Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 5/5] selftests/nolibc: use EFI -bios for LoongArch qemu

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Jan 16 2024 - 05:52:10 EST


On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 9:15 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit bdeeeaba83682225a7bf5f100fe8652a59590d33 ]






>
> qemu for LoongArch does not work properly with direct kernel boot.
> The kernel will panic during initialization and hang without any output.
>
> When booting in EFI mode everything work correctly.
>
> While users most likely don't have the LoongArch EFI binary installed at
> least an explicit error about 'file not found' is better than a hanging
> test without output that can never succeed.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/loongarch/1738d60a-df3a-4102-b1da-d16a29b6e06a@xxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231031-nolibc-out-of-tree-v1-1-47c92f73590a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Makefile | 9 ++++++++-


Same for the AUTOSEL 5.4.






> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index fc7bc81130dc..40c860f1c0a3 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -548,6 +548,13 @@ ifeq ($(config-targets),1)
> # *config targets only - make sure prerequisites are updated, and descend
> # in scripts/kconfig to make the *config target
>
> +QEMU_BIOS_DIR = /usr/share/edk2/
> +QEMU_BIOS_loongarch = $(QEMU_BIOS_DIR)/loongarch64/OVMF_CODE.fd
> +
> +ifneq ($(QEMU_BIOS_$(XARCH)),)
> +QEMU_ARGS_BIOS = -bios $(QEMU_BIOS_$(XARCH))
> +endif
> +
> # Read arch specific Makefile to set KBUILD_DEFCONFIG as needed.
> # KBUILD_DEFCONFIG may point out an alternative default configuration
> # used for 'make defconfig'
> @@ -1303,7 +1310,7 @@ _modinst_:
> fi
> @cp -f $(objtree)/modules.order $(MODLIB)/
> @cp -f $(objtree)/modules.builtin $(MODLIB)/
> - $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modinst
> + $(Q)$(MAKE) $(QEMU_ARGS_BIOS) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modinst
>
> # This depmod is only for convenience to give the initial
> # boot a modules.dep even before / is mounted read-write. However the
> --
> 2.43.0
>


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Best Regards

Masahiro Yamada