Almost all distributions provide qemu-system-$(XARCH), their firmwares and qemu-$(XARCH), but for the new riscv and loongarch, users may still need to download external firmwares or compile qemu from scratch, let's add some notes about them. Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile index 9cd6dc0e8b75..1e92bb5138db 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile @@ -100,6 +100,18 @@ DEFCONFIG = $(DEFCONFIG_$(XARCH)) TEST = # QEMU_ARCH: arch names used by qemu +# +# Notes: +# - qemu-system of riscv may require latest firmware from +# https://github.com/riscv-software-src/opensbi/releases/ +# - qemu-system of loongarch may require latest firmware from +# https://github.com/loongson/Firmware/tree/main/LoongArchVirtMachine +# +# If qemu-$(XARCH) or qemu-system-$(XARCH) is missing from software repository, +# please compile them with help from https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation +# +# To specify a firmware, please pass QEMU_ARGS_EXTRA="-bios dir/to/firmware" + QEMU_ARCH_i386 = i386 QEMU_ARCH_x86_64 = x86_64 QEMU_ARCH_x86 = x86_64 @@ -114,7 +126,7 @@ QEMU_ARCH_s390 = s390x QEMU_ARCH_loongarch = loongarch64 QEMU_ARCH = $(QEMU_ARCH_$(XARCH)) -# QEMU_ARGS : some arch-specific args to pass to qemu +# QEMU_ARGS: some arch-specific args to pass to qemu QEMU_ARGS_i386 = -M pc -append "console=ttyS0,9600 i8042.noaux panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)" QEMU_ARGS_x86_64 = -M pc -append "console=ttyS0,9600 i8042.noaux panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)" QEMU_ARGS_x86 = -M pc -append "console=ttyS0,9600 i8042.noaux panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)" -- 2.25.1
