[PATCH 06/13] selftests/nolibc: allow specify a bios for qemu
Zhangjin Wu
falcon at tinylab.org
Fri May 26 03:25:18 PDT 2023
Hi, Thomas
> On 2023-05-25 01:52:29+0800, Zhangjin Wu wrote:
> > riscv qemu has a builtin bios (opensbi), but it may not match the latest
> > kernel and some old versions may hang during boot, let's allow user pass
> > a newer version to qemu via the -bios option.
>
> Nitpick:
>
> This seems very specific and hopefully only necessary temporarily.
>
RISC-V is such a new ISA and the Spec (especially the SBI) changes very
frequently ;-)
> Instead it could be changed to some generic mechanim like
> "QEMU_ARGS_EXTRA"?
>
Good point, will apply it.
Thanks,
Zhangjin
> > we can use it like this:
> >
> > $ make run BIOS=/path/to/new-bios ...
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon at tinylab.org>
> > ---
> > tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile
> > index 9adc8944dd80..9213763ab3b6 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile
> > @@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ QEMU_ARGS_mips = -M malta -append "panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)"
> > QEMU_ARGS_riscv = -M virt -append "console=ttyS0 panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)"
> > QEMU_ARGS_s390 = -M s390-ccw-virtio -m 1G -append "console=ttyS0 panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)"
> > QEMU_ARGS_loongarch = -M virt -append "console=ttyS0,115200 panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)"
> > -QEMU_ARGS = $(QEMU_ARGS_$(ARCH))
> > +QEMU_ARGS_BIOS = $(if $(BIOS),-bios $(BIOS))
> > +QEMU_ARGS = $(QEMU_ARGS_$(ARCH)) $(QEMU_ARGS_BIOS)
> >
> > # OUTPUT is only set when run from the main makefile, otherwise
> > # it defaults to this nolibc directory.
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