Re: barebox-bringup utility

[Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>]

Hello Sascha,

On 1/5/26 3:08 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Claude Code struggles to to bring up barebox properly with
> labgrid-pytest and running barebox on real hardware with the barebox
> integrated pytest infrastructure is also not easy as there are several
> assumptions about QEMU in it.

We have a container to address this.

> I thought letting Claude write a small
> python tool to start barebox in QEMU. It turned out to be useful for
> interactive usage as well, so here it is:
> 
> https://github.com/saschahauer/barebox-bringup
> 
> It makes starting barebox as easy as:
> 
> barebox-bringup -c ~/test/arm/imx6s-riotboard.yaml
> barebox-bringup -c test/arm/virt@multi_v7_defconfig.yaml

Does

./scripts/container.sh pytest --interactive \
	--lg-env test/arm/virt@multi_v8_defconfig.yaml

not work for you?
> It will open a console which captures the barebox output from the start.
> The tool has options to capture to a log file

This can be achieved with --lg-log when using pytest.

> and to accept input from a
> fifo.

Untested, but should be possible with mkfifo and redirection?

> At least with real hardware the closest I could get was:
> 
> labgrid-client -c ~/test/arm/imx6s-riotboard.yaml -s barebox console

By the way, I think we should start adding YAMLs for real hardware as
well into the repository.

> This loses output though, as the console is only started after barebox
> has already started, so I usually had running a permanent console on
> another terminal.
> 
> Maybe there are ways to improve the barebox pytest or to improve labgrid
> itself, but in the meantime somebody might find this useful as well.

I already rewrote my perl tool in python, so it's more approachable to
others. It would be cool if missing features are implemented there, so
everyone can use it.

Cheers,
Ahmad

> 
> Sascha
> 


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