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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

+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.