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Release 0.2.0 (unreleased)

New Features

  • The target now saves it's attached drivers, resources and protocols in a lookup table, avoiding the need of importing many Drivers and Protocols (see Syntactic sugar for Targets)
  • The new subcommand labgrid-client monitor shows resource or places changes as they happen, which is useful during development or debugging.
  • The new QEMUDriver runs a system image in QEmu and implements the :any:`ConsoleProtocol` and :any:`PowerProtocol`. This allows using labgrid without any real hardware.
  • The bootloader drivers now have a reset method.
  • The BareboxDriver's boot string is now configurable, which allows it to work with the quiet Linux boot parameter.
  • The environment yaml file can now list Python files (under the 'imports' key). They are imported before constructing the Targets, which simplifies using custom Resources, Drivers or Strategies.
  • The pytest plugin now stores metadata about the environment yaml file in the junit XML output.
  • The labgrid-client tool now understands a --state option to transition to the provided state using a :any:`Strategy`. This requires an environment yaml file with a :any:`RemotePlace` Resources and matching Drivers.
  • Resource matches for places configured in the coordinator can now have a name, allowing multiple resources with the same class.
  • The new Target.__getitem__ method makes writing using protocols less verbose.
  • The NetworkPowerDriver now support the newer NETIO 4 models.
  • The ShellDriver now supports configuring the login prompt timeout.
  • The SerialDriver now supports using plain TCP instead of RFC 2217, which is needed from some console servers.
  • Experimental: The labgrid-autoinstall tool was added (see below).

Incompatible Changes

  • When using the coordinator, it must be upgrade together with the clients because of the newly introduce match names.
  • Resources and Drivers now need to be created with an explicit name parameter. It can be None to keep the old behaviour. See below for details.
  • Classes derived from :any:`Resource` or :any:`Driver` now need to use @attr.s(cmp=False) instead of @attr.s because of a change in the attrs module version 17.1.0.

Syntactic sugar for Targets

Targets are now able to retrieve requested drivers, resources or protocols by name instead of by class. This allows removing many imports, e.g.

from labgrid.driver import ShellDriver

shell = target.get_driver(ShellDriver)

becomes

shell = target.get_driver("ShellDriver")

Also take a look at the examples, they have been ported to the new syntax as well.

Multiple Driver Instances

For some Protocols, it is useful to allow multiple instances.

DigitalOutputProtocol:
A board may have two jumpers to control the boot mode in addition to a reset GPIO. Previously, it was not possible to use these on a single target.
ConsoleProtocol:
Some boards have multiple console interfaces or expose a login prompt via a USB serial gadget.
PowerProtocol:
In some cases, multiple power ports need to be controlled for one Target.

To support these use cases, Resources and Drivers must be created with a name parameter. When updating your code to this version, you can either simply set the name to None to keep the previous behaviour. Alternatively, pass a string as the name.

Old:

>>> t = Target("MyTarget")
>>> SerialPort(t)
SerialPort(target=Target(name='MyTarget', env=None), state=<BindingState.bound: 1>, avail=True, port=None, speed=115200)
>>> SerialDriver(t)
SerialDriver(target=Target(name='MyTarget', env=None), state=<BindingState.bound: 1>, txdelay=0.0)

New (with name=None):

>>> t = Target("MyTarget")
>>> SerialPort(t, None)
SerialPort(target=Target(name='MyTarget', env=None), name=None, state=<BindingState.bound: 1>, avail=True, port=None, speed=115200)
>>> SerialDriver(t, None)
SerialDriver(target=Target(name='MyTarget', env=None), name=None, state=<BindingState.bound: 1>, txdelay=0.0)

New (with real names):

>>> t = Target("MyTarget")
>>> SerialPort(t, "MyPort")
SerialPort(target=Target(name='MyTarget', env=None), name='MyPort', state=<BindingState.bound: 1>, avail=True, port=None, speed=115200)
>>> SerialDriver(t, "MyDriver")
SerialDriver(target=Target(name='MyTarget', env=None), name='MyDriver', state=<BindingState.bound: 1>, txdelay=0.0)

Auto-Installer Tool

To simplify using labgrid for provisioning several boards in parallel, the labgrid-autoinstall tool was added. It reads a YAML file defining several targets and a Python script to be run for each board. Interally, it spawns a child process for each target, which waits until a matching resource becomes available and then executes the script.

For example, this makes it simple to load a bootloader via the :any:`BootstrapProtocol`, use the :any:`AndroidFastbootDriver` to upload a kernel with initramfs and then write the target's eMMC over a USB Mass Storage gadget.

Note

labgrid-autoinstall is still experimental and no documentation has been written.

Release 0.1.0 (released May 11, 2017)

This is the initial release of labgrid.