Merge tag 'pull-request-2024-09-04' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu into staging

Merge tag 'pull-request-2024-09-04' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu into staging

* Bump Avocado to version 103
* Introduce new functional test framework for Python-based tests
* Convert many Avocado tests to the new functional test framework

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* tag 'pull-request-2024-09-04' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu: (42 commits)
  docs/devel/testing: Add documentation for functional tests
  docs/devel/testing: Rename avocado_qemu.Test class
  docs/devel/testing: Split the Avocado documentation into a separate file
  docs/devel: Split testing docs from the build docs and move to separate folder
  gitlab-ci: Add "check-functional" to the build tests
  tests/avocado: Remove unused QemuUserTest class
  tests/functional: Convert ARM bFLT linux-user avocado test
  tests/functional: Add QemuUserTest class
  tests/functional: Convert mips64el Fuloong2e avocado test (1/2)
  tests/functional: Convert Aarch64 Virt machine avocado tests
  tests/functional: Convert Aarch64 SBSA-Ref avocado tests
  tests/functional: Convert ARM Integrator/CP avocado tests
  tests/functional: Convert the linux_initrd avocado test into a standalone test
  tests/functional: Convert the rx_gdbsim avocado test into a standalone test
  tests/functional: Convert the acpi-bits test into a standalone test
  tests/functional: Convert the m68k nextcube test with tesseract
  tests/functional: Convert the ppc_hv avocado test into a standalone test
  tests/functional: Convert the ppc_amiga avocado test into a standalone test
  tests/functional: Convert most ppc avocado tests into standalone tests
  tests/functional: Convert the virtio_gpu avocado test into a standalone test
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>