Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] Boot Linux Console Test: add a test for the Raspberry Pi 2

[Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eduardo Habkost" <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>, "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
> qemu-arm@nongnu.org, "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>, "Andrew Baumann" <Andrew.Baumann@microsoft.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 4:52:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] Boot Linux Console Test: add a test for the Raspberry Pi 2
> 
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:45:41AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> > 
> > Similar to the x86_64/pc test, it boots a Linux kernel on a raspi2
> > board and verify the serial is working.
> > 
> > If ARM is a target being built, "make check-acceptance" will
> > automatically include this test by the use of the "arch:arm" tags.
> > 
> > Alternatively, this test can be run using:
> > 
> >     $ avocado run -t arch:arm tests/acceptance
> >     $ avocado run -t machine:raspi2 tests/acceptance
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> 
> We're getting timeouts on travis-ci:
> https://travis-ci.org/ehabkost/qemu/jobs/535468057#L3289
> 
> I don't know yet if the guest is hanging, or if we just need to
> increase the timeout.  I could reproduce the timeout locally,
> too.
> 
> --
> Eduardo
> 

It may be related to:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1829779

And this is a proof that we urgently need to have a better
way of presenting/storing test artifacts.  The brief output
is nice when everything goes well, but makes the test results
close to useless once a failure happens.

Philippe showed us how GitLab allows CI jobs to preserve
artifacts, so maybe the solution is to move the loads there.

- Cleber.