Open kleinreact opened 1 month ago
This might be a little bit much to fall into the scope of this particular issue, but I wonder how easy it would be to read a specific test setup from configuration files. E.g., CI would have a setup with 8 nodes, while smaller setups would only have 3. Of course, not all topologies would be testable on a 3-setup, but the code generating test cases could account for that. Most other tests (tranceiver up, riscv test, etc.) shouldn't have to care all that much.
Check out the changes introduced by mini-bittide, where you can see what is necessary for changing the current setup to work with 1 FPGA
/2 Nodes
. It shouldn't be that much effort to generalize that to work towards n FPGAs
/m Nodes
setups as well.
Currently,
bittide-experiments
defines https://github.com/bittide/bittide-hardware/blob/703b881e8e468e7916dc01b2f8c49ba559ac4649/bittide-experiments/src/Bittide/Hitl.hs#L94-L96 being fixed to work for 8 node topologies, but the number of FPGAs available may change and should be configured inbittide-instances
instead: https://github.com/bittide/bittide-hardware/blob/703b881e8e468e7916dc01b2f8c49ba559ac4649/bittide-instances/src/Bittide/Instances/Hitl/Setup.hs#L21-L22Therefore, it may be desirable to generalize the definition in
bittide-experiments
towards an arbitrary number of FPGAs or to implement the proposal given in the comment.Note that
bittide-experiments
cannot just use the value frombittide-instances
, as this would introduce circular dependencies.