Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] acpi/tests/bits: add python test that exercizes QEMU bios tables using biosbits

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 07:49:36PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> > so you skip downlaod if it already exists locally. IIUC it is looking
> > in the CWD, which is presumably the directory the QEMU build is
> > performed in ?
> 
> Yes, build/test/pytest/bits-test
> 
> > So if dev cleans their build tree, the cache is lost ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >
> > Avocado has a more persistent cache outside the build tree IIUC.
> >
> 
> So that is why I have the environment variable mechanism for passing to
> the test that will point to the location of the archives. The developer
> can download the files there and point to the test. Or I can change the
> scriprt accordingly if we know where we were downloading. We were
> discussing submodules and it was fiercely hated. So mst suggested another
> repo where to keep the binaries. My script that check out that repo
> somewhere outside the build directory and point the test to that location.
> 
> I have kept several options open. We just need to make some decisions.
> 

For now I would probably just have a script to fetch into source tree.

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MST