Hi,
So over the last couple of days I have been looking into the test suites we currently have available in the leg-kernel CI/test cycle and come to the following conclusions.
1) aapits - tests the core of the acpica code, does not test anything in the kernel or the BIOS. Is unmaintained by acpica folks and Tomasz patches have sat idle on bug tracker for 3/4 of a year. This test suite does not test anything we are interested in I propose we drop it from CI.
2) acpica-tools - tests the iasl compiler, is run on every tools packaging for rpm/deb. I suggest the tools CI/packaging cycles are a better location for these tests and we drop them from CI
3) acpi-smoke-test - This is the basic test that we booted from ACPI, I think this is useful to keep as a quick getout of testing if it fails.
4) FWTS - current target of our testing for BIOS testing. This we keep.
So I am suggesting we only have tests that exercise the kernel or BIOS in some manner. We are still lacking in tests that exercise the kernel but I have no idea what these tests should be at current time.
Thanks
Graeme