[PATCH v9 03/11] sandbox: Add a -N flag to control on-host behaviour

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 19:14, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 06:52:33PM +0100, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 at 21:14, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 08:22:11PM +0100, Simon Glass wrote:
> > >
> > > > Sandbox is its own architecture, but sometimes we want to mimic the host
> > > > architecture, e.g. when running an EFI app not built by U-Boot.
> > > >
> > > > Add a -N/--native flag which tells sandbox to reflect the architecture
> > > > of the host.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > (no changes since v8)
> > >
> > > I believe Heinrich asked that you invert the logic here and add a flag
> > > for when you need the unexpected behavior.
> >
> > Yes, but that is not correct, unfortunately. The expected behaviour is
> > for CI to use the same filename for its efi apps, no matter what host
> > architecture it is happens to be running on.
> >
> > The use case that Heinrich mentions seems to be broken on x86_64 now,
> > as I mentioned on the other thread, perhaps due to a recently
> > introduced bug in UEFI or QEMU. Just to be clear, this is not a
> > problem with sandbox. I suspect Heinrich will figure that out at some
> > point and then I will be able to try it too. I would also like to run
> > it on sandbox.
> >
> > I hope to get an ARM machine running CI eventually, but I need to get
> > my lab running first.
>
> I talked with Heinrich about this in private and while neither of us
> understand why you want this behavior, we'll stop objecting to it.

OK, good.

Heinrich mentioned that the RISC-V server did not work, for some
reason. But eventually we might have one of those.

I know from my fiddling with 32-bit rpi that even *running* sandbox on
ARM will be a challenge, let alone passing tests, but we'll see.

We should encourage ARM/Linux to set up an ARM runner at some point.

Regards,
Simon