [26446/26446] fail: 485, pass: 330, skip: 25631 Running Test(s):
> 26446
>  Thank you for running Piglit!
>
> The glsles shader/glslparser work is based heavily off of work
> originally done by Tom Gall.  This work was also never upstreamed to
> piglit, so, again, it gets stale quickly.
> Also it takes a long time to go through all of shader test failures
> and skips to see if they are real driver issues, bad tests, or due to
> issues with the egl/gles2 piglit integration.   This is often a slow
> manual process which involves lots of double checking against GLSL and
> OpenGL ES specs.  This patch set is still very much WIP, and needs a
> lot of work to clean it up and make it more upstream friendly.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Thanks,
> -Dan
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Chad Versace <chad.versace at intel.com> wrote:
>> Daniel, what are your current plans for Piglit? And what are the big issues
>> you are facing? I'm particularly interested in learning what you're doing
>> with libepoxy.
>>
>> (If you're open to discussing this publicly, feel free to move this
>> conversation to the Piglit list).
>>
>> ~Chad



-- 
Regards,
Tom

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