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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst index 996f7354e05c..56fec6ed1ad8 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst @@ -257,6 +257,43 @@ core don't regress existing functionality. This test suite is called IGT and its code and instructions to build and run can be found in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools/. +Using VKMS to test DRM API +-------------------------- + +VKMS is a software-only model of a KMS driver that is useful for testing +and for running compositors. VKMS aims to enable a virtual display without +the need for a hardware display capability. These characteristics made VKMS +a perfect tool for validating the DRM core behavior and also support the +compositor developer. VKMS makes it possible to test DRM functions in a +virtual machine without display, simplifying the validation of some of the +core changes. + +To Validate changes in DRM API with VKMS, start setting the kernel: make +sure to enable VKMS module; compile the kernel with the VKMS enabled and +install it in the target machine. VKMS can be run in a Virtual Machine +(QEMU, virtme or similar). It's recommended the use of KVM with the minimum +of 1GB of RAM and four cores. + +It's possible to run the IGT-tests in a VM in two ways: + + 1. Use IGT inside a VM + 2. Use IGT from the host machine and write the results in a shared directory. + +As follow, there is an example of using a VM with a shared directory with +the host machine to run igt-tests. As an example it's used virtme:: + + $ virtme-run --rwdir /path/for/shared_dir --kdir=path/for/kernel/directory --mods=auto + +Run the igt-tests in the guest machine, as example it's ran the 'kms_flip' +tests:: + + $ /path/for/igt-gpu-tools/scripts/run-tests.sh -p -s -t "kms_flip.*" -v + +In this example, instead of build the igt_runner, Piglit is used +(-p option); it's created html summary of the tests results and it's saved +in the folder "igt-gpu-tools/results"; it's executed only the igt-tests +matching the -t option. + Display CRC Support ------------------- |