On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 10:10:17AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:

On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 15:33:09 +0800 Yumei Huang wrote:

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Fix the following error when running `make assets` under test on non-ARM platforms:

./find-arm64-firmware.sh QEMU_EFI.fd Couldn't find QEMU_EFI.fd make: *** [Makefile:68: QEMU_EFI.fd] Error 1

Hmm, wait, this is needed to run ARM guests, but not necessarily on ARM.

Right.

The test/distro tests (currently skipped) can use QEMU TCG to run ARM guests on (kind of) any host architecture, and actually the only usage I've ever made of find-arm64-firmware.sh is on x86_64.

It still works for me there. On Fedora and related, you need to install the edk2-aarch64 package, and it's qemu-efi-aarch64 on Debian and Debian-based distributions.

The firmware package should be installed as a dependency of qemu-system-aarch64, which is also necessary to run those ARM TCG tests. Since this is only used by the distro tests, we could also disable this for the time being, with the intent to bring it back with the rest of the distro images. However, unlike the distro images it's much easier and quicker to install, so there's not so much incentive. -- David Gibson (he or they) | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you, not the other way | around. http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson

On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 18:23:02 +1000 David Gibson wrote:

On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 10:10:17AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:

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On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 15:33:09 +0800 Yumei Huang wrote:

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Fix the following error when running `make assets` under test on non-ARM platforms:

./find-arm64-firmware.sh QEMU_EFI.fd Couldn't find QEMU_EFI.fd make: *** [Makefile:68: QEMU_EFI.fd] Error 1

Hmm, wait, this is needed to run ARM guests, but not necessarily on ARM.

Right.

...

The test/distro tests (currently skipped) can use QEMU TCG to run ARM guests on (kind of) any host architecture, and actually the only usage I've ever made of find-arm64-firmware.sh is on x86_64.

It still works for me there. On Fedora and related, you need to install the edk2-aarch64 package, and it's qemu-efi-aarch64 on Debian and Debian-based distributions.

The firmware package should be installed as a dependency of qemu-system-aarch64, which is also necessary to run those ARM TCG tests.

It's also mentioned in test/README.md (at least the Debian name for it). We should fix that document altogether, because it doesn't mention 'make' under test/ at all. It's on my list, but I didn't start yet, so it's up for grabs (yes, I should file some more tickets, but I didn't find a moment for that yet). -- Stefano