test: Improve handling of sending commands

We expect commands to be echoed and this should happen quite quickly,
since U-Boot is sitting at the prompt waiting for a command.

Reduce the timeout for this situation. Try to produce a more useful
error message when something goes wrong. Also handle the case where the
connection has gone away since the last command was issued.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

diff --git a/test/py/u_boot_console_base.py b/test/py/u_boot_console_base.py
index 573d76dd83226abd136746e712b73590b331f846..42c81b2d13f459b03f7b791ff2b94239a0c47e63 100644 (file)
--- a/test/py/u_boot_console_base.py
+++ b/test/py/u_boot_console_base.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ PAT_RE = 1
 
 # Timeout before expecting the console to be ready (in milliseconds)
 TIMEOUT_MS = 30000                  # Standard timeout
+TIMEOUT_CMD_MS = 10000              # Command-echo timeout
 
 # Timeout for board preparation in lab mode. This needs to be enough to build
 # U-Boot, write it to the board and then boot the board. Since this process is
@@ -300,22 +301,28 @@ class ConsoleBase(object):
 
         try:
             self.at_prompt = False
+            if not self.p:
+                raise BootFail(
+                    f"Lab failure: Connection lost when sending command '{cmd}'")
+
             if send_nl:
                 cmd += '\n'
-            while cmd:
-                # Limit max outstanding data, so UART FIFOs don't overflow
-                chunk = cmd[:self.max_fifo_fill]
-                cmd = cmd[self.max_fifo_fill:]
-                self.p.send(chunk)
-                if not wait_for_echo:
-                    continue
-                chunk = re.escape(chunk)
-                chunk = chunk.replace('\\\n', '[\r\n]')
-                m = self.p.expect([chunk] + self.bad_patterns)
-                if m != 0:
-                    self.at_prompt = False
-                    raise BootFail('Bad pattern found on console: ' +
-                                    self.bad_pattern_ids[m - 1])
+            rem = cmd  # Remaining to be sent
+            with self.temporary_timeout(TIMEOUT_CMD_MS):
+                while rem:
+                    # Limit max outstanding data, so UART FIFOs don't overflow
+                    chunk = rem[:self.max_fifo_fill]
+                    rem = rem[self.max_fifo_fill:]
+                    self.p.send(chunk)
+                    if not wait_for_echo:
+                        continue
+                    chunk = re.escape(chunk)
+                    chunk = chunk.replace('\\\n', '[\r\n]')
+                    m = self.p.expect([chunk] + self.bad_patterns)
+                    if m != 0:
+                        self.at_prompt = False
+                        raise BootFail(f"Failed to get echo on console (cmd '{cmd}':rem '{rem}'): " +
+                                        self.bad_pattern_ids[m - 1])
             if not wait_for_prompt:
                 return
             if wait_for_reboot: