2 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/test/py/tests/test_help.py b/test/py/tests/test_help.py
index d50295e5bd..bac0a29f5a 100644
--- a/test/py/tests/test_help.py
+++ b/test/py/tests/test_help.py
@@ -2,7 +2,21 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2015 Stephen Warren
 # Copyright (c) 2016, NVIDIA CORPORATION. All rights reserved.
 
+import pytest
+
 def test_help(u_boot_console):
     """Test that the "help" command can be executed."""
 
     u_boot_console.run_command('help')
+
+@pytest.mark.boardspec('sandbox_vpl')
+def test_vpl_help(u_boot_console):
+    try:
+        cons = u_boot_console
+        cons.restart_uboot()
+        cons.run_command('help')
+        output = cons.get_spawn_output().replace('\r', '')
+        assert 'print command description/usage' in output
+    finally:
+        # Restart afterward to get the normal device tree back
+        u_boot_console.restart_uboot()
diff --git a/test/py/tests/test_vpl.py b/test/py/tests/test_vpl.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4af578b917
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/py/tests/test_vpl.py
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+# Copyright 2022 Google LLC
+# Written by Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
+
+import os.path
+import pytest
+
+def test_vpl(u_boot_console, ut_vpl_subtest):
+    """Execute a "ut" subtest.
+
+    The subtests are collected in function generate_ut_subtest() from linker
+    generated lists by applying a regular expression to the lines of file
+    vpl/u-boot-vpl.sym. The list entries are created using the C macro
+    UNIT_TEST().
+
+    Strict naming conventions have to be followed to match the regular
+    expression. Use UNIT_TEST(foo_test_bar, _flags, foo_test) for a test bar in
+    test suite foo that can be executed via command 'ut foo bar' and is
+    implemented in C function foo_test_bar().
+
+    Args:
+        u_boot_console (ConsoleBase): U-Boot console
+        ut_subtest (str): VPL test to be executed (e.g. 'dm platdata_phandle')
+    """
+    try:
+        cons = u_boot_console
+        cons.restart_uboot_with_flags(['-u', '-k', ut_vpl_subtest.split()[1]])
+        output = cons.get_spawn_output().replace('\r', '')
+        assert 'Failures: 0' in output
+    finally:
+        # Restart afterward in case a non-VPL test is run next. This should not
+        # happen since VPL tests are run in their own invocation of test.py, but
+        # the cost of doing this is not too great at present.
+        u_boot_console.restart_uboot()