Re: [PATCH 0/3] automation: build qemu-system-aarch64 and use it for tests

[Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 02:58:38PM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently we are using Debian's qemu-system-aarch64 for our tests.
> However, sometimes it crashes. See for instance
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/andyhhp/xen/-/jobs/939556527. It
> is hard to debug and even harder to apply any fixes to it.
> 
> Instead, build our own QEMU as one of our test-artifacts, which are only
> built once, then imported into each pipeline via phony jobs. Use the
> provided qemu-system-aarch64 binary for our arm64 tests.
> 
> 
> Stefano Stabellini (3):
>       automation: add qemu-system-aarch64 to test-artifacts
>       automation: add a job to import qemu-system-aarch64 into the pipeline
>       automation: use test-artifacts/qemu-system-aarch64 instead of Debian's

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>

I do wonder if there is a way to not build QEMU during every pipeline
run though...