[OE-core] [RFC OE-core/meta/lib] BSP Specific Qemurunner

[Richard Purdie]

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