test/py: Provide a way to get early console output

Some tests want to check the console output from SPL or U-Boot proper.
Provide a means to do this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/py/u_boot_console_base.py b/test/py/u_boot_console_base.py
index 2dcb2894f9..3d2ac44875 100644
--- a/test/py/u_boot_console_base.py
+++ b/test/py/u_boot_console_base.py
@@ -377,6 +377,16 @@ class ConsoleBase(object):
             pass
         self.p = None
 
+    def get_spawn_output(self):
+        """Return the start-up output from U-Boot
+
+        Returns:
+            The output produced by ensure_spawed(), as a string.
+        """
+        if self.p:
+            return self.p.get_expect_output()
+        return None
+
     def validate_version_string_in_text(self, text):
         """Assert that a command's output includes the U-Boot signon message.