From: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] test: verify that the emulator honours svm intercepts
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:59:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100729075953.GK26098@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C513267.9020306@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:48:55AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/29/2010 10:43 AM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> > Another question, is
> > there any way to run these tests bare-metal to verify them first on real
> > silicon?
>
> Sure, you can use grub's multiboot capabilities to boot a .flat file.
This requires to objcopy them to a binary format first, no? The
multiboot spec states that the binaries need to be 32 bit elf files
while the .flat files are 64 bit per default. I think I remember that
grub checks for that. Anyway, thats an easy thing to do.
> Most tests use testdev for the serial port and for the memory size. We
> can switch the serial port to a real serial device (or to screen display
> via int 10), and query the memory size from the BIOS.
Yeah, that would be really helpful.
Joerg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-29 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 16:25 [PATCH 0/6] svm intercept tests Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] test: add scratch word for use by svm tests Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 2/6] test: add intercepted and unintercepted cr3 read tests for svm Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 3/6] test: add pause() instruction accessor Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 4/6] test: add cli() and sti() instruction accessors Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 5/6] test: ensure svm tests are executed with interrupts disabled by default Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 6/6] test: verify that the emulator honours svm intercepts Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 18:04 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-29 7:43 ` Roedel, Joerg
2010-07-29 7:48 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-29 7:59 ` Roedel, Joerg [this message]
2010-07-29 8:45 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-29 8:16 ` [PATCH 0/6] svm intercept tests Roedel, Joerg
2010-07-29 21:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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