Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] oeqa: Fix for QEMU_USE_KVM

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2019-01-04 at 15:15 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> Fixed:
> MACHINE = "qemux86"
> QEMU_USE_KVM = "qemux86"
> IMAGE_CLASSES += "testimage"
> 
> $ oe-selftest -r runqemu.RunqemuTests.test_boot_rootfs
> 
> [snip]
>   File "/buildarea1/lyang1/poky/meta/lib/oe/types.py", line 122, in
> boolean
>     raise ValueError("Invalid boolean value '%s'" % value)
> ValueError: Invalid boolean value 'qemux86'
> 
> Now QEMU_USE_KVM can only be boolean, can not contain MACHINE any
> more, kvm
> will be enabled if target_arch == build_arch or both of them are x86
> archs.
> 
[...]
> +def is_x86(arch):
> +    """
> +    Check whether arch is x86 or x86_64
> +    """
> +    if arch.startswith('x86_') or re.match('i.*86', arch) or arch ==
> 'ia64':
> +        return True

Thanks, I've queued this for testing. I did remove the ia64 test here
as ia64 is itanium which can't do x86 KVM from what I know.

We may also need to add something for arm == aarch64 comparisons, I'm
not 100% sure what is supproted. I've cc'd Jon on that...

Cheers,

Richard