Qemu tree for ASPEED testing

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 10/22/18 9:53 PM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> Hello Cedric,
> 
> OpenBMC CI runs the flash image on a Qemu Romulus machine type. Recent
> changes cause this to fail to boot to a prompt, as it is booting
> really slowly causing services to timeout and crash, which causes
> further timeouts, etc.
> 
> I think we suggested at the OpenBMC meetup in Amsterdam that we
> recommend using upstream Qemu for general testing and CI, as it
> supports most features that developers working on the BMC require.
> Booting the kernel works great, but the userspace doesn't fare so
> well.
> 
> This week's dev-4.18 changes make it much worse (I suspect the timer
> bugfix). I did some testing:
> 
>  - v3.0.0 tag: fail
>  - upstream master (b312532fd034): fail
>  - openbmc/qemu (c69dbf6af2c1): fail
>  - legoater/qemu aspeed-3.1 (0652f2642195): pass
>
> What would you recommend?

Switching to mainline. 3.1-rc0 is programmed for the first week of 
November :

	https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/3.1

> What do we need to get upstream from your tree to have 3.1 work well?

yes. I had to fix the ADC patchset which did not apply anymore btw

Cheers,

C.