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authorThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>2016-06-14 15:57:56 +0200
committerDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>2016-06-17 15:57:59 +1000
commitfcbf4a3c0c576eec1321f9cff4fa0dd8e0b1a82f (patch)
tree62b8cb2b380c5d5a9be290dacdf6bcffee42c781 /scripts
parenta1aa1309892581972b5019ef65fd0a12cd69cc28 (diff)
ppc / sparc: Add a tester for checking whether OpenBIOS runs successfully
Since the mac99 and g3beige PowerPC machines recently broke without being noticed, it would be good to have a tester for "make check" that detects such issues immediately. A simple way to test the firmware of these machines is to use the "-prom-env" parameter of QEMU. This parameter can be used to put some Forth code into the 'boot-command' firmware variable which then can signal success to the tester by writing a magic value to a known memory location. And since some of the Sparc machines are also using OpenBIOS, they are now tested with this prom-env-tester, too. Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> [dwg: Removed sparc64, because it trips a TCG bug on 32-bit hosts] Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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