Re: [PATCH v1 2/8] tests/avocado: update aarch64_virt test to exercise -cpu max

[Richard Henderson]

On 3/15/22 05:12, Alex Bennée wrote:
> The Fedora 29 kernel is quite old and importantly fails when running
> in LPA2 scenarios. As it's not really exercising much of the CPU space
> replace it with a custom 5.16.12 kernel with all the architecture
> options turned on. There is a minimal buildroot initramfs included in
> the kernel which has a few tools for stress testing the memory
> subsystem. The userspace also targets the Neoverse N1 processor so
> will fail without additional v8.x+ features.

Maybe better as "would fail with a v8.0 cpu like cortex-a53"?
The way it is worded now suggests it won't work at all at present, since we don't 
completely support all features of the neoverse-n1.

> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Message-Id: <20220307172249.3125779-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

>  (04/32) 
> tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_aarch64_virt: PASS 
> (3.66 s)

Tested-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>


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