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

[Ani Sinha]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 9:28 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 08:38:54AM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> > > I don't really care where we upload them but only having the
> > > latest version is just going to break anything expecting
> > > the old binary.
> >
> > In fairness, I am not entirely certain if there is a tight coupling
> > between the qemu tests and the bits binaries. I have written the test
> > framework in a way such that test modifications and new tests can be
> > pushed into the bits binaries and the iso gets regenerated with the
> > new tests from QEMU itself before running the tests. Only when we need
> > bits bugfixes or say upgrade to new acpica that we would need to
> > regenerate the bits binaries.
>
> Theoretically, that's correct. But if we did not have bugs we would
> not need tests.

Hmm, you might have a point. Curious, do we keep versioned binaries of
edk for example? If so, why we can't do the same for bits?