need to implement various "hook" scripts that are called by the test suite at
the appropriate time.
-On Debian or Debian-like distributions, the following packages are required.
-Some packages are required to execute any test, and others only for specific
-tests. Similar package names should exist in other distributions.
-
-| Package | Version tested (Ubuntu 14.04) |
-| -------------- | ----------------------------- |
-| python | 2.7.5-5ubuntu3 |
-| python-pytest | 2.5.1-1 |
-| python-subunit | - |
-| gdisk | 0.8.8-1ubuntu0.1 |
-| dfu-util | 0.5-1 |
-| dtc | 1.4.0+dfsg-1 |
-| openssl | 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.22 |
+In order to run the testsuite at a minimum we require that both python3 and
+pip for python3 be installed. All of the required python modules are
+described in the requirements.txt file in this directory and can be installed
+with the command ```pip install -r requirements.txt```
+
+In order to execute certain tests on their supported platforms other tools
+will be required. The following is an incomplete list:
+
+| Package |
+| -------------- |
+| gdisk |
+| dfu-util |
+| dtc |
+| openssl |
+| sudo OR guestmount |
+| e2fsprogs |
+| dosfstools |
+
+Please use the apporirate commands for your distribution to match these tools
+up with the package that provides them.
The test script supports either:
### Using `virtualenv` to provide requirements
-Older distributions (e.g. Ubuntu 10.04) may not provide all the required
-packages, or may provide versions that are too old to run the test suite. One
-can use the Python `virtualenv` script to locally install more up-to-date
-versions of the required packages without interfering with the OS installation.
-For example:
+The recommended way to run the test suite, in order to ensure reproducibility
+is to use `virtualenv` to set up the necessary environment. This can be done
+via the following commands:
```bash
$ cd /path/to/u-boot
-$ sudo apt-get install python python-virtualenv
-$ virtualenv venv
+$ sudo apt-get install python3 python3-virtualenv
+$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv
$ . ./venv/bin/activate
-$ pip install pytest
+$ pip install -r test/py/requirements.txt
```
## Testing sandbox