Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] Add a test for serial output (and sort tests by architecture in the Makefile)

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 05:39:37PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Since some of the machines that we support in QEMU sometimes get
> broken by other changes, and it then takes a while 'till somebody
> notices the breakage, it would be nice to get some more automatic
> test coverage for various machines during "make check". The
> second patch adds such a test for the machines where we've got
> a firmware image for and thus can test for some magic strings
> in the serial output of the firmware.
> 
> The first patch is just a clean-up for the Makefile to avoid that
> new tests get added with "=" instead of "+=" (and thus completely
> overwrite the correspond variable by accident).

Anyone have an ideas whose tree this should go through?

I'm happy to take it through mine, if there are no better ideas,
although there's nothing really ppc specific about it.

> 
> v2:
> - Some more clean-ups for the Makefile (i.e. some additional empty
>   lines)
> - Check return value of read() to make sure that there is no error
> 
> Thomas Huth (2):
>   tests: Resort check-qtest entries in Makefile.include
>   tests: Check serial output of firmware boot of some machines
> 
>  tests/Makefile.include   |  46 ++++++++++++++------
>  tests/boot-serial-test.c | 111 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/boot-serial-test.c
> 

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