Re: [PATCH] Test netmap on FreeBSD

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 08/10/2019 11.48, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 10:49 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> FreeBSD offers a package for "netmap", thus let's install it in our
>> FreeBSD tests to get some compile test coverage for net/netmap.c, too.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  .cirrus.yml      | 2 +-
>>  tests/vm/freebsd | 3 +++
>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
>> index 8326a3a4b1..44fea2c29e 100644
>> --- a/.cirrus.yml
>> +++ b/.cirrus.yml
>> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ freebsd_12_task:
>>      memory: 8G
>>    install_script: pkg install -y
>>      bash bison curl cyrus-sasl git glib gmake gnutls gsed
>> -    nettle perl5 pixman pkgconf png usbredir
>> +    netmap nettle perl5 pixman pkgconf png usbredir
> 
>>    script:
>>      - mkdir build
>>      - cd build
>> diff --git a/tests/vm/freebsd b/tests/vm/freebsd
>> index 2a19461a90..45821702bd 100755
>> --- a/tests/vm/freebsd
>> +++ b/tests/vm/freebsd
>> @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ class FreeBSDVM(basevm.BaseVM):
>>          # libs: opengl
>>          "libepoxy",
>>          "mesa-libs",
>> +
>> +        # libs: network
>> +        "netmap",
> 
> IIRC netmap is shipped with the FreeBSD kernel, so we shouldn't need to
> install it.
> 
> I tried to understand what is the 'netmap' pkg and I found the following
> in my FreeBSD 12 VM:
> 
>     # pkg search netmap
>     netmap-0.1.3_1         Make a graphical representation of the surrounding network
> 
> I don't think we are installing the right 'netmap' (I know, it is a bit
> confusing :) )
> 
> I'll tried "make vm-build-freebsd" without this patch and I noticed
> "netmap support    yes" in the configure output. So I think we're
> already compiling the netmap backend in the 'vm-buil-freebsd' target and
> maybe also in cirrus.

Oops, I think you're right. I just checked an older build on cirrus-ci
(without this patch), and indeed, it also says "netmap support    yes"
in the output of "configure". So we already have a compile test for
netmap :-)

Thus, please disregard this patch, it's not necessary indeed.

 Thomas