Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] gitlab-ci: add an ARM32 qemu-based smoke test

[Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefano,

On 16.04.2022 02:17, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Add a minimal ARM32 smoke test based on qemu-system-arm, as provided by
> the test-artifacts qemu container. The minimal test simply boots Xen
> (built from previous build stages) and Dom0.
> 
> The test needs a working kernel and minimal initrd for dom0. Instead of
> building our own kernel and initrd, which would mean maintaining one or
> two more builting scripts under automation/, we borrow a kernel and
> initrd from distros.
> 
> For the kernel we pick the Debian Bullseye kernel, which has everything
> we need already built-in. However, we cannot use the Debian Bullseye
> initrd because it is 22MB and the large size causes QEMU to core dump.
> 
> Instead, use the tiny busybox-based rootfs provided by Alpine Linux,
> which is really minimal: just 2.5MB. Note that we cannot use the Alpine
> Linux kernel because that doesn't boot on Xen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v5:
> - use "virt" machine in QEMU

> +# For Xen, we need a couple of more node. Dump the DT from QEMU and add them
> +# XXX QEMU looks for "efi-virtio.rom" even if it is unneeded
> +curl -fsSLO https://github.com/qemu/qemu/raw/v5.2.0/pc-bios/efi-virtio.rom
> +./qemu-system-arm \
> +   -machine virt \
You changed machine to virt here, but ...

> +rm -f smoke.serial
> +set +e
> +timeout -k 1 240 \
> +./qemu-system-arm \
> +   -machine virt-6.0 \
forgot to change it here as well.

Cheers,
Michal