On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 03:09 +0000, Sipke Vriend wrote: > Hi, > > This RFC is a proposal to allow BSP layers to setup qemu with their specific > requirements for the testimage oe-core functionality. > The suggested changes will be exercised by the > bitbake -c testimage <image> > command. > Similarly to the oeqa test cases this proposal extends the meta/lib/oeqa > python modules to allow inclusion of python utility scripts in the BSP > layers. > Any BSP layer wishing to supply their own qemu setup would need to create > an appropriate meta-bsplayer/lib/oeqa/utils/<machine>starter.py > The effect is that the lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner will either allow the > bsp layer provided <machine>starter to spawn qemu or if not provided, > spawn qemu via runqemu as currently. > An example bsp layer is available here: > https://github.com/sipke/meta-xilinx/tree/sipke/qemurunner > with all required additions in the meta-xilinx/lib directory. > > This RFC is triggered by and indirectly related to > Bugzilla report "runqemu shouldn't hard-code machine knowledge" > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4827
Why would we do this rather than improve runqemu to be extendable from BSP layers? Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
