On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:48:55AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/29/2010 10:43 AM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> > Another question, is
> > there any way to run these tests bare-metal to verify them first on real
> > silicon?
>
> Sure, you can use grub's multiboot capabilities to boot a .flat file.
This requires to objcopy them to a binary format first, no? The
multiboot spec states that the binaries need to be 32 bit elf files
while the .flat files are 64 bit per default. I think I remember that
grub checks for that. Anyway, thats an easy thing to do.
> Most tests use testdev for the serial port and for the memory size. We
> can switch the serial port to a real serial device (or to screen display
> via int 10), and query the memory size from the BIOS.
Yeah, that would be really helpful.
Joerg
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