On 23/01/2020 01.36, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> The boot-serial test uses SeaBIOS on HPPA, and expects to read the
> "SeaBIOS wants SYSTEM HALT" string, see [*]:
>
> 122 void __VISIBLE __noreturn hlt(void)
> 123 {
> 124 if (pdc_debug)
> 125 printf("HALT initiated from %p\n", __builtin_return_address(0));
> 126 printf("SeaBIOS wants SYSTEM HALT.\n\n");
> 127 asm volatile("\t.word 0xfffdead0": : :"memory");
> 128 while (1);
> 129 }
>
> A 'SYSTEM HALT' would really halts the CPU, but SeaBIOS implements
> it as an infinite loop.
>
> If SeaBIOS does not use the expected serial port but another device,
> we might poll the console indefinitely while the machine is halted.
>
> Allow the HPPA machine to 'shutdown'. When it does, we'll get
> a qtest error:
>
> $ make check-qtest-hppa
> TEST check-qtest-hppa: tests/qtest/boot-serial-test
> ** (tests/qtest/boot-serial-test:31924): ERROR **: 01:12:37.604: Failed to
> find expected string. Please check '/tmp/qtest-boot-serial-sjxoM6Q'
> ERROR - Bail out! FATAL-ERROR: Failed to find expected string. Please check
> '/tmp/qtest-boot-serial-sjxoM6Q'
> make: *** [tests/Makefile.include:628: check-qtest-hppa] Error 1
The tests are run with -no-shutdown. Why does qemu exit in that case?
Sounds like a bug in another place, and not in the boot-serial-test.
Thomas
