Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/10] pc, pci, virtio: fixes for rc1

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 16.11.2017 15:41, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 15 November 2017 at 18:17, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>> The following changes since commit 1fa0f627d03cd0d0755924247cafeb42969016bf:
>>
>>   Update version for v2.11.0-rc1 release (2017-11-14 18:37:49 +0000)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/mst/qemu.git tags/for_upstream
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to 6ed0c1c3ab0925009d15cffb944d9ccb04718846:
>>
>>   build-sys: restrict vmcoreinfo to fw_cfg+dma capable targets (2017-11-15 20:13:13 +0200)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> pc, pci, virtio: fixes for rc1
>>
>> A bunch of fixes all over the place.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> 
> Hi. This failed tests on a couple of machines:
> 
> s390x:
> 
> TEST: tests/bios-tables-test... (pid=58925)
>   /i386/acpi/piix4:
> Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT'
> 
> Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT'
> 
> Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/APIC'
> 
> Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/APIC'
> 
> Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/HPET'
> 
> Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/HPET'
> 'iasl -p /tmp/asl-CHIM9Y.dsl -d tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT' exited
> with status 65280
> Intel ACPI Component Architecture
> ASL+ Optimizing Compiler version 20160108-64
> Copyright (c) 2000 - 2016 Intel Corporation
> 
> Could not get ACPI tables from tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT, AE_BAD_HEADER
> Input file tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT, Length 0x1418 (5144) bytes
> Table [DSDT] is too long for file - needs: 0x18140000, remaining in file: 0x1418
> **
> ERROR:/home/linux1/qemu/tests/bios-tables-test.c:461:test_acpi_asl:
> assertion failed: (!err && !exp_err)

That likely means that either iasl does not contain the right endianess
fixes yet (which OS are you using there?), or you need my patch here:

 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-11/msg03007.html

No clue about the arm issue, though.

 Thomas