devel/testing/acpi-bits.rst

11 acpica bios interpreter (a freely available C based library written by Intel,
13 operating system getting involved in between. Bios-bits has python integration
15 python instead of bash-ish (grub's native scripting language).
32 bios-bits very attractive for testing bioses. More details on the inspiration
41 author's FOSDEM presentation <FOSDEM_>`__ on this bios-bits based test framework.
45 .. _gitlab: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/biosbits-bits
46 …rg/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2262-exercising-qemu-generated-acpi-smbios-tables-using-biosbit…
52 Under the directory ``tests/functional/``, ``test_acpi_bits.py`` is a QEMU
61    ├── acpi-bits
62    │ ├── bits-config
63    │ │ └── bits-cfg.txt
64    │ ├── bits-tests
83    verbose logs and also retain the temporary work directory the test used for
87    build directory (assuming that the sources are in ".."):
91      $ export QEMU_TEST_QEMU_BINARY=$PWD/qemu-system-x86_64
94    The above will run all acpi-bits functional tests (producing output in
102 * ``tests/functional/acpi-bits/bits-config``:
107    ``bits-config.txt``:
112 * ``tests/functional/acpi-bits/bits-tests``:
114    This directory contains biosbits python based tests that are run from within
120    test that belongs to a test suite not already present in this directory. To
122    https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/biosbits-bits/-/tree/qemu-bits.
123    Note that this is the "qemu-bits" branch and not the "bits" branch of the
124    repository. "qemu-bits" is the branch where we have made all the QEMU
127    or disabling them) from python directory into this directory. For
129    file into this directory and rename it with .py2 extension:
130    https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/biosbits-bits/-/blob/qemu-bits/python/testcpuid.py
133        (a) Copy unmodified test script to this directory from bits source.
147    (a) They are python2.7 based scripts and not python 3 scripts.