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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@gmail.com>
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        "John 'Warthog9' Hawley" <warthog9@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] elkdat: an easy linux kernel development and test
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:54:06 +0900
Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@gmail.com> wrote:

> elkdat is a tool to ease linux kernel development/test. It
> automatically setups linux kernel
> source repository and a VM for linux kernel development and test. In
> addition, It runs
> the following kinds of tests automatically just by one command.
> 
> - build, install, boot you own kernel
> - run your own tests on your own kernel
> - test the all patches in a patchset
> - find a problematic commit with bisect
> 
>   NOTE:
>   Actually these features are achieved by ktest. elkdat is just a
> ktest's wrapper.
>   Special thanks to Steven Rostedt!

Nice!

John, FYI...

-- Steve

> 
> 
> Here are some examples.
> 
> * Boot your own kernel
> 
> ```
> $ ./test boot
> ```
> 
> * Run your own test on your own kernel
> 
> ```
> $ ./test test /path/to/your/own/test
> ```
> 
> * Test whether all patches in your patcheset are bootable or not one by one
> 
> ```
> $ ./test patchcheck <first patch's commit ID> <last patch's commit ID> boot
> ```
> 
> * Find which commit introduces an un-bootable bug by bysect
> 
> ```
> ./test bisect <good commit> <bad commit> boot
> ```
> 
> 
> For more information, please refer to the following URL.
> 
> https://github.com/satoru-takeuchi/elkdat
> 
> Thanks,
> Satoru