Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 00/19] Cleanup of TCG tests

[Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>]

Peter Maydell writes:

> On 1 December 2016 at 05:14, Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This patch series cleans up the tcg tests in tests/tcg folder.
>
>>  linux-user/mmap.c                       |  27 +++---
>>  linux-user/syscall.c                    |   2 +-
>
> These aren't test code -- it would probably be better not
> to mix actual bug fixes up in a series that's mostly trying
> to fix up test code.

OK, I will send these in a separate series.

>
> I'd still like to see what the plan is for having this
> actually work given that you don't know whether there's a
> cross-toolchain available. That's the fundamental reason
> why these tests have been left to bitrot.

The current idea is to call these tests explicitly with the cross
compiler passed as an argument. We can, at the very least, download the cross
compilers and enable the tests in travis.

Thanks,
-- 
Pranith