[yocto] [PATCH 0/1] script/runqemu: change boot command line for qemuppc

[Liming Wang]

This patch is just a workaround to speed up boot time of qemuppc, because
qemuppc has no framebuffer support, no need to start X server for qemuppc.

Richard suggested to fix the X scripts so that if an fbdev X server is in use and
the framebuffer device node does not exist, it just exits cleanly with a
suitable message and doesn't timeout on boot.

But I think it needs more time to implement and test.
> X scripts serve for all the boards. And we also can't assume all the
> boards use the same
> framebuffer device. So how to detect whether the framebuffer device
> exists is board dependent.
> Maybe we can see whether the device /dev/fb0 exists(it could be created
> manually, so we should try to open it to verify)
> or the file /proc/fb exists to confirm the framebuffer device. Anyway,
> any modification should be
> tested on all boards to see whether it works. I prefer to mark it as
> todo task in 1.1

Bruce also suggests:
> I know I'm ok with this strategy, since time is short in the
> 1.1 cycle. We can always open a bugzilla item to track this,
> just to be sure it isn't forgotten. Preferably we'll get a
> qemuppc with a framebuffer in 1.x timeframe and we won't need
> this at all. Coming up with something generic and the amount
> of testing required doesn't fit the timeframe that we currently
> have for 1.1.


Liming Wang (1):
      script/runqemu: change boot command line for qemuppc

 scripts/runqemu-internal |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)