Hi Markus, On 3/12/19 6:36 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Dear board code maintainers, > > This is a (rather late) follow-up to the last QEMU summit. Minutes[*]: > > * Deprecating unmaintained features (devices, targets, backends) in QEMU > > QEMU has a mechanism to deprecate features but there remains a lot of > old unmaintained code. Refactoring is hindered by untested legacy > code, so there is a desire to deprecate unmaintained features more > often. > > [...] > > We should require at least a minimal test for each board; if nobody > cares enough to come up with one, that board should be deprecated. > > [...] > > Also see the qemu-devel discussion about deprecating code: > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-10/msg05828.html. > > That's a link to "Minutes of KVM Forum BoF on deprecating stuff". > Quote: > > * One obvious class of candidates for removal is machines we don't know > how to boot, or can't boot, say because we lack required firmware > and/or OS. > > Of course, "can boot" should be an automated test. As a first step > towards that, we should at least document how to boot each machine. > We're going to ask machine maintainers to do that. > > Let's get going on this. > > 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: <20190312121150.8638-1-cr...@redhat.com> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg03881.html > > * Maybe identify a few machines we don't know how to boot anymore. > > Thanks in advance for your help!
How do you want to proceed with all the information provided in this thread? I think a big table in the wiki collecting the answers is ideal. What do you think? Regards, Phil.
