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
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