qemu for LoongArch does not work properly with direct kernel boot. The kernel will panic during initialization and hang without any output.
When booting in EFI mode everything work correctly.
While users most likely don't have the LoongArch EFI binary installed at least an explicit error about 'file not found' is better than a hanging test without output that can never succeed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/loongarch/1738d60a-df3a-4102-b1da-d16a29b6e06a@t-8ch... Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh linux@weissschuh.net
--- Note: I'm wondering how this worked for anybody else. --- tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile index af60e07d3c12..258293639572 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ QEMU_ARGS_ppc64 = -M powernv -append "console=hvc0 panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC QEMU_ARGS_ppc64le = -M powernv -append "console=hvc0 panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)" QEMU_ARGS_riscv = -M virt -append "console=ttyS0 panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)" QEMU_ARGS_s390 = -M s390-ccw-virtio -m 1G -append "console=ttyS0 panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)" -QEMU_ARGS_loongarch = -M virt -append "console=ttyS0,115200 panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)" +QEMU_ARGS_loongarch = -M virt -append "console=ttyS0,115200 panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)" -bios /usr/share/edk2/loongarch64/OVMF_CODE.fd QEMU_ARGS = $(QEMU_ARGS_$(XARCH)) $(QEMU_ARGS_EXTRA)
# OUTPUT is only set when run from the main makefile, otherwise