Re: [PULL 3/6] tests/avocado: drop BootLinuxConsole.test_mips_malta_cpio test

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 1/12/23 16:12, Alex Bennée wrote:
> The assets are no longer archived by Debian so we can't run this on
> CI. While some people may still have the test in their cache we do
> have more recent images from tuxrun so this isn't a great loss.
> 
> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Message-Id: <20231201093633.2551497-4-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> 
> diff --git a/tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py b/tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py
> index 231b4f68e5..ba2f99b53a 100644
> --- a/tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py
> +++ b/tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py
> @@ -191,47 +191,6 @@ def test_mips64el_fuloong2e(self):
>           console_pattern = 'Kernel command line: %s' % kernel_command_line
>           self.wait_for_console_pattern(console_pattern)
>   
> -    def test_mips_malta_cpio(self):
> -        """
> -        :avocado: tags=arch:mips
> -        :avocado: tags=machine:malta
> -        :avocado: tags=endian:big
> -        """
> -        deb_url = ('http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/'
> -                   '20160601T041800Z/pool/main/l/linux/'
> -                   'linux-image-4.5.0-2-4kc-malta_4.5.5-1_mips.deb')

In https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/87o7fa5505.fsf@draig.linaro.org/ 
you mention the linux-4.7 kernel but now you are removing the 4.5 which
also works...

$ wget 
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20160601T041800Z/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-4.5.0-2-4kc-malta_4.5.5-1_mips.deb
--2023-12-01 17:46:49-- 
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20160601T041800Z/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-4.5.0-2-4kc-malta_4.5.5-1_mips.deb
Resolving snapshot.debian.org (snapshot.debian.org)... 185.17.185.185, 
193.62.202.27
Connecting to snapshot.debian.org 
(snapshot.debian.org)|185.17.185.185|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 29893440 (29M)
Saving to: ‘linux-image-4.5.0-2-4kc-malta_4.5.5-1_mips.deb’

linux-image-4.5.0-2-4kc-malta_4  12%[=>   ]   3,52M  1,07MB/s    eta 25s
^C

Can we not rush and figure out what is the problem please?

> -        deb_hash = 'a3c84f3e88b54e06107d65a410d1d1e8e0f340f8'
> -        deb_path = self.fetch_asset(deb_url, asset_hash=deb_hash)
> -        kernel_path = self.extract_from_deb(deb_path,
> -                                            '/boot/vmlinux-4.5.0-2-4kc-malta')
> -        initrd_url = ('https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/raw/'
> -                      '8584a59ed9e5eb5ee7ca91f6d74bbb06619205b8/rootfs/'
> -                      'mips/rootfs.cpio.gz')
> -        initrd_hash = 'bf806e17009360a866bf537f6de66590de349a99'
> -        initrd_path_gz = self.fetch_asset(initrd_url, asset_hash=initrd_hash)
> -        initrd_path = self.workdir + "rootfs.cpio"
> -        archive.gzip_uncompress(initrd_path_gz, initrd_path)
> -
> -        self.vm.set_console()
> -        kernel_command_line = (self.KERNEL_COMMON_COMMAND_LINE
> -                               + 'console=ttyS0 console=tty '
> -                               + 'rdinit=/sbin/init noreboot')
> -        self.vm.add_args('-kernel', kernel_path,
> -                         '-initrd', initrd_path,
> -                         '-append', kernel_command_line,
> -                         '-no-reboot')
> -        self.vm.launch()
> -        self.wait_for_console_pattern('Boot successful.')
> -
> -        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'cat /proc/cpuinfo',
> -                                                'BogoMIPS')
> -        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'uname -a',
> -                                                'Debian')
> -        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'reboot',
> -                                                'reboot: Restarting system')
> -        # Wait for VM to shut down gracefully
> -        self.vm.wait()
> -
>       @skipUnless(os.getenv('AVOCADO_ALLOW_UNTRUSTED_CODE'), 'untrusted code')
>       def test_mips64el_malta_5KEc_cpio(self):
>           """