Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc / sparc: Add a tester for checking whether OpenBIOS runs successfully

2016-06-14 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 14/06/16 12:04, Thomas Huth wrote: > 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"

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc / sparc: Add a tester for checking whether OpenBIOS runs successfully

2016-06-14 Thread Thomas Huth
On 14.06.2016 13:31, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Thomas Huth writes: >[...] >> diff --git a/tests/prom-env-test.c b/tests/prom-env-test.c >> new file mode 100644 >> index 000..b4d5d68 >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/tests/prom-env-test.c >> @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ >> +/* >> + * Test

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc / sparc: Add a tester for checking whether OpenBIOS runs successfully

2016-06-14 Thread Markus Armbruster
Thomas Huth writes: > 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"

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc / sparc: Add a tester for checking whether OpenBIOS runs successfully

2016-06-14 Thread Thomas Huth
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