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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"
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To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Tsirkin <mtsirkin@redhat.com>, edk2-devel-01 <edk2-devel@ml01.01.org>, Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>, qemu devel list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "Moore,
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On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:50:07AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 11:16:40AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > I'm excited because for virtualization we might have the reverse use
> > case: use BITS to test / debug / develop the ACPI generator of QEMU. :)
> 
> Awesome.  Unit testing and CI for QEMU sounds like an ideal use case for
> BITS.
[...]
> > But, for simple testing, can we maybe run your tool within the guest,
> > before the runtime OS boots?
> 
> Yes, absolutely.  We have a batch-mode testing mechanism based on a
> config file; you'd probably want to make use of that.  With some
> extensions, it could dump results either to an emulated serial port or
> some other interface that you can read from outside qemu.  We also need
> to work on making the results more machine-parseable for automation.

One other note on that front: if you write new tests for ACPI (see
python/testacpi.py), or new data structure parsers, please feel free to
contribute them back to BITS, and we'll happily run them on non-qemu
systems as well.

- Josh Triplett