Call for nommu LTP maintainer [was: Re: [PATCH 00/36] Remove UCLINUX from LTP]

[Rob Landley]

On 1/5/24 07:11, Petr Vorel wrote:
>> Nobody is maintaining "uclinux" because that was a distro, but you can build
>> nommu support in buildroot and such, and people do.
> 
> Right, there are nommu users. Will anybody join LTP development to maintain
> nommu support in LTP? The needed work is to add this support to LTP new C API
> [1] and use it in the relevant test. There is some implementation in the old
> API, I have no idea how well it worked.
> 
> If nobody stands for maintaing nommu, we will have to delete it. There is nobody
> from the current maintainers who is using LTP on nommu HW (that is the reason why
> nommu support have not been implemented in the new API).

I'm interested, but overwhelmed. Not sure I've got the spoons to come up to
speed on a new project and give it regular attention just now.

I see you cc'd buildroot (although the message might not go through if you
aren't subscribed, dunno how clogged their moderation queue is these days, and
the cc: list is long enough it might twig anyway). They had a nommu fix go in
earlier this week (commit 98684ba7885b).

That said, qemu supports several nommu platforms and buildroot has defconfigs to
build systems for them:

$ git clone git://buildroot.org/buildroot
$ make help
$ make list-defconfigs | grep qemu
$ make qemu_ppc_bamboo_defconfig
$ make
  (time passes...)
>>> host-gettext-tiny 0.3.2 Extracting
gzip -d -c
/home/landley/buildroot/buildroot/dl/gettext-tiny/gettext-tiny-0.3.2.tar.gz |
tar --strip-components=1 -C
/home/landley/buildroot/buildroot/output/build/host-gettext-tiny-0.3.2   -xf -
mkdir -p
/home/landley/buildroot/buildroot/output/build/host-gettext-tiny-0.3.2/gettext-gnu
xzcat /home/landley/buildroot/buildroot/dl/gettext-tiny/gettext-0.22.4.tar.xz |
tar --strip-components=1 -C
/home/landley/buildroot/buildroot/output/build/host-gettext-tiny-0.3.2/gettext-gnu
 -xf -
xzcat: /home/landley/buildroot/buildroot/dl/gettext-tiny/gettext-0.22.4.tar.xz:
No such file or directory
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
make: *** [package/pkg-generic.mk:209:
/home/landley/buildroot/buildroot/output/build/host-gettext-tiny-0.3.2/.stamp_extracted]
Error 2


Sigh, never build git pull du jour of anything, buildroot's having glitch du
jour. But the point is:

$ grep -rl bamboo board/
board/qemu/ppc-bamboo/readme.txt
$ cat board/qemu/ppc-bamboo/readme.txt
Run the emulation with:

qemu-system-ppc -nographic -M bamboo -kernel output/images/vmlinux -net
nic,model=virtio-net-pci -net user # qemu_ppc_bamboo_defconfig

The login prompt will appear in the terminal that started Qemu
-------------------

In THEORY, once it builds an image (presumably using a tagged release version
rather than expecting "continuous integration" to ever mean anything) you should
be able to launch it with qemu. Assuming the instructions aren't also
bit-rotted. (Or using one of the other nommu boards, I haven't gone through the
whole list to see what they've got. I used to use a nommu arm board, but the
linux kernel broke it when converting everything to device tree and not
regression testing it.)

Buildroot also apparently has an LTP package selectable in menuconfig:

https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/tree/master/package/ltp-testsuite

But I haven't tried it...

Rob

P.S. I automate qemu testing all the time over in toybox, see testroot.sh under
https://github.com/landley/toybox/tree/master/mkroot for an example.