[PATCH 09/12] sbbr/spcr: Add initial tests to spcr acpi table as per sbbr.
Supreeth Venkatesh
supreeth.venkatesh at arm.com
Mon Mar 6 18:03:19 UTC 2017
On Thu, 2017-03-02 at 23:54 +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Again, this seems to be a duplication of the fwts spcr test, why the
> duplication?
>
Yes. There is some code reused. To segregate all SBBR tests in one
place, this has been done. If it's a maintainability issue, please
suggest whether to use pre-compiler switch "FWTS_HAS_SBBR" in existing
file.
> 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 spcr
> > acpi
> > table. These test cases may be subset/superset of spcr acpi table
> > tests
> > already existing. However, to preserve "sbbr" classification, new
> > file
> > is created, even when most of the code is re-used from acpi/spcr.
> > It adds additional tests including revision check and GSIV check
> > tests.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Supreeth Venkatesh <supreeth.venkatesh at arm.com>
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