Improve QEMU test coverage

Registered by Peter Maydell

At the moment we have a very basic automated continuous integration setup: it builds qemu-linaro from git and confirms that two images (beagle, versatile) boot OK. We should extend this to cover other architectures, linux-user testing, and ARM correctness testing. We should also set up automated benchmarking of builds so that we can track whether performance is improving or not.

We had a session at UDS-O which covered this. If we can provide straightforward instructions for what needs testing the validation team should be able to set something up either via jenkins or abrek or both.

Blueprint information

Status:
Started
Approver:
Michael Hope
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
Peter Maydell
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
None
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for trunk
Implementation:
Started
Milestone target:
milestone icon backlog
Started by
Michael Hope

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michaelh put this in the backlog as some has been done but the main remains.

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Work Items

Work items:
write requirements email to send to Paul Larson etc: DONE
identify useful benchmarks and tests, and sort them by order of bang-for-the-buck: TODO
send validation folk necessary info, command lines, minor wrapper scripts: TODO

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