Re: [poky] [PATCH v2] genericarm64.conf: fix qemu testing with testimage.bbclass

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

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 01:16:50PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2026-03-11 at 14:54 +0200, Mikko Rapeli via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> > genericarm64 machine has supported qemu for a long time but
> > the default build config failed with testimage.bbclass to boot
> > and run oeqa runtime tests.
> > 
> > TESTIMAGEDEPENDS needs qemu utilities so that they are correctly
> > installed to image sysroot. For qemu machines these are set in
> > testimage.bbclass but remain unset for non-qemu machines like
> > genericarm64.
> > 
> > TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS needs snapshot since default genericarm64 image
> > is a compressed wic.zst and nographic to run qemu without connected
> > display which is better on headless build machines.
> > 
> > With these set, default genericarm64 core-image-sato boots correctly
> > with testimage.bbclass and all oeqa runtime tests pass on an x86_64
> > build machine:
> > 
> > $ bitbake core-image-sato && bitbake -c testimage core-image-sato
> > ...
> > SUMMARY:
> > core-image-sato () - Ran 75 tests in 229.248s
> > core-image-sato - OK - All required tests passed (successes=24,
> > skipped=51, failures=0, errors=0)
> > NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1558 tasks of which 1556 didn't need to
> > be rerun and all succeeded.
> > 
> > To boot qemu manually (add "slirp" if tap networking not setup):
> > 
> > $ runqemu nographic snapshot core-image-sato
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > �meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf | 4 ++++
> > �1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > v2: dropper slirp from TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS
> > 
> > v1: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/poky/message/13854
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
> > index 2b1ce4bdd02b..d6839d16a515 100644
> > --- a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
> > +++ b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
> > @@ -73,5 +73,9 @@ QB_TCPSERIAL_OPT ?= "-device virtio-serial-pci -chardev socket,id=virtcon,port=@
> > �# Virtio networking
> > �QB_TAP_OPT ?= "-netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=@TAP@,script=no,downscript=no"
> > �
> > +# default to nographic to work on headless build machines using testimage.bbclass, snapshot for wic.zst image type
> > +TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS ?= "nographic snapshot"
> > +# basic qemu testimage.bbclass support
> > +TESTIMAGEDEPENDS:append = " qemu-native:do_populate_sysroot qemu-helper-native:do_populate_sysroot qemu-helper-native:do_addto_recipe_sysroot"
> > �# If we're running testimage then we're in a qemu, so ensure u-boot is build
> > �TESTIMAGEDEPENDS:append = " u-boot:do_deploy"
> 
> I'll try again.
> 
> nographic does not make sense here, genericarm64 supports graphics as
> far as I know. The limitations of the test environment should not be
> hardcoded into the machine definition.
> 
> There are patches which I sent recently against master which fix that
> issue in a better way and will mean this is not needed. I am therefore
> not going to take that as it is confusing, incorrect and not actually
> needed.

Right, v3 then without nographic.

Cheers,

-Mikko