Lines Matching refs:a
7 Biosbits is a software written by Josh Triplett that can be downloaded
9 `here <https://github.com/biosbits/bits/tree/master>`__. It is a software that
11 acpica bios interpreter (a freely available C based library written by Intel,
16 There are several advantages to directly testing the bios in a real physical
17 machine or in a VM as opposed to indirectly discovering bios issues through the
20 how by being as close to the bios on a running system as possible without a
28 written using a high level scripting language such as python. OSes and
30 low level assembly machine language. Writing test routines in a low level
33 for developing biosbits and its real life uses can be found in [#a]_ and [#b]_.
35 For QEMU, we maintain a fork of bios bits in gitlab along with all the
37 This fork contains numerous fixes, a newer acpica and changes specific to
41 …2024-2262-exercising-qemu-generated-acpi-smbios-tables-using-biosbits-from-within-a-guest-vm-/>`__.
47 Under the directory ``tests/avocado/``, ``acpi-bits.py`` is a QEMU avocado
68 This is the main python avocado test script that generates a
69 biosbits iso. It then spawns a QEMU VM with it, collects the log and reports
71 to add or change some component of the log parsing, add a new command line
126 test so that it gets executed as a part of the ACPI tests.
127 It might be occasionally necessary to disable some subtests or add a new
128 test that belongs to a test suite not already present in this directory. To
141 (a) Copy unmodified test script to this directory from bits source.
142 (b) Add a SPDX license header.
145 Commits (a), (b) and (c) preferably should go under separate commits so that
147 clear. (a) and (b) can sometimes be combined into a single step.
155 (a) They are python2.7 based scripts and not python 3 scripts.
165 .. [#a] https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2011/ocw/system/presentations/867/original/bits.pdf
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