On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 2:43 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On 14/10/22 19:34, Ani Sinha wrote: > > This is initial commit of cpuid, acpi and smbios python test scripts for > > biosbits to execute. No change has been made to them from the original code > > written by the biosbits author Josh Triplett. They are required to be > > installed > > into the bits iso file and then run from within the virtual machine booted > > off > > with biosbits iso. > > > > The test scripts have a ".py2" extension in order to prevent avocado from > > loading them. They are written in python 2.7 and are run from within bios > > bits. > > There is no need for avocado to try to load them and call out errors on > > python3 > > specific syntaxes. > > > > The original location of these tests are here: > > https://github.com/biosbits/bits/blob/master/python/testacpi.py > > https://github.com/biosbits/bits/blob/master/python/smbios.py > > https://github.com/biosbits/bits/blob/master/python/testcpuid.py > > > > For QEMU, we maintain a fork of the above repo here with numerious fixes: > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/biosbits-bits > > > > The acpi test for example is maintained here in the fork: > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/biosbits-bits/-/raw/master/python/testacpi.py > > I missed the previous iterations of this series, and wonder why copy > these files in QEMU repository if they already are in a forked > repository. Why not add the fork as a submodule?
Check the thread "Why we should avoid new submodules if possible" in the mailing list.
