Hi Heinrich,

On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 13:56, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 9/8/22 20:18, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Heinrich,
> >
> > On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 09:53, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 9/6/22 23:18, Simon Glass wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 2 Sept 2022 at 08:22, Masahisa Kojima
> >>> <masahisa.koj...@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Provide a unit test for the eficonfig command.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Masahisa Kojima <masahisa.koj...@linaro.org>
> >>>> Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodi...@linaro.org>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> No update since v15
> >>>>
> >>>> Changes in v14:
> >>>> - update to support media device enumeration in eficonfig startup
> >>>> - move no block device test to the last test case
> >>>>
> >>>> Changes in v12:
> >>>> - update menu handling
> >>>>
> >>>> Changes in v11:
> >>>> - fix expected result when no BootOrder is defined
> >>>>
> >>>> Newly added in v10
> >>>>
> >>>>    configs/sandbox_defconfig                     |   1 +
> >>>>    test/py/tests/test_eficonfig/conftest.py      |  40 ++
> >>>>    .../py/tests/test_eficonfig/test_eficonfig.py | 350 ++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>    3 files changed, 391 insertions(+)
> >>>>    create mode 100644 test/py/tests/test_eficonfig/conftest.py
> >>>>    create mode 100644 test/py/tests/test_eficonfig/test_eficonfig.py
> >>>
> >>> How come this is written in Python? Shouldn't it be in C?
> >>
> >> We need to prepare an image for testing and provide it to U-Boot.
> >>
> >> This cannot be done with C.
> >
> > We do that now with the bootstd tests. Please see setup_bootflow_image().
>
> setup_bootflow_image() uses sudo. For security reasons I don't like to
> provide root privileges to other people's code. Distributions don't like
> their builders to run with root privileges. Please, use virt-make-fs
> instead.

I do agree, but then don't we need to chmod a+r the current kernel? Is
there a way around that?

Regards,
Simon

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