Biosbits is a software written by Josh Triplett that can be downloaded by visiting https://biosbits.org/. The github codebase can be found here: https://github.com/biosbits/bits/tree/master. It is a software that exercizes the bios components such as acpi and smbios tables directly through acpica bios interpreter (a freely available C based library written by Intel, downloadable from https://acpica.org/ and is included with biosbits) without an operating system getting involved in between. There are several advantages to directly testing the bios in a real physical machine or VM as opposed to indirectly discovering bios issues through the operating system. For one thing, the OSes tend to hide bios problems from the end user. The other is that we have more control of what we wanted to test and how by directly using acpica interpreter on top of the bios on a running system. More details on the inspiration for developing biosbits and its real life uses can be found in (a) and (b). This patchset contains QEMU qtests written in python that exercizes the QEMU bios components using biosbits and reports test failures.
Details of each of the files added by this patchset are provided in the README file which is part of Patch 11. Every effort to contact Josh, through various means including email, twitter, linkedIn etc has failed. Hence, the changes to build biosbits with the newer compiler, upgrade acpica and other changes are currently maintained in a forked project in my personal github. We may want to maintain bits in a separate fork in a stable repository that is accessible by QEMU developers. The newly introduced qtest currently only run for x86_64 platform. They pass both when running make check on a baremetal box as well as from inside a vm. Thanks to Igor M for pointing me to this work. (a) https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2011/ocw/system/presentations/867/original/bits.pdf (b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36QIepyUuhg Ani Sinha (12): qtest: meson.build changes required to integrate python based qtests acpi/tests/bits: add prebuilt bios bits zip archive acpi/tests/bits: add prebuilt bits generated grub modules and scripts acpi/tests/bits: initial commit of test scripts that are run by biosbits acpi/tests/bits: disable acpi PSS tests that are failing in biosbits acpi/tests/bits: add smilatency test suite from bits in order to disable it acpi/tests/bits: disable smilatency test since it does not pass everytime acpi/tests/bits: add biosbits config file for running bios tests acpi/tests/bits: add acpi and smbios python tests that uses biosbits acpi/tests/bits: add acpi bits qtest directory in meson for running tests acpi/tests/bits: add README file for bits qtests MAINTAINERS: add myself as the maintainer for acpi biosbits qtests MAINTAINERS | 5 + tests/qtest/acpi-bits/README | 168 ++ tests/qtest/acpi-bits/acpi-bits-test-venv.sh | 59 + tests/qtest/acpi-bits/acpi-bits-test.py | 327 +++ .../qtest/acpi-bits/bits-config/bits-cfg.txt | 18 + tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-config/meson.build | 11 + tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-tests/meson.build | 11 + tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-tests/smbios.py | 2430 +++++++++++++++++ .../qtest/acpi-bits/bits-tests/smilatency.py | 103 + tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-tests/testacpi.py | 283 ++ tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-tests/testcpuid.py | 83 + tests/qtest/acpi-bits/meson.build | 39 + .../acpi-bits/prebuilt/bits-2095-grub.tar.gz | Bin 0 -> 41416278 bytes tests/qtest/acpi-bits/prebuilt/bits-2095.zip | Bin 0 -> 31922898 bytes tests/qtest/acpi-bits/prebuilt/meson.build | 11 + tests/qtest/acpi-bits/requirements.txt | 1 + tests/qtest/meson.build | 7 +- 17 files changed, 3555 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/README create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/acpi-bits-test-venv.sh create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/acpi-bits-test.py create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-config/bits-cfg.txt create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-config/meson.build create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-tests/meson.build create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-tests/smbios.py create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-tests/smilatency.py create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-tests/testacpi.py create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/bits-tests/testcpuid.py create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/meson.build create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/prebuilt/bits-2095-grub.tar.gz create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/prebuilt/bits-2095.zip create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/prebuilt/meson.build create mode 100644 tests/qtest/acpi-bits/requirements.txt -- 2.25.1
