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Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] acpi/tests/bits: add python test that exercizes QEM
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] acpi/tests/bits: add python test that exercizes QEMU bios tables using biosbits |
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Wed, 28 Sep 2022 01:53:00 -0400 |
On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 01:10:15AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> Il mer 28 set 2022, 00:09 Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> ha scritto:
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> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 11:44:56PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > I also second the idea of using avocado instead of pytest, by the way.
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> > Paolo
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> I do not think this is a good fit for bios tests.
> bios tests are intended for a wide audience of ACPI developers
> across a variety of host systems. They basically do not need anything
> from the host and they need to be super easy to configure
> since we have lots of drive through contributors.
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> The setup would be the same, with avocado installed in a virtual environment
> via pip. It doesn't need to be set up outside, neither with distro packages
> nor
> in ~/.local, and especially it is not necessary to deal with avocado-vt.
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> Paolo
Hmm, good point.
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MST
Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] acpi/tests/bits: add python test that exercizes QEMU bios tables using biosbits, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/09/27