[yocto] [meta-xilinx] xen-image-minimal testing

[Manjukumar Harthikote Matha]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Rossi [mailto:nathan at nathanrossi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 10:23 AM
> To: Manjukumar Harthikote Matha <MANJUKUM at xilinx.com>
> Cc: Jason Wu <jason.wu.misc at gmail.com>; Pello Heriz
> <pello.heriz at alumni.mondragon.edu>; meta-xilinx at yoctoproject.org; meta-xilinx-
> request at yoctoproject.org; meta-virtualization at yoctoproject.org;
> yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-xilinx] xen-image-minimal testing
>
> On 3 May 2017 at 02:47, Manjukumar Harthikote Matha <manjukumar.harthikote-
> matha at xilinx.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: meta-xilinx-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-xilinx-
> >> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Jason Wu
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 2:16 AM
> >> To: Pello Heriz <pello.heriz at alumni.mondragon.edu>; meta-
> >> xilinx at yoctoproject.org; meta-xilinx-request at yoctoproject.org; meta-
> >> virtualization at yoctoproject.org; yocto at yoctoproject.org
> >> Subject: Re: [meta-xilinx] xen-image-minimal testing
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2/05/2017 4:33 PM, Pello Heriz wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I have built an image using "xen-image-minimal" command with Yocto
> >> > and I would want to know how can I test if xen functionalities are
> >> > correct or not with Zynq MPSoC QEMU. How can I do this?
> >> http://www.wiki.xilinx.com/Building+the+Xen+Hypervisor+with+PetaLinux
> >> +2016.4+
> >> and+newer
> >>
> >> have look at the "TFTP Booting Xen and Dom0 2016.4" section and hope that
> helps.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Anyway, I have seen that sometimes in the QEMU terminal appears the
> >> > next message when the mentioned image is launched by "runqemu zcu102".
> >> >
> >> > INIT: Id "X0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> >> >
> >> > What's the meaning of the message? Is it critical?
> >> It is not critical if you don't need it. The reason you are getting
> >> this error message is because the your inittab trying spawn a console
> >> when the device node (e.g. hvc0) for Id "X0" does not exists.
> >>
> >
> > Is there a way to stop inittab from doing this?
> > Tried few options for initiab, for ex: using "once" instead of "spawn"
> >
> > Any other good ideas on how we can disable it? Or what is a better
> > approach to resolve this issue during runtime
>
> Change the sysvinit-inittab bbappend in meta-virtualization use start_getty instead
> of just getty, start_getty does a 'test -c' before starting getty on the device. This is
> how sysvinit-inittab handles SERIAL_CONSOLES. Alternatively the meta-virtualization
> bbappend could just expand SERIAL_CONSOLES.
>
Something like this?
https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-virtualization/commit/610887495c01f0b17db6084e1426cc55a3f806ea

We still see initab looking for console even after this change

Thanks
Manju


> Regards,
> Nathan


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