Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/4] tests/avocado: ppc: Add smoke tests for MPC7400 and MPC7450 families

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 12/1/21 00:01, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
> These tests ensure that our emulation for these cpus is not completely
> broken and we can at least run OpenBIOS on them.
>
> $ make check-avocado AVOCADO_TESTS=../tests/avocado/ppc_74xx.py
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@linux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
> ---
> Note that the 7450s depend on an OpenBIOS change adding support for
> their PVR:
>
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2021-11/msg00290.html


So we will have to merge the change in openbios first, and then update
openbios in QEMU before merging this patch.

These tests are really useful to track regression and it would be nice
to have a kernel to run because some CPU flavors behave differently under
Linux. It is good start anyhow.

Thanks,

C.