+# About Adafruit_Micropython_Blinka
+
This repository is structured around integration tests rooted at the `test/src`
directory, intended to test the compatibility layer rooted in `src`.
Typically the tests have first run on a native CircuitPython platform, and are then used to
prove equivalence on a Micropython platform running the **adafruit_blinka** compatibility layer.
+# Tests so far
+
Tests of compatible versions of **digitalio**, **board** and **microcontroller** have successfully demonstrated
the same code running on either platform, setting and getting pin values and using pull.
test_module_name("testing.universal.digitalio")
```
+To prove this on a newly-flashed Feather Huzzah running Micropython 1.9.3,
+it should be possible (on a posix-compliant platform with adafruit_ampy installed)
+to `cd test/scripts` then run `./upload_feather_huzzah_micropython_put.sh` to
+synchronize relevant files to the filesystem of the huzzah, reset the huzzah then
+connect using `screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200` before running the above commands.
+
+Micropython hosts require a micropython repository alongside
+the Adafruit_Micropython_Blinka repository. For circuitpython,
+the repository is expected to be called circuitpython_2.2.3.
+In each case, the matching version should have been checked out from github
+and `make` needs to have been run in the `mpy-cross` folder. This provides a tool
+to make bytecode-compiled .mpy versions of all .py files before upload so that
+tests can be achieved within the limited memory available on many target platforms.
+
## Comments
There are reference routines in `test/scripts` like `upload_feather_huzzah_micropython_put.sh` which execute a selective bytecode-compile to .mpy format and an ampy upload for CircuitPython/Micropython on esp8266, or `upload_pyboard_micropython_cp.sh` which selectively bytecode-compiles and synchronizes files with cp to the CIRCUITPY or PYBFLASH disk mount for stm32 and samd21 platforms.
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