Re: [OE-core][PATCH V2] qemu: uprev v4.2.0 -> v5.0.0

["Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 18:36 +0100, Richard Purdie via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-06-19 at 14:12 -0400, Sakib Sajal wrote:
> > Major update after v4.2.
> > 
> > Changes:
> >   - os_find_datadir() was changed after the v4.2 release
> >     causing v5.0 to not find the bios and not boot the
> >     image. Fix is sent to upstream qemu.
> >     See: qemu/find_datadir.patch
> >   - v5.0 binary had host contamination for dynamically linked
> >     libraries, "--extra-ldflags='${LDFLAGS}'" in EXTRA_OECONF
> >     resolved the issue
> >   - bluetooth code was removed: qemu.git$ git show 1d4ffe8dc7
> >     hence removed PACKAGECONFIG[bluez]
> >   - -show-cursor qemu option is now deprecated, updated
> >     scripts/runqemu to use updated option instead
> >   - added PACKAGECONFIG definitions
> >   - added qemu-ptest to conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
> >   - increased support for ARM architecture, cpu and board
> >   - removed patches merged upstream and refreshed
> >     existing ones
> > 
> > Testing:
> > Build core-image-minimal against the machines in
> > openembedded-core/meta/conf/machine and succesfully
> > booted with qemu v5.0
> > 
> > Ran qemu-ptest on x86-64 and arm64 with identical results:
> > PASS: 1166
> > SKIP:    0
> > FAIL:    0
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sakib Sajal <sakib.sajal@windriver.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Slater <joe.slater@windriver.com>
> 
> This is in general looking good but we did see one error:
> 
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/62/builds/2050
> 
> which is strange as its only on the edgerouter.

Its because qemu can't run on mips machines. We therefore need:

PTESTS_FAST_remove_mips64 = "qemu-ptest"

I can add this as a fixup to the patch.

Cheers,

Richard