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From: "Laurent Desnogues" <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggestion for testing framework
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Laurent Desnogues
<laurent.desnogues@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> wrote:
>> OTOH, something like the CRIS testsuite (which was ported from GNU sim)
>> for other target architectures could be very useful.
>
> That would certainly be something very valuable but it would
> need a tremendous amount of work and would have to be
> done by a different person than the original coder (or else
> you could not catch misunderstandings of the instruction
> descriptions for instance).
>
> I would also like to point out that non ia32/x86_64 targets

I meant "hosts" instead of "targets"...

> tests were not covered by the discussion.  This probably
> represents a small percentage of qemu usage, but it
> definitely needs some kind of automated testing too.