Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] tests/acceptance: Add test that runs NetBSD installer on PRep/40p

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Hi Kamil,

On 6/27/19 11:47 PM, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 27.06.2019 13:01, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> +        bios_url = ('ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/rs6000/firmware/'
>> +                    '7020-40p/P12H0456.IMG')
>> +        bios_hash = '1775face4e6dc27f3a6ed955ef6eb331bf817f03'
>> +        bios_path = self.fetch_asset(bios_url, asset_hash=bios_hash)
>> +        drive_url = ('https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-archive/'
>> +                     'NetBSD-4.0/prep/installation/floppy/generic_com0.fs')
>> +        drive_hash = 'dbcfc09912e71bd5f0d82c7c1ee43082fb596ceb'
>> +        drive_path = self.fetch_asset(drive_url, asset_hash=drive_hash)
>> +
>> +        self.vm.set_machine('40p')
>> +        self.vm.set_console()
>> +        self.vm.add_args('-bios', bios_path,
>> +                         '-fda', drive_path)
>> +        self.vm.launch()
>> +        os_banner = 'NetBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Dec 16 00:49:40 PST 2007'
> 
> Is there a specific reason to use NetBSD 4.0? It's a very old release,
> the newest one is 8.1.

The goal of these integration tests is to verify a specific
configuration that worked in the past still works with today codebase.

It is particularly useful for machines that have not a big quantity of
users.

This test does not intent to test NetBSD, but that the PReP/40p machine
is still working, as it used to work in the post saved in the commit
description:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-prep/2017/04/11/msg000112.html

So this test is useful to avoid the PReP machine code to bitrot.

I'd like to know what other from the QEMU community think/expect about
these tests.

FWIW I tested newer versions and they don't boot.

Regards,

Phil.