On 3/12/19 6:36 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Dear board code maintainers, > > This is a (rather late) follow-up to the last QEMU summit. Minutes[*]: > > * Deprecating unmaintained features (devices, targets, backends) in QEMU > > QEMU has a mechanism to deprecate features but there remains a lot of > old unmaintained code. Refactoring is hindered by untested legacy > code, so there is a desire to deprecate unmaintained features more > often. > > [...] > > We should require at least a minimal test for each board; if nobody > cares enough to come up with one, that board should be deprecated. > > [...] > > Also see the qemu-devel discussion about deprecating code: > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-10/msg05828.html. > > That's a link to "Minutes of KVM Forum BoF on deprecating stuff". > Quote: > > * One obvious class of candidates for removal is machines we don't know > how to boot, or can't boot, say because we lack required firmware > and/or OS. > > Of course, "can boot" should be an automated test. As a first step > towards that, we should at least document how to boot each machine. > We're going to ask machine maintainers to do that. > > Let's get going on this. > > I gathered the machine types, mapped them to source files, which I fed > to get_maintainer.pl. Results are appended. If you're cc'ed, > MAINTAINERS fingers you for at least one machine type's source file. > Please tell us for all of them how to to a "meaningful" boot test. > > For now, what's "meaningful" is entirely up to you. Booting Linux > certainly is. > > Make sure to include a complete QEMU command line. If your QEMU command > line requires resources beyond the QEMU source tree and what we build > from it, please detail them, and provide download URLs as far as > possible. > > Goals for this exercise: > > * Gather information we need to cover more machines in our automated > testing. > > Related work: > [PATCH v4 00/19] Acceptance Tests: target architecture support > Message-Id: <20190312121150.8638-1-cr...@redhat.com> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg03881.html > > * Maybe identify a few machines we don't know how to boot anymore. > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > > > Machines with at least one maintainer: > > = hw/alpha/dp264.c = > Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> (maintainer:Alpha Machines) > > = hw/arm/aspeed.c = > "Cédric Le Goater" <c...@kaod.org> (maintainer:ASPEED BMCs) > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> (maintainer:ASPEED BMCs) > Andrew Jeffery <and...@aj.id.au> (reviewer:ASPEED BMCs) > Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au> (reviewer:ASPEED BMCs) > qemu-...@nongnu.org (open list:ASPEED BMCs)
I have checked the URLs but they could change in the future : * palmetto-bmc https://openpower.xyz/job/openbmc-build/lastSuccessfulBuild/distro=ubuntu,label=builder,target=palmetto/artifact/deploy/images/palmetto/flash-palmetto qemu-system-arm -m 512 -M palmetto-bmc -net nic,macaddr=C0:FF:EE:00:00:01,model=ftgmac100 -net user,id=netdev0,hostfwd=::2222-:22,hostname=ast1 -drive file=flash-palmetto,format=raw,if=mtd -nographic * romulus-bmc https://openpower.xyz/job/openbmc-build/lastSuccessfulBuild/distro=ubuntu,label=builder,target=romulus/artifact/deploy/images/romulus/flash-romulus qemu-system-arm -m 512 -M romulus-bmc -net nic,macaddr=C0:FF:EE:00:00:01,model=ftgmac100 -net user,id=netdev0,hostfwd=::2222-:22,hostname=ast1 -drive file=flash-romulus,format=raw,if=mtd -nographic * ast2500-evb https://openpower.xyz/job/openbmc-build/lastSuccessfulBuild/distro=ubuntu,label=builder,target=evb-ast2500/artifact/deploy/images/evb-ast2500/flash-evb-ast2500 qemu-system-arm -m 512 -M ast2500-evb -net nic,macaddr=C0:FF:EE:00:00:01,model=ftgmac100 -net user,id=netdev0,hostfwd=::2222-:22,hostname=ast1 -drive file=flash-evb-ast2500,format=raw,if=mtd -nographic * witherspoon-bmc https://openpower.xyz/job/openbmc-build/lastSuccessfulBuild/distro=ubuntu,label=builder,target=witherspoon/artifact/deploy/images/witherspoon/obmc-phosphor-image-witherspoon.ubi.mtd qemu-system-arm -m 512 -M witherspoon-bmc -net nic,macaddr=C0:FF:EE:00:00:01,model=ftgmac100 -net user,id=netdev0,hostfwd=::2222-:22,hostname=ast1 -drive file=obmc-phosphor-image-witherspoon.ubi.mtd,format=raw,if=mtd -nographic [ ... ] > = hw/ppc/pnv.c = > David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> (maintainer:PowerPC) > qemu-...@nongnu.org (open list:PowerPC) * POWER8 https://openpower.xyz/job/openpower/job/openpower-op-build/label=slave,target=palmetto/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/images/rootfs.cpio.xz https://openpower.xyz/job/openpower/job/openpower-op-build/label=slave,target=palmetto/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/images/zImage.epapr qemu-system-ppc64 -m 2G -machine powernv -cpu POWER8 -kernel ./zImage.epapr -initrd ./rootfs.cpio.xz -nographic * POWER9 needs a skiboot update. Thanks, C.
