On 17/11/22 13:19, Alex Bennée wrote:
The boot_linux tests download and run a full cloud image boot and
start a full distro. While the ability to test the full boot chain is
worthwhile it is perhaps a little too heavy weight and causes issues
in CI. Fix this by dropping the TCG tests in boot_linux and replacing
them with a alpine linux ISO boot in machine_aarch64_virt.
This boots a fully loaded -cpu max with all the bells and whistles in
41s on my machine. A full debug build takes around 250s on my machine
so we set a more generous timeout to cover that.
We do drop testing for lesser GIC versions although there is some
coverage for that already in the boot_xen.py tests. If we want to
introduce more comprehensive testing we can do it with a custom kernel
and initrd rather than a full distro boot.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <[email protected]>
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tests/avocado/boot_linux.py | 43 +++++--------------------
tests/avocado/machine_aarch64_virt.py | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
I'd rather keep the current tests but:
1/ rename them as '_cloud_image',
2/ skip them on CI
and 3/ add the '_alpine' tests to run on CI.
