test: Add a test for booting Ubuntu 24.04

Now that U-Boot can boot this quickly, using kvm, add a test that the
installer starts up correctly.

Use the qemu-x86_64 board in the SJG lab.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ coreboot test.py:
     - export USE_LABGRID_SJG=1
     # export verbose="-v"
     - ${SRC}/test/py/test.py --role ${ROLE} --build-dir "${OUT}"
-        --capture=tee-sys -k "not bootstd" || ret=$?
+        --capture=tee-sys -k "not bootstd ${TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC}" || ret=$?
     - U_BOOT_BOARD_IDENTITY="${ROLE}" u-boot-test-release || true
     - if [[ $ret -ne 0 ]]; then
         exit $ret;
@@ -702,3 +702,9 @@ vf2:
   variables:
     ROLE: vf2
   <<: *lab_dfn
+
+qemu-x86_64:
+  variables:
+    ROLE: qemu-x86_64
+    TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC: "and not sleep"
+  <<: *lab_dfn

test/py/tests/test_distro.py

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+# Copyright 2025 Canonical Ltd.
+# Written by Simon Glass <simon.glass@canonical.com>
+
+import pytest
+
+# Enable early console so that the test can see if something goes wrong
+CONSOLE = 'earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8 console=uart8250,io,0x3f8'
+
+@pytest.mark.boardspec('qemu-x86_64')
+@pytest.mark.role('qemu-x86_64')
+def test_distro(ubman):
+    """Test that of-platdata can be generated and used in sandbox"""
+    with ubman.log.section('boot'):
+        ubman.run_command('boot', wait_for_prompt=False)
+
+    with ubman.log.section('Grub'):
+        # Wait for grub to come up and offset a menu
+        ubman.p.expect(['Try or Install Ubuntu'])
+
+        # Press 'e' to edit the command line
+        ubman.log.info("Pressing 'e'")
+        ubman.run_command('e', wait_for_prompt=False, send_nl=False)
+
+        # Wait until we see the editor appear
+        ubman.p.expect(['/casper/initrd'])
+
+        # Go down to the 'linux' line. Avoid using down-arrow as that includes
+        # an Escape character, which may be parsed by Grub as such, causing it
+        # to return to the top menu
+        ubman.log.info("Going DOWN")
+        ubman.ctrl('N')
+        ubman.ctrl('N')
+        ubman.ctrl('N')
+
+        # Go to end of line
+        ubman.log.info("Going to EOL")
+        ubman.ctrl('E')
+
+        # Backspace to remove 'quiet splash'
+        ubman.log.info("Erasing quiet and splash")
+        ubman.send('\b' * len('quiet splash'))
+
+        # Send our noisy console
+        ubman.log.info("Noisy console")
+        ubman.send(CONSOLE)
+
+        # Tell grub to boot
+        ubman.log.info("boot")
+        ubman.ctrl('X')
+        ubman.p.expect(['Booting a command list'])
+
+    with ubman.log.section('Linux'):
+        # Linux should start immediately
+        ubman.p.expect(['Linux version'])
+
+    with ubman.log.section('Ubuntu'):
+        # Shortly later, we should see this banner
+        ubman.p.expect(['Welcome to .*Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS.*!'])
+
+    ubman.restart_uboot()