[Sound-open-firmware] [RFC PATCH 0/6] Host testbench

[Liam Girdwood]

On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 19:29 -0700, Ranjani Sridharan wrote:
> This set of patches introduces the testbench for audio processing
> components in SOF. The testbench enables functional/quality
> testing of SOF components. The testbench reads in audio samples
> from a file and write out the processed samples to the output file.
> 
> The host directory includes common code with routines for topology parsing
> and setting up sof ipc, scheduler and processing pipelines. It also
> includes simpler implementations for SOF features such as tracing.
> It also includes a new file component that allows reading in or writing
> out samples from/to a file.
> 
> The host directory also includes the testbench for setting up pipelines
> based on a test topology. It reads in input samples from a file
> , schedules pipeline copy and copies the processed sample to the output
> file. The output file can be used to perform audio quality tests using
> matlab/octave. Currently it supports only volume pipelines. 
> Support for other components such as src/eq will be added soon.
> 
> Ranjani Sridharan (6):
>   host: add host testbench common source and header files
>   host: add new component for file IO
>   host: add testbench program
>   host: include host testbench directory for compilation
>   scripts: add scritps for building host library and invoking the
>     testbench
>   doc: add README for host testbench
> 
> 
I've applied so testers can start testing, but have some minor comments that can
be fixed incrementally.

Thanks

Liam
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