On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 12:10:43AM -0600, Glenn Washburn wrote: > When a non-native (eg. grub-shell/qemu) test fails it can be useful to be > able to re-run the grub-shell invocation in at least two circumstances. > > 1. The tester wants to re-run the grub-shell invocation with extra args so > that QEMU starts in GDB attach mode for using GDB to debug the test case > 2. For a tester who wants to send a failed test case to another developer for > additional debugging. It would be nice to be able to just zip/tar just > the failed test case test output directory and allow the extracted > directory to easily run the failed test case again. The results in this > case still might not be the same if the sender and reciever do not have > the same QEMU. Though when the QMEU versions are different, I expect the > emulated execution on sender and reciever to be close enough to produce > the same execution path (maybe not with super old QEMUs, but I don't think > its something to be concerned about). > > The first patch is needed to make the other two useful. Without it, I know of > no easy way to enable grub-shell's debug mode when run via `make check`. And > if grub-shell is not in debug mode then it will remove most/all of the > generated files, which would prevent debugging. > > Glenn > > Glenn Washburn (3): > tests: Allow turning on shell tracing from environment variables > grub-shell: Create run.sh in working directory for easily running test > again > grub-shell: Add $GRUB_QEMU_OPTS to run.sh to easily see unofficial > QEMU arguments
For all the patches Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>... Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
