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Tsirkin" To: Ani Sinha Cc: Alex =?iso-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= , Beraldo Leal , Cleber Rosa , Daniel P =?iso-8859-1?Q?=2E_Berrang=E9?= , Igor Mammedov , John Snow , Maydell Peter , Paolo Bonzini , Philippe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu-Daud=E9?= , Qemu Devel , Thomas Huth , Wainer dos Santos Moschetta Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Introduce new acpi/smbios avocado tests using biosbits Message-ID: <20221021042449-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20221020123506.26363-1-ani@anisinha.ca> <20221020083810-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20221020084311-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20221020150857-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.133.124; envelope-from=mst@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -23 X-Spam_score: -2.4 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.251, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 05:45:15AM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote: > And have multiple platform specific branches in bits that have fixes for those > platforms so that bits can run there. Plus the existing test can be enhanced to > pull in binaries from those branches based on the platform on which it is being > run. > What a mess. Who is going to be testing all these million platforms? All this does nothing at all to help developers avoid bugs and when they do trigger debug the issue. Which is after all why we have testing. Yes once in a very long while we are going to tweak something in the tests, and for that rare occurence it makes sense to periodically rebuild everything, otherwise code bitrots. But the test is supposed to run within a VM anyway, let's have an image and be done with it. -- MST