Running fwts on Linux

[Colin Ian King]

On 23/07/15 07:36, Shubham Sharma wrote:
> Hi Developers,
> 
> This is my first post to this group. I was checking fwts and found it
> very useful for UEFI tests.
> 
> I was wondering, if fwts is supported on non-debian based OS (ex:CentOS,
> Fedora etc) . I tried to use fwts but didn't get success.
> 
> I followed following steps :
> 
> 1. Get the source tarball of latest version of fwts
> 2. Extract the source, configure , make install
> 3. All went smooth so now I executed tests
> 4. I could execute all tests excepts uefi runtime tests.  uefi runtime
> tests were aborted due to below error
> ------------------------------------------
> Load efi_runtime module error.
> Cannot load efi_runtime module. Aborted.
> Aborted test, initialisation failed.
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> 5. Then I figured out that I need to have efi_runtime kernel driver to
> execute uefi runtime service tests. I installed dkms package too.
> 6. But now I am clueless as in what should be done to load efi_runtime
> module (I don't see and .ko file)

You don't actually need DKMS.  Just do the following:

cd efi_runtime
make
sudo insmod efi_runtime.ko

> 
> Your help will be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> S.K.S
> 
>