diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs.py
index a1791b5..4714741 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs.py
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@
         'can\'t handle BAR above 4GB',
         'Cannot reserve Legacy IO',
         ] + common_errors,
+    'qemuppc64' : [
+        'vio vio: uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent',
+        'synth uevent: /devices/vio: failed to send uevent',
+        'PCI 0000:00 Cannot reserve Legacy IO [io  0x10000-0x10fff]',
+        ] + common_errors,
     'qemuarm' : [
         'mmci-pl18x: probe of fpga:05 failed with error -22',
         'mmci-pl18x: probe of fpga:0b failed with error -22',
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/weston.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/weston.py
index a1c7183..b3a7c27 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/weston.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/weston.py
@@ -53,7 +53,11 @@
 
     @OEHasPackage(['wayland-utils'])
     def test_wayland_info(self):
-        status, output = self.target.run(self.get_weston_command('wayland-info'))
+        if 'systemd' in self.tc.td['VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager']:
+            command = 'XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run wayland-info'
+        else:
+            command = self.get_weston_command('wayland-info')
+        status, output = self.target.run(command)
         self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg='wayland-info error: %s' % output)
 
     @OEHasPackage(['weston'])
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/buildoptions.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/buildoptions.py
index 3495bee..20fe8ed 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/buildoptions.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/buildoptions.py
@@ -197,3 +197,9 @@
 
         bitbake("world --runall fetch")
 
+
+class Poisoning(OESelftestTestCase):
+    def test_poisoning(self):
+        res = bitbake("poison", ignore_status=True)
+        self.assertNotEqual(res.status, 0)
+        self.assertTrue("is unsafe for cross-compilation" in res.output)
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py
index 3f343a2..d1947ba 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py
@@ -34,3 +34,11 @@
         self.assertTrue( result ,msg="Failed to compare version with suffix '1.0b' < '1.0r'")
         result = Version("1.0b","alphabetical") > Version("1.0","alphabetical")
         self.assertTrue( result ,msg="Failed to compare version with suffix '1.0b' > '1.0'")
+
+        # consider the trailing "p" and "patch" as patched released when comparing
+        result = Version("1.0","patch") < Version("1.0p1","patch")
+        self.assertTrue( result ,msg="Failed to compare version with suffix '1.0' < '1.0p1'")
+        result = Version("1.0p2","patch") > Version("1.0p1","patch")
+        self.assertTrue( result ,msg="Failed to compare version with suffix '1.0p2' > '1.0p1'")
+        result = Version("1.0_patch2","patch") < Version("1.0_patch3","patch")
+        self.assertTrue( result ,msg="Failed to compare version with suffix '1.0_patch2' < '1.0_patch3'")
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/distrodata.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/distrodata.py
index e1cfc3b..fbc0c2a 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/distrodata.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/distrodata.py
@@ -40,6 +40,42 @@
 """ + "\n".join(regressed_successes)
         self.assertTrue(len(regressed_failures) == 0 and len(regressed_successes) == 0, msg)
 
+    def test_missing_homepg(self):
+        """
+        Summary:     Test for oe-core recipes that don't have a HOMEPAGE or DESCRIPTION
+        Expected:    All oe-core recipes should have a DESCRIPTION entry
+        Expected:    All oe-core recipes should have a HOMEPAGE entry except for recipes that are not fetched from external sources.
+        Product:     oe-core
+        """
+        with bb.tinfoil.Tinfoil() as tinfoil:
+            tinfoil.prepare(config_only=False)
+            no_description = []
+            no_homepage = []
+            for fn in tinfoil.all_recipe_files(variants=False):
+                if not '/meta/recipes-' in fn:
+                    # We are only interested in OE-Core
+                    continue
+                rd = tinfoil.parse_recipe_file(fn, appends=False)
+                pn = rd.getVar('BPN')
+                srcfile = rd.getVar('SRC_URI').split()
+                #Since DESCRIPTION defaults to SUMMARY if not set, we are only interested in recipes without DESCRIPTION or SUMMARY
+                if not (rd.getVar('SUMMARY') or rd.getVar('DESCRIPTION')):
+                    no_description.append((pn, fn))
+                if not rd.getVar('HOMEPAGE'):
+                    if srcfile and srcfile[0].startswith('file') or not rd.getVar('SRC_URI'):
+                        # We are only interested in recipes SRC_URI fetched from external sources
+                        continue
+                    no_homepage.append((pn, fn))
+        if no_homepage:
+            self.fail("""
+The following recipes do not have a HOMEPAGE. Please add an entry for HOMEPAGE in the recipe.
+""" + "\n".join(['%s (%s)' % i for i in no_homepage]))
+
+        if no_description:
+            self.fail("""
+The following recipes do not have a DESCRIPTION. Please add an entry for DESCRIPTION in the recipe.
+""" + "\n".join(['%s (%s)' % i for i in no_description]))
+
     def test_maintainers(self):
         """
         Summary:     Test that oe-core recipes have a maintainer and entries in maintainers list have a recipe
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
index 0d02594..a627573 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
@@ -29,14 +29,10 @@
 #https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/repro-fail/oe-reproducible-20210215-0_td9la2/packages/diff-html/
 exclude_packages = [
 	'glide',
-	'go-dep',
 	'go-helloworld',
 	'go-runtime',
 	'go_',
 	'go-',
-	'meson',
-	'ovmf-shell-efi',
-	'perf',
 	'ruby-ri-docs'
 	]
 
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
index 2bf5cb9..fa81584 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
@@ -979,14 +979,18 @@
     @only_for_arch(['i586', 'i686', 'x86_64'])
     def test_rawcopy_plugin_qemu(self):
         """Test rawcopy plugin in qemu"""
-        # build ext4 and wic images
-        for fstype in ("ext4", "wic"):
-            config = 'IMAGE_FSTYPES = "%s"\nWKS_FILE = "test_rawcopy_plugin.wks.in"\n' % fstype
-            self.append_config(config)
-            self.assertEqual(0, bitbake('core-image-minimal').status)
-            self.remove_config(config)
+        # build ext4 and then use it for a wic image
+        config = 'IMAGE_FSTYPES = "ext4"\n'
+        self.append_config(config)
+        self.assertEqual(0, bitbake('core-image-minimal').status)
+        self.remove_config(config)
 
-        with runqemu('core-image-minimal', ssh=False, image_fstype='wic') as qemu:
+        config = 'IMAGE_FSTYPES = "wic"\nWKS_FILE = "test_rawcopy_plugin.wks.in"\n'
+        self.append_config(config)
+        self.assertEqual(0, bitbake('core-image-minimal-mtdutils').status)
+        self.remove_config(config)
+
+        with runqemu('core-image-minimal-mtdutils', ssh=False, image_fstype='wic') as qemu:
             cmd = "grep sda. /proc/partitions  |wc -l"
             status, output = qemu.run_serial(cmd)
             self.assertEqual(1, status, 'Failed to run command "%s": %s' % (cmd, output))
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
index 77ec939..eb23dbc 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
             self.logger.error("Failed to create listening socket: %s" % msg[1])
             return False
 
-        bootparams = 'console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8 printk.time=1'
+        bootparams = ' printk.time=1'
         if extra_bootparams:
             bootparams = bootparams + ' ' + extra_bootparams