Re: Analysis of slow distro boots in check-avocado (BootLinuxAarch64.test_virt_tcg*)

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 17:33, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
<philippe.mathieu.daude@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +Igor/MST for UEFI tests.
>
> On 22/2/22 17:38, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 04:17:23PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> >>
> >> Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> TL;DR:
> >>>
> >>>    - pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd should be rebuilt without debug
> >>
> >> Laszlo,
> >>
> >> Would it be possible to do a less debug enabled version of EDK2 on the
> >> next update to pc-bios/edk2-*?

> We need the DEBUG profile to ensure the bios-tables-tests work.
>
> If you want to boot a guest using EDK2, you should use the images
> build by your distribution (/usr/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd),
> not these images.

But we're booting guests using EDK2 as part of our avocado tests:
if we say "booting guests with EDK2 should be done with non-debug
images" we need to also be building and providing those in
pc-bios for the avocado tests.

-- PMM