[Feature]: Add QEMU Supported Version Check/Process

[makubacki]

Feature Overview

Older QEMU versions do not work with the latest FW code. Newer QEMU version sometimes have regressions and MMIs fail, etc. The QEMU version dictates whether firmware from the repo will succeed or fail.

A common solution to matching a supported version of QEMU was to simply use whatever version CI is using. However, this might lead to inconvenient updates, make it difficult to find matching versions in source history, and some people don't know how to find the version used in CI.

Solution Overview

• Inform the user if they are using an incompatible QEMU version.
• Manage the version in source control, so at any given point in source history a compatible QEMU version for that point is known.
• Ideally, make the QEMU version available in an external dependency, so the binaries for a given point in time are immediately known.

Alternatives Considered

No response

Urgency

Low

Are you going to implement the feature request?

Someone else needs to implement the feature

Do you need maintainer feedback?

No maintainer feedback needed

Anything else?

No response

[makubacki]

@Javagedes mentioned he might be interested. Please take it up if you still are and have time.

[Javagedes]

#852 will add a workflow to generate an external dependency containing qemu for Windows and Linux, that will be used by default when compiling platforms in this repository.

#851 will add the logic to consume the external dependency.

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This issue has been automatically been closed because it did not have any activity in 45 days and no follow up within 7 days after being marked stale. Thank you for your contributions.