oddities in "runqemu" script

oddities in "runqemu" script

[Robert P. J. Day]

  just a few observations:

1) usage suggests this possible option:

  MACHINE=xyz

  not sure what that's supposed to accomplish, that will be rejected
by the arg parsing loop, will it not?  or how is one supposed to
interpret that?

2) the process_filename() function appears to accept a filesystem type
of "ext4", but the arg parsing loop immediately after that doesn't
recognize that as valid, only ext[23].

3) the arg parsing script clearly recognizes the option "audio", but
that's not mentioned in the usage() function.

rday

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Re: oddities in "runqemu" script

[Scott Garman]

On 06/14/2012 11:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>    just a few observations:
>
> 1) usage suggests this possible option:
>
>    MACHINE=xyz
>
>    not sure what that's supposed to accomplish, that will be rejected
> by the arg parsing loop, will it not?  or how is one supposed to
> interpret that?

This is a bug in the usage() documentation, thanks for reporting it.

> 2) the process_filename() function appears to accept a filesystem type
> of "ext4", but the arg parsing loop immediately after that doesn't
> recognize that as valid, only ext[23].

Our QEMU machines only generate .ext3 images, so that would explain why 
this never got tested. It's still not good that it's inconsistent, so 
I've filed a bug to fix that and the above issue:

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2611

> 3) the arg parsing script clearly recognizes the option "audio", but
> that's not mentioned in the usage() function.

That's because we're not yet ready to advertise that the audio option is 
fully supported, see this bug:

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1018

which isn't even slated for work in 1.3, but rather 1.4.

Thanks for these inquiries!

Scott

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