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Sct-Next': SCT For Modern Platforms

The document discusses plans to update the UEFI SCT (Self Certification Test) framework to a new "sct-next" version. It outlines steps taken to clean up and modernize the code, such as removing dead code, dependencies on legacy packages, and improving performance. Results showed parity with the original version, bugs found and fixed, and limitations documented. Future plans include full removal of dependencies and expanding test coverage to additional specs. Contributions from UEFI members will be needed to finalize and release the next official SCT version.

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Sct-Next': SCT For Modern Platforms

The document discusses plans to update the UEFI SCT (Self Certification Test) framework to a new "sct-next" version. It outlines steps taken to clean up and modernize the code, such as removing dead code, dependencies on legacy packages, and improving performance. Results showed parity with the original version, bugs found and fixed, and limitations documented. Future plans include full removal of dependencies and expanding test coverage to additional specs. Contributions from UEFI members will be needed to finalize and release the next official SCT version.

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‘sct-next’

SCT for modern


platforms

Presented by Olivier Martin

presented by

UEFI Plugfest – May 2014


Agenda
UEFI SCT overview
Why ‘sct-next’?
Steps toward ‘sct-next’
After ‘sct-next’?

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 2


UEFI SCT Overview
• Self Certification Test
• Driven by UEFI Test Working Group – [email protected]

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 3


What is SCT?
• A Test Framework running in UEFI
… a set of UEFI drivers and applications

• Test if the UEFI firmware complies with the latest


UEFI specification

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 4


Why ‘sct-next’?

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 5


SCT legacy
• Require EDK Shell (sometimes named as EFI Shell 1.0)
“I think EDK shell is not actively maintained now. We should migrate to
UEFI shell ASAP.” (answer from one of the owner of EDK Shell)

• Require EdkCompatibilityPkg

• Accumulation of years of development

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 6


Steps toward ‘sct-next’

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 7


New Development Process
• From an obscure ZIP file to an ‘open’ Github
repository
• Allow code review, issue tracker
• Development more transparent to encourage
contributions

• How to contribute:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=ArmPkg/HowT
oContributeSct

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 8


Step 1: Clean the code
• Remove dead code & leftovers

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 9


Step 1: Clean the code
• Remove dead code

• Remove duplicated implementation

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 10


Step 1: Clean the code
• Remove dead code

• Remove duplicated implementation

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 11


Step 1: Clean the code
• Remove dead code

• Remove duplicated implementation

• New helper library

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 12


Step 2: Run SCT on EFI Shell 2.0
• Abstraction to still be able to run on EDK Shell

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 13


Step 3: Disconnect from EdkCompatibilityPkg
• Reduce dependency on the legacy framework

• Avoid to maintain legacy code


The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 14
Step 4: Performance improvement
• Run SCT faster to run SCT more often

• To not use the excuse of the long SCT execution


time to not contribute to SCT…

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 15


Step 5: Validation
• Automation

• Regression

• Debugging

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 16


Results [1/2]
• Parity between the ‘master’ and ‘sct-next’ branches
• Found & Fix 12 defects in EFI Shell 2.0
• Found limitation in UEFI Shell 2.0 spec
• Tried (and documented) new Github process
• Inconsistencies in UEFI SCT with the UEFI spec

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 17


Results [2/2]
• $ git diff master..HEAD --shortstat
1745 files changed, 66752 insertions(+), 96577 deletions(-)

• Performance improvement … work-in-progress

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 18


After ‘sct-next’?

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 19


Next official SCT release?
• Need contribution from UEFI members

… what is a contribution?
• Code changes
• Code review
• Documentation
• Test

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 20


$ git clone https://github.com/UEFI/UEFI-SCT
Cloning into 'UEFI-SCT'...
Username for 'https://github.com':
$ cd UEFI-SCT
$ git checkout sct-next
Switched to a new branch 'sct-next‘
$
The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 21
Future of ‘sct-next’?
• Do we really need to run SCT from a Shell?
• Remove ALL the dependencies around SctPkg
• More than a UEFI spec conformance test…
• EFI Shell spec?
• ACPI spec?
• Vendor specific test (eg: (ARM) Server Base Specification
Architecture) ?

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 22


Questions ?!?

Resources:

 How to contribute to SCT?


http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=ArmPkg/HowToCon
tributeSct

 How to debug SCT?


http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=ArmPkg/Sct
The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 23
For more information on the
Unified EFI Forum and UEFI
Specifications, visit
http://www.uefi.org

presented by

The UEFI Forum www.uefi.org 24

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