Test harness mandatory?

[gits00]

Hello,
My question is regarding the necessity of use of EnergyRunner Framework to run the benchmark. Looks like we need to implement the Test harness based on https://github.com/mlcommons/tiny/tree/master/. Is this a mandatory requirement? Alternatively, I may be able to use platformIO or some other native tool to download the code and run. Am I missing something?
Thank you in advance

[jeremy-syn]

@gits00 I'm not sure I understand the question. In previous rounds, we've used the EEMBC runner, which can be obtained at https://www.eembc.org/energyrunner/mlperftiny/. We are currently implementing a new runner to replace it, which is in the runner subdirectory of the feature_new_runner branch. That new runner also requires an interface board, whose firmware is in the interface subdirectory of the same branch.