• autopkgtest qemu kvm with gic-version=max

    From Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 18 07:10:01 2023
    Hi,

    my machine is powered by an ARM Cortex A53 and to get kvm acceleration with qemu I need to pass gic-version=max via qemu's -machine option. This is not done by autopkgtest-virt-qemu and as a result, tcg emulation is so slow that autopkgtest reaches a timeout while waiting for the emulated system to boot.

    I submitted a merge request to autopkgtest which passes gic-version=max on arm64:

    https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests/239

    Could somebody who knows about this topic reply to this merge request and state whether doing so is a stupid or smart idea and why?

    Thanks!

    cheers, josch
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