[PATCH 11/12] sbbr/method: Add initial tests to acpi method tests as per sbbr.
Supreeth Venkatesh
supreeth.venkatesh at arm.com
Mon Mar 6 17:39:59 UTC 2017
On Thu, 2017-03-02 at 23:57 +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> This is duplication of the fwts method test. What's the
> justification?
> Cut-n-paste duplication makes maintenance really hard work.
Please suggest alternate method from maintainability aspect.
I could actually use "FWTS_HAS_SBBR" Pre-Compiler Switch to
differentiate from the normal flow, but then again it wont be nicely
separated and all sbbr test cases will not be in one place.
Please suggest and I will make changes as per your feedback.
>
> On 02/03/17 22:26, Supreeth Venkatesh wrote:
> >
> > Server Base Boot Requirements (SBBR) specification is intended for
> > SBSA-
> > compliant 64-bit ARMv8 servers.
> > It defines the base firmware requirements for out-of-box support of
> > any
> > ARM SBSA-compatible Operating System or hypervisor.
> > The requirements in this specification are expected to be minimal
> > yet
> > complete for booting a multi-core ARMv8 server platform, while
> > leaving
> > plenty of room for OEM or ODM innovations and design details.
> > For more information, download the SBBR specification here:
> > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.den0044
> > b/index.html
> >
> > This change introduces test cases as per SBBR specification to acpi
> > method tests. These test cases may be subset/superset of acpi
> > method
> > tests already existing. However, to preserve "sbbr" classification,
> > new
> > file is created, even when most of the code is re-used from
> > acpi/method.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Supreeth Venkatesh <supreeth.venkatesh at arm.com>
> > ---
> >
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