Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of GSoC/2017/RTEMSTesterImprovements

Timestamp:

05/24/17 13:29:58 (7 years ago)

Author:

Tanu Hari Dixit

Comment:

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GSoC/2017/RTEMSTesterImprovements

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 * Ser2net is used for providing remote access to a unit’s server ports over telnet. It is proposed to add support for a telnet console in rtems-tester so that it becomes convenient to telnet into serially connected devices and test applications on them, remotely.
 * I’ll add simulator recipes for RTEMS to work with gem5 for sparc64/usiii and arm/realview_pbx_a9_qemu BSPs.
-* I also plan to export the results of rtems-tester to xml format so that it can be plotted easily and used for other analysis as developers and users deem fit. 
+* I also plan to export the results of rtems-tester to xml format and text-report so that it can be plotted easily and used for other analysis as developers and users deem fit. 
 
 
+== Updates: ==
+We have decided to rewrite configuration files in INI format instead of YAML in the absence of standard support for YAML in Python. Using PyYAML would add a dependency in the tool that would be difficult to handle across all hosts we support.
+=== Handling macro values like %{_rtscripts}: ===
+We will use RawConfigParser to parse the macros from INI files. It handles %(value) and %{value} both as format specification.
+=== Handling those macro files that need user-specific things ===
+We plan on taking assistance from a user-specified "settings" file that can help the main configuration file with user-specifics. THe ini file should have some defaults that lead to suitable errors which the user can rectify in the settings file. 
+=== Macro Maps ===
+The macro maps are like namespaces and shouldn't be mixed for re-usability in different macro files for different BSPs.
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