CI to stop testing meta-* layers not in tested machine

[Benjamin Fair]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 8:30 PM Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
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> > > Once we get the u-boot issue sorted out, I propose the following changes:
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> > >  - drop qemu from CI. 'qemu' is actually testing on a generic arm
> > > machine. A few of us at IBM have a side project that has resulted in a
> > > high quality Qemu support for the aspeed boards, so if you would like
> > > to test in qemu I recommend grabbing palmetto or romulus and doing
> > > that. So consider this dropping the generic qemu image and instead
> > > focusing on the aspeed one.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Many things are already broken on QEMU, including phosphor-ipmi-host.
> > It's not a useful platform to test with.
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> Is that a general statement about QEMU, or are you talking about the generic
> qemu image as Joel was?

That's specifically an issue with the generic QEMU image. It's because
the generic image doesn't include u-boot, which is a dependency of
phosphor-ipmi-host (transitively through clear-once).

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> It would be great if we had more contributions on the QEMU side. There's a
> list of things that can be attacked in the wiki:
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> https://github.com/openbmc/qemu/wiki
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> Modelling I2C peripherals is usually a good first step.
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> Andrew