[PATCH v2] drm/doc: Add a few words on validation with IGT

From: Tomeu Vizoso
Date: Thu Sep 01 2016 - 03:42:12 EST


Also provide some pointers for building IGT as some kernel hackers might
not be that familiar with building stuff on Linux distros.

Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
index 12b47c30fe2e..1ba301cebe16 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
@@ -156,6 +156,43 @@ other hand, a driver requires shared state between clients which is
visible to user-space and accessible beyond open-file boundaries, they
cannot support render nodes.

+Validating changes with IGT
+===========================
+
+There's a collection of tests that aims to cover the whole functionality of
+DRM drivers and that can be used to check that changes to DRM drivers or the
+core don't regress existing functionality. This test suite is called IGT and
+its code can be found in https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools/.
+
+To build IGT, start by installing its build dependencies. In Debian-based
+systems::
+
+ # apt-get build-dep intel-gpu-tools
+
+And in Fedora-based systems::
+
+ # dnf builddep intel-gpu-tools
+
+Then clone the repository::
+
+ $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools
+
+Configure the build system and start the build::
+
+ $ cd igt-gpu-tools && ./autogen.sh && make -j6
+
+Download the piglit dependency::
+
+ $ ./scripts/run-tests.sh -d
+
+And run the tests::
+
+ $ ./scripts/run-tests.sh -t kms -t core -s
+
+run-tests.sh is a wrapper around piglit that will execute the tests matching
+the -t options. A report in HTML format will be available in
+./results/html/index.html. Results can be compared with piglit.
+
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