Re: [PATCH 1/5] tests/boot_linux_console: Add initrd test for the Exynos4210

[Guenter Roeck]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 05:49:07PM -0400, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 05:28:49PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 at 16:47, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > This test boots a Linux kernel on a smdkc210 board and verify
> > > the serial output is working.
> > >
> > > The cpio image used comes from the linux-build-test project:
> > > https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test
> > 
> > Thanks for putting this test case together, very helpful.
> > 
> > > +        initrd_url = ('https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/raw/'
> > > +                      '2eb0a73b5d5a28df3170c546ddaaa9757e1e0848/rootfs/'
> > > +                      'arm/rootfs-armv5.cpio.gz')
> > 
> > Do our other acceptance tests download random third-party
> > (ie "not a well-known distro") binaries for the tests ?
> > It seems a bit hazardous for reproducability and trustability
> > reasons...
> > 

FWIW, the root file system was generated with buildroot, with
minor modifications. It should be possible to create a clean
root file system from there.

Guenter