Re: [PATCH] testsuite: Split test_nocross_trixie and drop KFAIL for QEMU targets

[Zhihang Wei <wzh@ilbers.de>]

Applied to next.

Zhihang

On 2/20/26 09:04, Zhihang Wei wrote:
> "test_nocross_trixie" was previously wrapped in KFAIL, even though it
> produces QEMU artifacts which are later used by vm_start tests (not
> marked as KFAIL). As a result, failed incomplete builds were not
> reported directly and only only showed up later as failures in the
> vm_start tests, making CI debugging difficult.
>
> Recently, interrupted downloads have become more frequent when
> starfive-visionfive2-trixie pulls a 200+ MB archive from GitHub. These
> interruptions cause checksum mismatches, abort the test early, and
> prevent other QEMU targets from completing their builds. With KFAIL in
> place, this masked the actual root cause while breaking later tests.
>
> As a workaround (until a proper mirror is added for the external
> resource), split the test so that the QEMU targets are built first and
> without KFAIL, and build the hardware board targets in a separate step.
> This ensures that download issues from board-specific targets no longer
> prevent QEMU artifacts from being built, and makes QEMU build failures
> visible directly in CI.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhihang Wei <wzh@ilbers.de>
> ---
>   testsuite/citest.py | 7 ++++++-
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/testsuite/citest.py b/testsuite/citest.py
> index f11cd5af..115cdbaa 100755
> --- a/testsuite/citest.py
> +++ b/testsuite/citest.py
> @@ -954,11 +954,16 @@ class NoCrossTest(CIBaseTest):
>               'mc:qemuarm64-trixie:isar-image-base',
>               'mc:qemuarm-trixie:isar-image-base',
>               'mc:qemuriscv64-trixie:isar-image-base',
> +        ]
> +
> +        self.init()
> +        self.perform_build_test(targets, cross=False)
> +
> +        targets = [
>               'mc:sifive-fu540-trixie:isar-image-base',
>               'mc:starfive-visionfive2-trixie:isar-image-base',
>           ]
>   
> -        self.init()
>           try:
>               self.perform_build_test(targets, cross=False)
>           except exceptions.TestFail:

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