[U-Boot] [PATCH v9 06/18] efi: sandbox: Add a simple 'bootefi test' command

[Simon Glass]

Hi Alex,

On 26 August 2018 at 18:58, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 08.08.18 11:54, Simon Glass wrote:
>> This jumps to test code which can call directly into the EFI support. It
>> does not need a separate image so it is easy to write tests with it.
>>
>> This test can be executed without causing problems to the run-time
>> environment (e.g. U-Boot does not need to reboot afterwards).
>>
>> For now the test just outputs a message. To try it:
>>
>> ./sandbox/u-boot -c "bootefi test"
>> U-Boot 2017.09-00204-g696c9855fe (Sep 17 2017 - 16:43:53 -0600)
>>
>> DRAM:  128 MiB
>> MMC:
>> Using default environment
>>
>> In:    serial
>> Out:   serial
>> Err:   serial
>> SCSI:  Net:   No ethernet found.
>> IDE:   Bus 0: not available
>> Found 0 disks
>> WARNING: booting without device tree
>> Hello, world!
>> Test passed
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> I think I'm missing the point of this exercise. What's the problem with
> running the selftest suite? Its set of tests that it runs can be
> configured using an environment variable just fine?

I'm not saying you can't run the selftest suite, but that is for a
different purpose. This is just a sanity check. I'll change the name
to 'ping instead'.

Regards,
Simon