[Buildroot] [PATCH 6/7] support/scripts/qemu-boot: gitlab tests for Qemu

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Arnout, All,

On 2019-04-30 13:20 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 30/04/2019 10:54, Jugurtha BELKALEM wrote:
> > Thank you for you comments Arnout, I have corrected the indentation, timeout
> > and? function declaration issues.
> > 
> > However; I think that duplicating the content of readme.txt of each qemu
> > architecture would be difficult to maintain (even if it is more convenient to
> > use), this is why a project like toolchain builder :
> > https://github.com/bootlin/toolchains-builder/blob/master/build.sh is reading
> > directly from readme.txt.
> 
>  The idea would not be to duplicate it, but to move it. I.e., readme.txt just
> says "launch with board/qemu/x86_64/launch.sh", and the actual command is in
> that shell script.
> 
>  But maybe we should see what other Buildroot maintainers have to say about it.
> Thomas, Peter, Yann, Romain?

Ideally, I'd go without the readme.txt altogether, or if we want to keep
"backward compatibility", we'd make it a symlink to launch.sh.

Snf then, launch.sh would be an actual shell script that also contains
the readme (possibly as -h).

> >     > > +? elif [ $device_name == "xtensa-lx60" ] || [ $device_name ==
> >     "xtensa-lx60-nommu" ]; then
> >     > > +? ? echo "xtensa cannot be tested"
> >     >? If that is the case, why do we even have these qemu defconfigs? Max?
> >     Tested both configurations just now, with the current buildroot tip
> >     (2019.02-959-gd54b0e22aef3) and QEMU-4.0. Both build and boot for me
> >     with QEMU command line from the readme.
>  Is this with the system-intalled qemu? I guess so, because Buildroot still has
> 3.1.0... That might be the issue :-)

I've started a test-build ehre, to check.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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