From 779e407a80a1d38dba0f8b97763c460602e9bd9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Opdenacker Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:44:25 +0200 Subject: migration-guides: mention runqemu change in serial port management Plus a minor whitespace fix change (From yocto-docs rev: 6f7e1b935168464b4682a8687aa6d031a1a9fb73) Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker Reported-by: Mark Hatle Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation') diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst index c47d09a1ae..3fa131ef0c 100644 --- a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst +++ b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst @@ -108,11 +108,27 @@ The following classes have been removed in this release: .. _migration-4.3-misc-changes: +QEMU changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- The ``runqemu`` script no longer systematically adds two serial ports + (``--serial null`` and ``-serial mon:stdio``) to the QEMU emulated machine + if the user already adds such ports through the ``QB_OPT_APPEND`` setting. + + If the user adds one port, only ``--serial null`` is added, and + ``-serial mon:stdio`` is no longer passed. If the user adds more than one + port, ``--serial null`` is no longer added either. This can break some + existing QEMU based configurations expecting such serial ports to be added + when ``runqemu`` is executed. + + This change was made to avoid exceeding two serial ports, which interferes + with automated testing. + QA check changes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- The fetcher in ``lib/bb/tests/fetch.py`` now uses the ``https`` protocol - instead of ``git``, whenever possible. +- The fetcher in ``lib/bb/tests/fetch.py`` now uses the ``https`` protocol + instead of ``git``, whenever possible. Miscellaneous changes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf