Re: [Qemu-devel] Maintainers, please tell us how to boot your machines!

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 18:36:05 +0100
Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:

(...)
> I gathered the machine types, mapped them to source files, which I fed
> to get_maintainer.pl.  Results are appended.  If you're cc'ed,
> MAINTAINERS fingers you for at least one machine type's source file.
> Please tell us for all of them how to to a "meaningful" boot test.
> 
> For now, what's "meaningful" is entirely up to you.  Booting Linux
> certainly is.
> 
> Make sure to include a complete QEMU command line.  If your QEMU command
> line requires resources beyond the QEMU source tree and what we build
> from it, please detail them, and provide download URLs as far as
> possible.
> 
> Goals for this exercise:
> 
> * Gather information we need to cover more machines in our automated
>   testing.
> 
>   Related work:
>   [PATCH v4 00/19] Acceptance Tests: target architecture support
>   Message-Id: <address@hidden>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg03881.html

FWIW, there's already a test for s390x in that patch set.

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>     = hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c =
>     Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> (supporter:S390 Virtio-ccw)
>     Halil Pasic <address@hidden> (supporter:S390 Virtio-ccw)
>     Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden> (supporter:S390 Virtio-ccw)
>     Richard Henderson <address@hidden> (maintainer:S390)
>     David Hildenbrand <address@hidden> (maintainer:S390)
>     address@hidden (open list:S390 Virtio-ccw)

I have updated
https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/S390X#Minimal_command-line
with instructions how to boot the 'moonbuggy' image from the 2014
advent calendar; that one is a nice, quick test.