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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 23/2/22 10:19, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 17:33, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
> <philippe.mathieu.daude@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Do we have any other images in pc-bios that are silently
> "do not use these images, they are only for a very specific
> test case and nothing else" ?

I might try to move that to test/. Gerd, are you OK with that?

> Also, "make install" installs these EDK2 images, which doesn't
> seem like the right thing for "this is only for one test case".

Well I'd prefer we never had them installed. Today I don't remember
why it ended that way. Gerd, similarly, are you OK with not installing
these images (after a 2 release deprecation warning)?