[LEDE-DEV] Testing ARM images

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Oct 25, 2017, at 8:32 PM, Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 26 October 2017 at 08:08, Philip Prindeville
> <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> I was recently working on updating Perl 5.26.1 which required making machine-specific parameters for cross-builds (because Perl doesn’t use autoconf), and was able to test for x86_64 on KVM/libvirt, but have not tried any other platforms (well, I built armvirt but haven’t run anything in a Qemu emulator).
>> 
>> Can someone please update the Wiki to include:
>> 
>> (1) what parameters to set when building a LEDE image like CONFIG_TARGET_xxxx, CONFIG_TARGET_BOARD, CONFIG_ARCH, etc.
> 
> I got two defconfigs for malta and armvirt at github
> 
> - https://github.com/yousong/gists/blob/master/lede/defconfig/malta-mini-be
> - https://github.com/yousong/gists/blob/master/lede/defconfig/armvirt-mini
> 
>> 
>> (2) also image parameters
>> 
>> (3) how to provision the VM itself, perhaps including the XML for virsh/libvirt.
>> 
> 
> scripts/qemustart can serve as a quickstart guide on running in QEMU machine.
> 
> Regards,
>                yousong


Thanks.  Was hoping for a .xml template for “virsh” that I could use with “virsh define my_arm.xml” to provision.

-Philip