Re: [PATCH 1/2] qemuboot-mips: Enable VGA device

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

On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 12:25 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 1:16 AM Richard Purdie <
> richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 09:29 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> > > This helps in booting weston images ( core-image-weston ) with
> > fbdev
> > > backend, without this westons initialization of fbdev backend
> > fails
> > > because it does not get correct frame buffer settings and exits
> > > pre-maturely
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  meta/conf/machine/include/qemuboot-mips.inc | 5 +++++
> > >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/qemuboot-mips.inc
> > b/meta/conf/machine/include/qemuboot-mips.inc
> > > index 978820a2e0..52cb28a5d2 100644
> > > --- a/meta/conf/machine/include/qemuboot-mips.inc
> > > +++ b/meta/conf/machine/include/qemuboot-mips.inc
> > > @@ -5,3 +5,8 @@ QB_KERNEL_CMDLINE_APPEND = "console=ttyS0
> > console=tty"
> > >  QB_OPT_APPEND = "-show-cursor -usb -device usb-tablet"
> > >  # Add the 'virtio-rng-pci' device otherwise the guest may run
> > out of entropy
> > >  QB_OPT_APPEND += "-object rng-
> > random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 -device virtio-rng-
> > pci,rng=rng0"
> > > +
> > > +# For graphics to work we need to define the VGA device as well
> > as the necessary USB devices
> > > +QB_OPT_APPEND = "-show-cursor -device VGA,edid=on"
> > > +QB_OPT_APPEND += "-device qemu-xhci -device usb-tablet -device
> > usb-kbd"
> > > +
> > 
> > The change is probably good but it causes consistent failures in
> > out
> > testimage runs for mips and mips64:
> > 
> > https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/60/builds/1429
> > https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/102/builds/196
> > https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/74/builds/1431
> > 
> > all due to errors appearing in the logs.
> 
> Is it due to glibc 2.31 that we were discussing or a separate issue 

Separate, there are two issues.

Cheers,

Richard