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| author | Thomas Huth | 2016-06-14 15:57:56 +0200 |
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| committer | David Gibson | 2016-06-17 07:57:59 +0200 |
| commit | fcbf4a3c0c576eec1321f9cff4fa0dd8e0b1a82f (patch) | |
| tree | 62b8cb2b380c5d5a9be290dacdf6bcffee42c781 /docs/memory-hotplug.txt | |
| parent | hw/ppc/spapr: Silence deprecation message in qtest mode (diff) | |
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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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