On 6 January 2015 at 11:23, Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 06.01.15 11:23, Ludwig Nussel wrote: >> Am 05.01.2015 um 16:54 schrieb Andrew Wafaa: >>> On 5 January 2015 at 15:32, Dirk Müller <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Does anyone know if this patch is still required, and what else needs >>>>> to be done to get OpenQA to work? I'm being shamed by our illustrious >>>>> Chairman with regards to OpenQA and as a matter of pride I'd like to >>>>> get OpenQA working with ARM - also Linaro are discussing whether to >>>>> use OpenQA or not. >>>> >>>> is that regarding AArch64 or 32bit ARM? Regarding 32 bit ARM, the >>>> patches are still required, also we're still lacking support for >>>> graphics (see Bernhards reply). Also, we don't have an install media >>>> for 32bit ARM. >>>> >>> Ideally I'd like to have both architectures supported, but I'll settle >>> for just one (at least initially). >>> >>>> Those are all not an issue for AArch64, and there it is next to >>>> trivial to add OpenQA support. I'd love to work on this myself but it >>>> would probably be quicker to get someone from the openqa team to >>>> implement the couple of missing lines of code for that. >>>> >>> OK I'll speak to the OpenQA guys and see what can be done. >> >> openQA basically needs an iso or hard disk image and a qemu that can >> boot the image into some GUI. With those two things and an ARM >> machine with Factory or 13.2 it shouldn't take long to get openQA >> up. > > So I've managed to at least get a penguin up with the virtual PCIe PHB: > > https://github.com/agraf/qemu/commits/arm-phb > > However, there is currently no upstream support for the generic PCIe PHB > in Linux on AArch64 - it only compiles on 32bit ARM. I've successfully > forward-ported a patch from LKML to enable it, but this needs more > testing to actually make sure it works correctly. >
Excellent news!! I'm fairly certain there are many of us who can at least test for you. > For 32bit ARM we don't have installation images or EFI, so OpenQA will > be harder to do. > Not sure how feasible it would be, but could you nest a 32bit guest? > I'd say give me a few days to sort everything out. By then we might have > something that's actually testable and has PCI on AArch64 and should > make everyone happy. > I'll be waiting :) > > But for now I'm off for bank holiday :) > Enjoy! > Alex > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
