Re: [OE-core] runqemu: ahci option

[Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 11:42:58AM +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> Generally runqemu is inteded for  (and tested with) specifically
> qemux86_64 MACHINE (or any other qemu* machine). So if testing your
> particular target bootloader with qemu isn't actually important, you
> can rebuild the image for qemux86_64, and in that configuration there
> is no bootloader: qemu boots the kernel directly.

True, yocto has a lot of history with the assumption that every board even with
common and compatible SoC's needs a specific machine configuration.

I think this is a bit too old fashioned and would like to move towards generic and
compatible builds where a single binary build works on a large number of instruction
set compatible SoCs and boards.

Thus I'd be happy to have qemu testing part of this and the hard coded assumptions of
qemu configs to be removed or made optional so that they can be overwritten
if needed. So patches welcome :)

Cheers,

-Mikko