Re: "make check-acceptance" takes way too long

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 2/1/22 17:01, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 6:25 AM Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> > We have up to now tried really hard as a project to avoid building and
> > hosting our own binaries to avoid theoretical* GPL compliance issues.
> > This is why we've ended up relying so much on distros to build and host
> > binaries we can use. Most QEMU developers have their own personal zoo of
> > kernels and userspaces which they use for testing. I use custom kernels
> > with a buildroot user space in initramfs for example. We even use the
> > qemu advent calendar for a number of our avocado tests but we basically
> > push responsibility for GPL compliance to the individual developers in
> > that case.
> >
> > *theoretical in so far I suspect most people would be happy with a
> > reference to an upstream repo/commit and .config even if that is not to
> > the letter of the "offer of source code" required for true compliance.
>
> Yes, it'd be fine (great, really!) if a lightweight distro (or
> kernels/initrd) were to
> be maintained and identified as an "official" QEMU pick.  Putting the binaries
> in the source tree though, brings all sorts of compliance issues.

FWIW, before avocado, I am using linux+buildroot images for PPC
and running a simple "boot-net-login-poweroff" script for each
machine/CPU QEMU can test :


ref405ep : Linux /init login DONE (PASSED)
bamboo : Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
sam460ex : Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
g3beige-604 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
g3beige-g3 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
mac99-g4 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
mac99-7447 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
mac99-7448 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
mac99-7450 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
mpc8544ds : Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
e500mc : Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
40p : FW login DONE (PASSED) # this one is a special case
e5500 : Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
e6500 : Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
g5-32 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
g5-64 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
pseries-970 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
pseries-970mp : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
pseries-POWER5+ : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
pseries : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
pseriesle8 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
pseriesle9 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
pseriesle10 : FW Linux Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
powernv8 : FW Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)
powernv9 : FW Linux /init net login DONE (PASSED)

Images are here :

  https://github.com/legoater/qemu-ppc-boot/tree/main/buildroot

Buildroot has a testsuite using QEMU and they have been nice enough
to take new QEMU boards for PPC.

Thanks,

C.


> The downloading of the images at test "setup time" is still a better approach,
> given that tests will simply skip if the download is not possible.
>
> - Cleber.