Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 7/7] selftests/nolibc: use EFI -bios for LoongArch qemu

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 07:50:17PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 9:15 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
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>> From: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
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>> [ Upstream commit bdeeeaba83682225a7bf5f100fe8652a59590d33 ]
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>> qemu for LoongArch does not work properly with direct kernel boot.
>> The kernel will panic during initialization and hang without any output.
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>> When booting in EFI mode everything work correctly.
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>> While users most likely don't have the LoongArch EFI binary installed at
>> least an explicit error about 'file not found' is better than a hanging
>> test without output that can never succeed.
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>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/loongarch/1738d60a-df3a-4102-b1da-d16a29b6e06a@t-8ch.de/
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
>> Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231031-nolibc-out-of-tree-v1-1-47c92f73590a@weissschuh.net
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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>>  Makefile | 9 ++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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>This backport makes me upset.
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>The original commit, bdeeeaba83682225a7bf5f100fe8652a59590d33,
>changed tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile.
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>However, this backport changes the top Makefile.
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>What is happening in the back-port logic?

I'm... not entierly sure. This wasn't hand massaged.

I'll drop it from everywhere.

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Thanks,
Sasha