Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 3/3] oeqa selftest uboot.py: add qemu KVM test case

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Thu May 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM CEST, Mikko Rapeli via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Add a test case to boot target system via u-boot
> using qemu with KVM. This was broken recently
> and workaround proposed to u-boot. Test case
> works with genericarm64 and qemuarm64 target machines
> compiled and tested on aarch64 build host with KVM
> support.
>
> Test execution time with full sstate cache is
> around 170 seconds. qemu boot itself takes just
> a few seconds to full userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>
> ---

Hi Mikko,

I saw your other mail saying you will make an update, but as I had
already picked these patches, here is the build result: the selftest is
failing on armhost:

---
2025-05-23 08:50:18,542 - oe-selftest - INFO - uboot.UBootTest.test_boot_uboot_kvm_to_full_target (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2025-05-23 08:50:18,543 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... ERROR
...
QEMU 10.0.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu)
Waiting at most 1000 seconds for login banner (05/23/25 08:33:29)
Connection from 127.0.0.1:43786
Target didn't reach login banner in 1000 seconds (05/23/25 08:50:12)
Last 25 lines of login console (1721):
Scanning bootdev 'virtio-blk#36.bootdev':
Scanning bootdev 'virtio-net#32.bootdev':
BOOTP broadcast 1
...
BOOTP broadcast 17

Retry time exceeded; starting again
No more bootdevs
---  -----------  ------  --------  ----  ------------------------  ----------------
(1 bootflow, 1 valid)
=>
...
RuntimeError: core-image-minimal - FAILED to start qemu - check the task log and the boot log
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https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/23/builds/1749

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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