[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 for-next 00/11] gitlab Qemu runtime testing

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 >> I discussed about this series with Jeremy and he suggest to add the Qemu command
 >> line into the Qemu's defconfig file (add a new Kconfig option).
 >> With that, we can even add a new Makefile target "make run-qemu" to start Qemu
 >> when the Qemu command line is set in the defconfig (this would avoid adding
 >> several launch.sh script).

 > So something like

 > config BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_QEMU_LAUNCH_ARGS
 > 	string "qemu launch command"
 > 	help
 > 	  Command to launch qemu. If this is defined, 'make run-qemu' can be
 > 	  used to build everything and launch qemu.


 > HOST_QEMU_LAUNCH_ARGS = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_QEMU_LAUNCH_ARGS))
 > ifneq ($(HOST_QEMU_LAUNCH_ARGS),)
 > run-qemu: world
 > 	$(Q)$(HOST_QEMU) <kernel args> <rootfs args> $(HOST_QEMU_LAUNCH_ARGS)
 > endif

 > Looks like a good idea indeed!

Cute. The kernel arguments (-kernel path/to/kernel/image) could indeed
probably be standardized, but we do some to have quite some variation in
the rootfs arguments.

But OK, we could start with just including the rootfs argument in
_LAUNCH_ARGS.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard