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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 06:33:41PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé 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-*?
> > 
> > NB, Laszlo is no longer  maintaining EDK2 in QEMU, it was handed
> > over to Philippe.  I'm CC'ing Gerd too since he's a reviewer and
> > an EDK2 contributor taking over from Lazslo in EDK2 community
> 
> We need the DEBUG profile to ensure the bios-tables-tests work.

Can you elaborate on what bios-tables-tests needs this for, and
what coverage we would loose by disabling DEBUG.

It may well be a better tradeoff to sacrifice part of bios-tables-tests
in favour of shipping more broadly usable images without DEBUG.

Regards,
Daniel
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