[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/kvm-unit-tests: new package

Cyril Bur cyrilbur at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 00:01:50 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 09:24 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:02:36 +1000, Cyril Bur wrote:
> > 
> > The unit tests are tiny guest operating systems that generally
> > execute
> > only tens of lines of C and assembler test code in order to obtain
> > its
> > PASS/FAIL result. Unit tests provide KVM and virt hardware
> > functional
> > testing by targeting the features through minimal implementations
> > of
> > their use per the hardware specification. The simplicity of unit
> > tests
> > make them easy to verify they are correct, easy to maintain, and
> > easy
> > to use in timing measurements. Unit tests are also often used for
> > quick and dirty bug reproducers. The reproducers may then be kept
> > as
> > regression tests. It's strongly encouraged that patches
> > implementing
> > new KVM features are submitted with accompanying unit tests.
> > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM-unit-tests
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>
> 
> This package is causing a good number of build failures. See:
> 
>          arm | kvm-unit-tests-682187afcc99... | NOK | http://autobuil
> d.buildroot.net/results/a81d40f1453ee027c7e2a9da01f482e1d09b464d
>         i686 | kvm-unit-tests-682187afcc99... | NOK | http://autobuil
> d.buildroot.net/results/20efe1e310fe71a587774bbe8490d6357acc8edd
>       x86_64 | kvm-unit-tests-682187afcc99... | NOK | http://autobuil
> d.buildroot.net/results/07deb6183ed23447de5182ee20df6c9c49e5ca49
> 
> Could you have a look and provide patches to address these?
> 

Sure i'll see what appears to be happening.

> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas



More information about the buildroot mailing list