[Libre-soc-dev] daily kan-ban update 28jun2021

[Tobias Platen]

On Tue, 2021-06-29 at 19:16 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=soc.git;a=commitdiff;h=HEAD;hp=d1fa49728c44f1054efe442e81a3c0e952743534
> 
> just saw this, tobias: i don't know if you tried it already, i found
> that you can cut down on time and also often find out patterns by
> cutting out some of the test data (one at a time is the slow way) and
> do a binary search on what actually causes the failure.
> 
> then when *only* the data left causes a failure you can sometimes see
> that the addresses are inter-related, or some timing etc.
> 
> but with the extra non-related data you can't see that.
> 
> also, by identifying which piece of data had to be removed to get the
> test to *not* fail, this is also valuable info that is otherwise
> missing from either staring at code or VCD traces.
Yes, I did a cut out on test data, so that the test does not fail
first. So now I am going to document that first, and uncomment lines
that are not needed.

I have already identified which piece of data has to be removed.

Tobias