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Tsirkin" To: Alex =?iso-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= Cc: Ani Sinha , 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: <20221021053828-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20221020083810-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20221020084311-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20221020150857-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20221021042449-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <87k04t7ca6.fsf@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87k04t7ca6.fsf@linaro.org> 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 10:30:09AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Ani Sinha writes: > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 2:02 PM Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >> > >> 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? > > > > I am not talking about branches in QEMU but branches in bits. > > If you are going to test multiple platforms, you do need to build bits > > binaries for them. There is no way around it. > > bits is not all platform independent python. It does have binary executables. > > > > Currently bits is built only for the x86 platform. Other platforms are > > not tested. I doubt if anyone even tried building bits for arm or > > mips. > > I'm not worried about test bits on other targets, but we do run x86 > targets on a number of hosts. The current reliance on a special patched > host build tool for only one architecture is the problem. If we just > download the iso that problem goes away. 👍what he said. > > It makes sense to try things incrementally once we have something going. > > > > Lets discuss this on a separate thread. > > > >> 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 > >> > > > -- > Alex Bennée