The Hardware Test Executive (HTX) is a suite of test tools for hardware validation of OpenPOWER system.
The HTX stress tests the system by exercising all or selected hardware components concurrently to uncover any hardware design flaws and hardware-hardware or hardware-software interaction issues.
The HTX consists of test programs (a.k.a exercisers) to test processor, memory and IO subsystem of POWER system.
The HTX runs on PowerKVM guests (Linux distributions like Ubuntu, SuSE and Redhat), and OPAL-based distributions (like Ubuntu) and on Linux host machine. HTX supports two types of control interfaces to exercisers, user interactive and command line.
Please refer Documentation dir.
Download the source from github.
Edit htx.mk file to point TOPDIR to downloaded HTX source.
Also set HTX_RELEASE variable to appropriate distro for which you are
building HTX source for. Possible values are:
- htxubuntu
- htxrhel72le
- htxrhel7
- htxsles12,
- htxfedora
- htxfedorale
Build instructions:
In Debian/Ubuntu
- install git to download source code
apt-get install git - download HTX source code
git clone https://www.github.com/open-power/HTX - install other packages needed to compile HTX
apt-get install gcc make libncurses5 g++ libdapl-dev
3a) for Ubuntu 14.04 there is no libdapl-dev package, so have to download and compile dapl separately
Can download latest dapl version (dapl-2.1.9.tar.gz) from https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/dapl/
3b) install following packages needed to compile dapl
apt-get install libibverbs-dev librdmacm-dev
3c) cd into dapl directory and "./configure" "make" and then "make install" - back in HTX directory do a "make all" and then after compiling do a "make deb" which will create a htxubuntu.deb package
Note that HTX assumes you are building on a PowerPC distribution.
Other targets:
- To clean: make clean
- To make rpm package: work in progress
Please refer HTX Users manual at Documentation/HTX_user_manual.txt
for details.
Apache License, Version 2.0. For full details see LICENSE.
If you want to add your own test program as part of HTX. Please refer HTX
Programmer's manual at Documentation/HTX_developers_manual.txt.