Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/8] tests: apci: consolidate and cleanup ACPI test code

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:11:23PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 2018-12-27 15:13, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > Changes since v1:
> >   * rebase on top of current master due to a lots of conflicts with
> >     'qtest global' removal being merged first
> 
> Sorry for that ... I hope it was not too much trouble!
> 
> >   * drop explicit cast to uint8_t* as sdt->aml is uint8_t* now
> >   * drop not comment explaining strange offsets as offsets are
> >     now follow ACPI spec
> > 
> > While working on adding tests for virt/arm board (uefi/XSDT/64-bit table pointers),
> > I found it's rather difficult to deal with mixed ACPI testing code that we've
> > collected so far. So instead of just adding a pile of XSDT hacks on top, here
> > goes small refactoring series:
> >    * that removes dead code
> >    * replaces reading tables with a fetch per table everywhere instead of
> >      mix of field by field and whole table
> >    * consolidates the way tables are read (reduces code duplication)
> >    * test no longer depends on ACPI structures from QEMU (i.e. doesn't affected
> >      by mistakes there) 
> >    * fixes FACS not being compared against reference tables
> > Overall test is reduced on ~160LOC and hopefully it makes easier to follow and
> > add more stuff on top.
> > 
> > PS:
> > arm/virt test patches fill follow up a separate series on top of this one
> > for not to mix things up
> > 
> > Git tree for testing:
> >   https://github.com/imammedo/qemu acpi_tests_cleanup_v2
> > 
> > CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> > CC: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> 
> Do you want me to take this through the qtests tree, or will you take it
> through your ACPI tree?
> 
> In the latter case, FWIW:
> Acked-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

I'll merge it, thanks for the ack!