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

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

+Beraldo

On 22/2/22 18:37, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 17:33, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
> <philippe.mathieu.daude@gmail.com> 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-*?
> 
>> We need the DEBUG profile to ensure the bios-tables-tests work.
>>
>> If you want to boot a guest using EDK2, you should use the images
>> build by your distribution (/usr/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd),
>> not these images.
> 
> But we're booting guests using EDK2 as part of our avocado tests:
> if we say "booting guests with EDK2 should be done with non-debug
> images" we need to also be building and providing those in
> pc-bios for the avocado tests.

Then we should add edk2-aarch64 and edk2-ovmf to lcitool, to have
the distrib images in our generated Docker images.

Cleber, you added this test in commit 6fd52d671d ("Acceptance test:
add "boot_linux" tests"), can you have a look?

Thanks,

Phil.