[OE-core] [PATCH 3/3] image/testimage: Rework auto image test execution

[Alexander Kanavin]

2018-06-19 16:06 GMT+03:00 Paulo Neves <ptsneves at gmail.com>:
> I support this patch and I see that one of the problems in sumo is
> fixed, namely the HOSTTOOLS missing ip and ping.
> Even so there is one HOSTTOOLS that is missing, ifconfig. As far as I
> know the automatic network setup scripts of runqemu require ifconfig
> for 192.168.7.1 tap setting. Without ifconfig the virtual machine
> cannot be spawned.
>
> Also, given the lack of the HOSTTOOLS in the sumo version i have, how
> is this being tested?
>
> I also would like to discuss the possibility of testing u-boot in a
> virtual machine. I have a setup where I am able to pass to qemu,
> u-boot.bin as a bios file, and then I am able to boot from tftp
> enabled qemu network device. This allows for unification of test setup
> of virtualized and real target booting. Do you have any integration
> like this in the plans?

Paulo, I would recommend that you prepare the patches for all of these
things, and send them. Yocto is what you make it, don't expect things
to get fixed for you by other people.

Alex