Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for deprecating unsupported host OSes & architecutures

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 22/03/2017 14:09, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 22 March 2017 at 12:51, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>>> ...unfortunately the gcc compile farm mips board (1) is very slow
>>> and (2) has very little disk space free in /tmp, which means that
>>> it can't pass "make check" because for instance tests/test-replication
>>> assumes it can write comparatively large test files to /tmp/...
>>
>> That makes it sound like a mips cross build or mips linux-user powered
>> image would be useful then?
> 
> Cross build can't actually run 'make check' and I wouldn't
> trust linux-user to run our test suite. Also, if there's
> no hardware that we can sensibly do make/make check
> on then how much can people really care about QEMU on MIPS?
> (In fact since MIPS supports KVM these days, there really
> ought to be sufficiently capable hardware to work as
> a build system.)

I own a MIPS Creator ci20 board (donated by Imagination Technologies).
I cannot give it a public IP address, but I can try and use it to do
builds every now and then.

Paolo