Re: [PATCH] tests/functional/test_aarch64_virt_gpu: Skip test if EGL won't initialize

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> If you are using the Nvidia drivers and have installed new versions
> of those packages but have not yet rebooted the host kernel,
> attempting to use the egl-headless display will cause QEMU to fail to
> start with
>
> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -display egl-headless
> qemu-system-aarch64: egl: eglInitialize failed: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED
> qemu-system-aarch64: egl: render node init failed
>
> together with this complaint in the host kernel dmesg:
>
> [7874777.555649] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 535.247.01, but
>                  NVRM: this kernel module has the version 535.230.02.  Please
>                  NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
>                  NVRM: components have the same version.
>
> This isn't a problem with QEMU itself, so reporting this as a test
> failure is misleading.  Instead skip the tests, as we already do for
> various other kinds of "host system can't actually run the EGL
> display" situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Acked-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro