Functional testing of mainline vchiq driver

[Phil Elwell]

On 24/10/2016 17:09, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i want to submit some patches for the vchiq in staging, but i don't know
> how to test the specific function of the vchiq driver in mainline (i
> don't want to backport to the downstream kernel).
>
> I've seen some userspace tools like vchiq_test. Which parameter settings
> are recommend?
I would recommend "vchiq_test -f" (functional) to check that nothing
fundamental has broken in the protocol, and "vchiq_test -p" (ping) to
perform a large number of transfers, including small messages and bulk data.

Phil Elwell, Raspberry Pi