Re: [PATCH v6 01/10] acpi/tests/avocado/bits: initial commit of test scripts that are run by biosbits

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> writes:

> 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
>
> Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Maydell Peter <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Cc: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> Cc: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michael Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

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Alex Bennée