On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:22 PM Ani Sinha <a...@anisinha.ca> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:14 PM Ani Sinha <a...@anisinha.ca> wrote: > > > > 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 > > Doh, sending the patch series failed since google won't allow file > sizes larger than 25 MB. The bits prebuilt binaries have sizes 30 MB > and 40 MB in two separate patches :(
I have pushed the patchset here: https://gitlab.com/anisinha/qemu/-/commits/acpi-bits . > > > > > 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 > >
