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From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.10] boot-serial-test: prefer tcg
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 22/08/2017 10:47, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 22 August 2017 at 02:09, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:18:07PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 16 August 2017 at 11:51, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> On 16/08/2017 10:26, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>>>>> Prefer to use the tcg accelarator if it is available: This is our only
>>>>> real smoke test for tcg, and fast enough to use it for that.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure this is required for 2.10.  Yes, it means the coverage from
>>>> "make check" is worse, but that's it.
>>>
>>> Yes, I'd put it under "if we need to roll an rc4 anyway for
>>> some more significant bug we might as well put this in too,
>>> but it doesn't merit cutting rc4 by itself."
>>
>> It does entirely break "make check" on a ppc host.  And that in turn
>> has held up my testing cycle for a couple of ppc regressions from 2.9
>> that I was hoping to squeeze in.  Does that change your calculations?
> 
> I have a PPC64 box in my standard set of build tests, and it
> runs 'make check' without problems...

You need to use KVM HV to have the problem, not KVM PR.
Is that the case?

Laurent