Re: [PATCH] test: Fix QEMU_EFI.fd not found error on non-ARM platforms

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 18:23:02 +1000
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 10:10:17AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > On Mon,  8 Sep 2025 15:33:09 +0800
> > Yumei Huang <yuhuang@redhat.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Fix the following error when running `make assets` under test on
> > > non-ARM platforms:
> > > 
> > > ./find-arm64-firmware.sh QEMU_EFI.fd
> > > Couldn't find QEMU_EFI.fd
> > > make: *** [Makefile:68: QEMU_EFI.fd] Error 1  
> > 
> > Hmm, wait, this is needed to run ARM guests, but not necessarily on
> > ARM.  
> 
> Right.
> 
> > The test/distro tests (currently skipped) can use QEMU TCG to run ARM
> > guests on (kind of) any host architecture, and actually the only usage
> > I've ever made of find-arm64-firmware.sh is on x86_64.
> > 
> > It still works for me there. On Fedora and related, you need to install
> > the edk2-aarch64 package, and it's qemu-efi-aarch64 on Debian and
> > Debian-based distributions.  
> 
> The firmware package should be installed as a dependency of
> qemu-system-aarch64, which is also necessary to run those ARM TCG
> tests.

It's also mentioned in test/README.md (at least the Debian name for
it).

We should fix that document altogether, because it doesn't mention
'make' under test/ at all. It's on my list, but I didn't start yet, so
it's up for grabs (yes, I should file some more tickets, but I didn't
find a moment for that yet).

-- 
Stefano