From 55660d08a095158069ec37915ec4f0843588cd58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 22:00:52 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] binman: Document parallel tests
Since binman can run tests in parallel, document this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
---
tools/binman/README | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README
index 927fa856ac..ac193f16cf 100644
--- a/tools/binman/README
+++ b/tools/binman/README
@@ -702,6 +702,20 @@ To enable Python test coverage on Debian-type distributions (e.g. Ubuntu):
$ sudo apt-get install python-coverage python-pytest
+Concurrent tests
+----------------
+
+Binman tries to run tests concurrently. This means that the tests make use of
+all available CPUs to run.
+
+ To enable this:
+
+ $ sudo apt-get install python-subunit python3-subunit
+
+Use '-P 1' to disable this. It is automatically disabled when code coverage is
+being used (-T) since they are incompatible.
+
+
Advanced Features / Technical docs
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2.39.5