FWTS live

This is the repository containing the codes and instructions to build a FWTS (Firmware Test Suite) live image, which is based on a Ubuntu system.

Build

By Docker (amd64)

Clone this repository, then run:

sudo apt install docker.io
sudo make

The generated image will be called fwts-live-<version>.img.xz in the local directory.

By commands (amd64)

If you don't want to use docker, you can run the follow commands in Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04 as root:

echo "deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic main universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
    echo "deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates main universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
    echo "deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list 
apt update && apt -y install build-essential git snapcraft ubuntu-image && apt-get -y build-dep livecd-rootfs
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthonywong/pc-amd64-gadget.git && \
    cd pc-amd64-gadget && snapcraft prime && cd ..
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthonywong/fwts-livecd-rootfs.git && \
    cd fwts-livecd-rootfs && debian/rules binary && \
    dpkg -i ../livecd-rootfs_*_amd64.deb && cd ..
ubuntu-image classic -a amd64 -d -p ubuntu-cpc -s bionic -i 850M -O . \
    --extra-ppas firmware-testing-team/ppa-fwts-stable pc-amd64-gadget/prime && \
    fwts_version=$(apt-cache show fwts | grep ^Version | egrep -o '[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{2}' | sort -r | head -1) && \
    mv pc.img fwts-live-${fwts_version}.img && \
    xz fwts-live-${fwts_version}.img

By commands (aarch64)

The following command is for building on an aarch64 host:

echo "deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic main universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
    echo "deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates main universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
    echo "deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list 
apt update && apt -y install build-essential git snapcraft ubuntu-image && apt-get -y build-dep livecd-rootfs
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthonywong/uefi-aarch64-gadget.git && \
    cd uefi-aarch64-gadget && snapcraft prime && cd ..
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthonywong/fwts-livecd-rootfs.git && \
    cd fwts-livecd-rootfs && debian/rules binary && \
    dpkg -i ../livecd-rootfs_*_arm64.deb && cd ..
ubuntu-image classic -a arm64 -d -p ubuntu-cpc -s bionic -O . \
    --extra-ppas firmware-testing-team/ppa-fwts-stable uefi-aarch64-gadget/prime && \
    fwts_version=$(apt-cache show fwts | grep ^Version | egrep -o '[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{2}' | sort -r | head -1) && \
    mv arm64.img fwts-live-${fwts_version}-arm64.img && \
    xz fwts-live-${fwts_version}-arm64.img

Testing

The image can be easily tested using kvm.

amd64:

kvm -m 1024 -drive file=fwts-live-<version>.img,format=raw

aarch64:

sudo apt install qemu-system-arm qemu-efi-aarch64 
qemu-system-aarch64 -nographic -cpu cortex-a53 -M virt -m 1024 \
  -bios /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd \
  -drive if=virtio,format=raw,file=fwts-live-<version>-arm64.img

TODO

Make the image smaller by pruning unnecessary packages.