fwts based tests fail to run on s390x as there is no build of fwts for that arch

[Jeff Lane ]

On a trial run of checkbox on s390x, none of the fwts based tests actually ran. They were all skipped because of missing fwts packages.

Looking at the fwts PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-fwts-stable/+packages
Builds

 amd64
 arm64
 armhf
 i386
 ppc64el

It seems that this is due to the missing build of fwts.

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Valid for the checkbox provider since it does prevent full testing. But also valid for fwts until they build s390x packages.

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

Hi Jeff, just to be 100% clear, which specific arch needs building for s390x?

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Ummm... s390x? That IS the arch, AFAIK.

For example, the Checkbox-dev daily ppa is now built against that as the arch:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/s390x

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Unless there's some subarch I don't know of... All I did when I asked for the builds for cert was ask for them to "enable s390x builds for the Cert PPA"

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

fwts ppa now got s390x arch enabled. I need to get an upload into that PPA, I need to ask HWE for another upload

[Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau)]

Nice, we'll copy the missing packages to our cert ppa.

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Not sure this is necessary since Colin has now added s390x to the FWTS PPA.

Is it more "canonical" to install fwts for cert from the cert PPA or from the FWTS ppa? (Our stuff currently adds the FWTS PPA and installs from there)

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

I've had to re-work a lot of fwts to make it build and pass the ADT regression tests for s390x. Needless to say, there are no relevant ACPI or UEFI tests left in the s390x build of fwts. These changes have been sent to the fwts-devel mailing list for review and should land in fwts 16.03.00.

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Just confirming the fwts version from the FWTS ppa works, I presume the cert PPA will catch up soon if it hasn't already.