On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:48:55AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 07/29/2010 10:43 AM, Roedel, Joerg wrote: > > Another question, is > > there any way to run these tests bare-metal to verify them first on real > > silicon? > > Sure, you can use grub's multiboot capabilities to boot a .flat file. This requires to objcopy them to a binary format first, no? The multiboot spec states that the binaries need to be 32 bit elf files while the .flat files are 64 bit per default. I think I remember that grub checks for that. Anyway, thats an easy thing to do. > Most tests use testdev for the serial port and for the memory size. We > can switch the serial port to a real serial device (or to screen display > via int 10), and query the memory size from the BIOS. Yeah, that would be really helpful. Joerg -- Joerg Roedel - AMD Operating System Research Center Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Einsteinring 24 85609 Dornach General Managers: Alberto Bozzo, Andrew Bowd Registration: Dornach, Landkr. Muenchen; Registerger. Muenchen, HRB Nr. 43632 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
