Adding support for HMI tests to execute even on P8 platform

Author: PavamanSubramaniyam

testcases/OpTestHMIHandling.py

@@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ def setUp(self):
                            .format(self.cpu, self.revision))
                 raise unittest.SkipTest("HMIHandling not supported on CPU={} Revision={}"
                                          .format(self.cpu, self.revision))
+        elif self.cpu in ["POWER8", "POWER8E", "POWER8NVL"]:
+            self.revision = ''.join(self.cv_HOST.host_run_command("grep '^revision' /proc/cpuinfo |uniq|sed -e 's/^.*: //;s/ (.*)//;'", console=1))
+            if not self.revision in ["1.0", "2.0", "2.1"]:
+                log.debug("Skipping, HMIHandling NOT supported on CPU={} Revision={}"
+                           .format(self.cpu, self.revision))
+                raise unittest.SkipTest("HMIHandling not supported on CPU={} Revision={}"
+                                         .format(self.cpu, self.revision))
         else:
             log.debug("Skipping, HMIHandling NOT supported on CPU={} Revision={}"
                         .format(self.cpu, self.revision))