GSoC 2026: MIPS Malta BSP Qemu Support Tester

Programs Google Summer of Code
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So I built the 7/rtems-mips target and being able to run the sample on it. Then I tried to run the general testers. However I didn’t found the desired test .ini and .cfg config for the normal BSP testing (shown in https://docs.rtems.org/docs/main/user/start/bsp-test.html) under https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/tools/rtems-tools/-/tree/main/tester/rtems/testing/bsps?
e.g.

❯ rtems-test --rtems-bsp=malta build/mips/malta

...

error: cannot find bsp configuration file: malta.ini

Do I need to add it by myself like following to the tools repo?

[malta-qemu]
bsp = malta-qemu
arch = mips
tester        = %{_rtscripts}/qemu.cfg
bsp_qemu_opts = %{qemu_opts_base} %{qemu_opts_serial} -M malta
2

Yes, that would be the:

* Add support to RTEMS Tester for this BSP on Qemu

part of the project description.

Are you able to run the BSP on qemu by manually invoking it? That would be the first step, and if it works you should include that as part of your proposal. If it doesn’t run/work, can you attach GDB to qemu and trace how far it gets in the boot process? Discovering where it breaks would be part of determining your plan for how you would proceed with fixing it in the early parts of a GSoC effort.

3

Yes I’m able to run it. So I’m kind of confused what break in the testing part. I tried some of the libtests like block01 to block03, and the results seems ok (but actually I’m not sure about expected output). One exception is qemu will keep running after finished, unliked the erc32 which will exit, and I need to curl-C to terminate.

4

That’s fine then, qemu can be harder to terminate gracefully. The bsp_reset may need to be modified for that to work properly, which can take some research. It can be part of the tasks in this proposal.