Re: [PATCH 14/18] tests/docker: drop debian-tricore-cross's partial status

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes:

> On 1/19/23 08:04, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This image is perfectly capable of building QEMU, and indeed we do
>> that on gitlab. Drop the DOCKER_PARTIAL_IMAGES setting so we can also
>> test the gitlab build locally.
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée<alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>   tests/docker/Makefile.include | 1 -
>>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> Why are we doing so, though?

Only so I could debug what was failing upstream.

> Unlike the other container-cross.yml jobs, we are not cross-compiling.
> We are building for an x86_64 host, not a tricore host.
>
> We appear to be using this container simply to provide a
> cross-compiler for compiling tricore tests.  Which is fine, I suppose,
> but I think the job should be modeled more like build-some-softmmu,
> instead of modeled like a cross-build.

It's just to work around the fact we don't have QEMU test coverage for
our debian-all-test-cross because of the custom binutils bits. That's
why it gained the ability to build QEMU (albeit just one target).

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro