This test is an easy way to make sure that at least QEMU's SeaBIOS
images work fine.
When designing the GRUB test my intent was mostly to test the grub.cfg
file and also enable further automatic testing to help catch issues
when improving the GRUB configuration.
However since the build system inherited from Libreboot 20220710 is
extremely fragile, and that GNU Boot also starts having the
infrastructure to build on more and more distributions with different
compiler versions (we now supports 2 Trisquel version and 1 PureOS
version), with setups variations (work is ongoing to add support for
building in chroots), it might be a good thing to check if SeaBIOS
works.
This would also catch bugs like bug #66487 ("RC4: All SeaBIOS images
are broken") [1] where the SeaBIOS payload was missing in all images,
however it would not catch situations where SeaBIOS is present in QEMU
images but missing in other images, so different tests must be done
for that situation. In addition it would be costly just to boot a VM
to check for missing files.
[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66487
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The build system was designed to produce images with different GPU
drivers for a single computer and/or to show the image name in the
final image names, to enable users to know which GPU driver was used.
However since all boards have practically speaking the same GPU driver
('libgfxinit') this adds too much complexity for almost no benefits.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Without that fix we have the following build error on Trisquel when
qemu-utils is not installed:
successfully built /gnu/store/[...]-gnuboot-trisquel-preseed.img-07-2024.drv
resources/packages/roms/download: line 175: qemu-img: command not found
make: *** [Makefile:713: release] Error 127
An option would be to make sure that the host has qemu_img by adding
its corresponding packages in resources/dependencies/ and to check for
it in configure.ac, but since we already build the qemu with Guix,
it's easier to just reuse that, and this also gives us less
maintenance in the long run.
This was broken by the commit 9cc02ddde1
("packages: roms: Start adding automatic tests.").
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The resources/packages/roms/boot script already work with the "help"
argument, however most of the other scripts use --help, so for
consistency we need to add --help as well.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
In GNU Boot, at the time of writing, we want to advise users to use
the GRUB images as they don't require users to modify their
distribtions.
However before the commit aec2e2f2bcf7693a05e416f9722e15b9d1854516
("Fix bug #65663 (No support for LVM2)."), most computers using LVM2
would not boot with these images.
The bug is now fixed by this commit, however since we ship a custom
grub.cfg and that it is very important to get it right, it's a good
idea to have some sort of automated testing for it.
It uses Trisquel (instead of other FSF certified distributions) for
several reasons:
- Trisquel can be used by less technical users, and so it's important
to make sure it works as less technical users tend to have harder
times finding workaround when things break.
- It's probably the GNU/Linux distribution that most current and
potential GNU Boot users use.
- It is also maintained by a community that welcome contributions, so
if we hit some issues, we can also contribute to get it fixed (we
also verified that multiple times by contributing to it).
Note that we also welcome tests that reuse other distributions as
well.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
neox: fixed typos in the commit message and fixed copyright notice
Acked-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The xz compression operation can be quite long, so it's a good idea to
show its progression.
To do that we need to produce a tarball file first as xz doesn't have
any idea of the progression when just compressing a piped stream of
data.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
For some reason, 'make release' produces the following files:
- release/roms/gnuboot-lbwww-20211122-328-gafe01fb_default.tar.xz
- release/roms/gnuboot-lbwww-20211122-328-gafe01fb_fam15h_rdimm.tar.xz
- release/roms/gnuboot-lbwww-20211122-328-gafe01fb_fam15h_udimm.tar.xz
This commit works around that issue.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Without that fix we have the following issue on PureOS byzantium:
$ resources/packages/coreboot/distclean
resources/packages/coreboot/distclean: 19:
resources/packages/coreboot/../../scripts/tasks/distclean.sh:
Bad substitution
resources/packages/coreboot/distclean: 20: .:
cannot open /../../..//resources/scripts/misc/sysexits.sh:
No such file
This happens because packages/coreboot/distclean uses #!/bin/sh and
that the default sh shell isn't using bash:
$ readlink $(which sh)
dash
and using bash instead works fine:
$ bash resources/packages/coreboot/distclean ; echo $?
0
all the other distclean scripts in packages/*/ have exactly the same
issue. The tests/distlean script is also affected since it also
sources the distclean task.
So we use #!/usr/bin/env bash as it work with both Guix and regular
more or less FHS compliant distributions.
This issue was introduced by the commit
c7e28dc660 ("packages: Add distclean").
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This can simplify the overal structure of GNU Boot as we don't need to
compute some git tag everytime in the code.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The various scripts present in GNU Boot are very fragile, so it's a
good idea to have a pristine GNU Boot source code for making releases.
The issue is that 'git clean -dfx' doesn't remove existing git
repositories like coreboot/ grub/ etc, so we need additional code to
take care of that.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The various build scripts are scattered around in multiple
places. This make it hard for contributors to understand what they
need to modify.
Most GNU Boot users are interested in running GNU/Linux or BSD
operating systems. And the way to install software on these
operating systems is through a package manager. So most users and
contributors already know the package manager abstraction.
So using that abstraction makes it easier to find where things are.
The scripts to install dependencies don't really fit the new structure
but for now we move them in to make sure that everything works
fine. This could be fixed later on and migrated to a single
dependencies packages by auto-detecting the distribution with
/etc/os-release.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
