On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 03:18:23PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 01:29:10PM +0100, Anders Roxell wrote: > > > With this new config option, we can boot a allmodconfig kernel in qemu. > > Config options SERIAL_AMBA_PL011, SERIAL_AMBA_PL011_CONSOLE, UNIX needs > > to be enabled in order to get a console. Options like CPU_BIG_ENDIAN, > > CMDLINE_FORCE, CMDLINE_OVERRIDE and HVC_DCC needs to be disabled. > > Does ktest really not run with BIG_ENDIAN? > > > +config KTEST_RUNNABLE > > + bool "Test build kernels that run in qemu for ktest" > > + select SERIAL_AMBA_PL011 > > + select SERIAL_AMBA_PL011_CONSOLE > > + select UNIX > > The opposite angle for my question on patch 1 I guess but is this really > a generic thing for running ktest? It seems like it's specific to qemu > (and other systems which have the PL011 as the console serial port).
This is definitely platform-specific rather than ktest specific. If I wanted to run ktest in a kvmtool VM, I would not need PL011 at all, since that uses 8250 and virtio-console. Thanks, Mark.
