On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 07:00:42AM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > On 11/09/2016 02:02 AM, David Gibson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:05:35PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > >> On 11/08/2016 01:36 PM, Thomas Huth wrote: > >>> The new powernv machine ships with a firmware that outputs > >>> some text to the serial console, so we can automatically > >>> test this machine type in the boot-serial tester, too. > >>> And to get some (very limited) test coverage for the new > >>> POWER9 CPU emulation, too, this test is also started with > >>> "-cpu POWER9". > >> > >> and we see the minimum : > >> > >> [8450016,6] CPU: P9 generation processor(max 4 threads/core) > >> > >> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org> > >> > >> > >> > >> With very minimal changes (definition of some SPRs and the use > >> of the SHV mode), the guest would load the kernel. > > > > Applied to ppc-for-2.8. Good to have this basic smoke test for > > powernv. > > yes. qom-test is also starting a powernv guest. > > skiboot has a cool little program called hello_kernel that can be > run in place of the real kernel, but that's beyond the qemu layer > I guess > > For qemu, maybe we could do xscom accesses to test some devices.
That would be good - the qtest framework is basically made for this
sort of thing.
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