Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 02/18] ppc / sparc: Add a tester for checking whether OpenBIOS runs successfully

[Thomas Huth]

On 17.06.2016 08:36, David Gibson wrote:
> From: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> 
> Since the mac99 and g3beige PowerPC machines recently broke without
> being noticed, it would be good to have a tester for "make check"
> that detects such issues immediately. A simple way to test the firmware
> of these machines is to use the "-prom-env" parameter of QEMU. This
> parameter can be used to put some Forth code into the 'boot-command'
> firmware variable which then can signal success to the tester by
> writing a magic value to a known memory location. And since some of the
> Sparc machines are also using OpenBIOS, they are now tested with this
> prom-env-tester, too.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> [dwg: Removed sparc64, because it trips a TCG bug on 32-bit hosts]
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> ---
>  tests/Makefile.include |  6 ++++
>  tests/prom-env-test.c  | 90 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 96 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tests/prom-env-test.c
> 
> diff --git a/tests/Makefile.include b/tests/Makefile.include
> index 6135875..33fcdcb 100644
> --- a/tests/Makefile.include
> +++ b/tests/Makefile.include
> @@ -259,6 +259,11 @@ check-qtest-ppc-y += tests/boot-order-test$(EXESUF)
>  check-qtest-ppc64-y += tests/boot-order-test$(EXESUF)
>  check-qtest-ppc64-y += tests/spapr-phb-test$(EXESUF)
>  gcov-files-ppc64-y += ppc64-softmmu/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c
> +check-qtest-ppc-y = tests/prom-env-test$(EXESUF)
> +check-qtest-ppc64-y = tests/prom-env-test$(EXESUF)
> +check-qtest-sparc-y = tests/prom-env-test$(EXESUF)
> +#Disabled for now, triggers a TCG bug on 32-bit hosts
> +#check-qtest-sparc64-y = tests/prom-env-test$(EXESUF)

D'Oh! I just realized that there is a stupid copy-n-paste error in these
changes: It should be '+=' instead of '=', otherwise the endianness-test
for these targets is not run anymore... :-( Sorry!

I'll send a fix immediately...

 Thomas