Re: [PATCH 0/2] selftests/nolibc: small simplification of test development phase

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Jan 23 2023 - 11:47:28 EST


On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 10:34:55PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 12:00:38PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > There's no matter of urgency for these patches, they're just a bit of
> > > user-friendly stuff. As such, if you're fine with stacking them on top of
> > > what you already have for 6.3, that will be great, otherwise they can
> > > easily wait.
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> > > Willy
> >
> > Nice, thank you!
> >
> > I have these placed on top of the -rcu "dev" branch initially for further
> > review and testing. If things go well over the next week or so, I will
> > set it up for the upcoming merge window.
>
> Thanks!
>
> > One dependency is of course qemu-x86_64, so in the meantime I will figure
> > out where I get that from. ;-)
>
> I build it from time to time from the sources, it's not that long and
> normally doesn't reserve me any surprises. But if you have it for other
> platforms it's likely that you have it for most platforms as well,
> including this one.

And building from sources proved to be reasonably easy, so the test
now passes for me. My initial thought of putting qemu-x86_64 into
my ~/bin directory fails the sudo test, but putting it into /usr/bin
works fine.

Thank you for the hints!

Should I add a sentence to the commit log noting the potential need to
build qemu from the git repo and to install qemu-x86_64, give or take
what architecture one is running?

Thanx, Paul