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Re: Only userland?



On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 05:56:37PM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> 
> I am interested to know what you would need in ATF to be able to do  
> that (i.e., the "write tests for my custom functions which run in  
> kernel space" part).  The way I see it, you should either write a  
> kernel module with the testing code, load it, get the results (or  
> crash), and unload it (which you can already do with ATF, but  
> manually).  Or you'd just recompile the code as a userland binary and  
> use it in the tests (as NetBSD's rump allows).  Or... your approach? :-)

I wrote a kernel module and tested my code by using printf(9).
I automated the testing process by parsing the dmesg(8) output ...


Cheers,
Martin

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