From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGF7f-0004M0-Mb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:28:55 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGF7d-0004Lj-AT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:28:54 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57969 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGF7d-0004Lg-4N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:28:53 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]:49923) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KGF7c-0000kN-QY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:28:53 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] ARM test generator Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:28:48 +0100 References: <761ea48b0807080535h4dadd1eev8c076bfb86f72e92@mail.gmail.com> <200807081426.43774.paul@codesourcery.com> <761ea48b0807080752m729b9892sd997347f6f4462b9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <761ea48b0807080752m729b9892sd997347f6f4462b9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807081628.49314.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Laurent Desnogues > For test-ref.txt generation, the solution is trivial: use real hardware. > As long as you are not testing unpredictable or implementation > defined behaviours, that can be considered as a reference that > qemu should match. For any reasonable coverage test I'd expect test-ref.txt to be huge, which makes testing without reference hardware infeasible (and certainly not suitable for inclusion in qemu SVN). AFAIK For ARMv7 then there are currently zero generally available hardware platforms, and ARMv6 hardware is still fairly rare. Paul