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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 23/2/22 14:43, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 02:34:23PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > On 23/2/22 12:07, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Maybe it was only required when the tests were developed...
> > I'll defer that question to Igor.
> >
> > > It may well be a better tradeoff to sacrifice part of bios-tables-tests
> > > in favour of shipping more broadly usable images without DEBUG.
> >
> > Why not, if users are aware/happy to use a unsafe image with various
> > unfixed CVEs.
>
> Note there's nothing special about EDK2 in regard of CVE fixes (or lack
> thereof). The same applies to every other firmware we ship, as well as
> QEMU code itself.

OK, we are good then, thanks.

Phil.