Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.0 V3] tests/acpi-test: do not run iasl on big endian machines

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:17:14PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 March 2014 22:06, Marcel Apfelbaum <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 22:57 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> Il 20/03/2014 22:14, Marcel Apfelbaum ha scritto:
> >> > +# All known versions of iasl on BE machines are broken.
> >> > +# TODO: add detection code once a non-broken version makes an 
> >> > appearance.
> >> > +if ($iasl -h > /dev/null 2>&1) &&
> >> > +   (lscpu | grep "Byte Order" | grep --quiet "Little Endian" ); then
> >>
> >> lscpu is not portable.
> > I am open to suggestions...
> 
> echo "trivial iasl source" | iasl --compile-options | iasl
> --disassemble-options | grep "error"
> 
> Fill in the handwaving with actual syntax ;-)
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

True but whatever test we write, it's possible that a buggy iasl
passes it by luck.
Let's wait for a working iasl to appear on some BE machines.
When that happens, we'll be able to write a robust detection script.


-- 
MST