Re: Analysis of slow distro boots in check-avocado (BootLinuxAarch64.test_virt_tcg*)

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philippe.mathieu.daude@gmail.com>]

On 23/2/22 14:43, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 02:34:23PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 23/2/22 12:07, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 06:33:41PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>> +Igor/MST for UEFI tests.
>>>>
>>>> On 22/2/22 17:38, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 04:17:23PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> TL;DR:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      - pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd should be rebuilt without debug
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Laszlo,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would it be possible to do a less debug enabled version of EDK2 on the
>>>>>> next update to pc-bios/edk2-*?
>>>>>
>>>>> NB, Laszlo is no longer  maintaining EDK2 in QEMU, it was handed
>>>>> over to Philippe.  I'm CC'ing Gerd too since he's a reviewer and
>>>>> an EDK2 contributor taking over from Lazslo in EDK2 community
>>>>
>>>> We need the DEBUG profile to ensure the bios-tables-tests work.
>>>
>>> Can you elaborate on what bios-tables-tests needs this for, and
>>> what coverage we would loose by disabling DEBUG.
>>
>> Maybe it was only required when the tests were developed...
>> I'll defer that question to Igor.
>>
>>> It may well be a better tradeoff to sacrifice part of bios-tables-tests
>>> in favour of shipping more broadly usable images without DEBUG.
>>
>> Why not, if users are aware/happy to use a unsafe image with various
>> unfixed CVEs.
> 
> Note there's nothing special about EDK2 in regard of CVE fixes (or lack
> thereof). The same applies to every other firmware we ship, as well as
> QEMU code itself.

OK, we are good then, thanks.

Phil.