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Tsirkin" , Beraldo Leal , Cleber Rosa , =?utf-8?Q?Daniel_P_=2E_Berrang=C3=A9?= , Igor Mammedov , John Snow , Maydell Peter , Paolo Bonzini , Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , Qemu Devel , Thomas Huth , Wainer dos Santos Moschetta Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Introduce new acpi/smbios avocado tests using biosbits Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:30:09 +0100 In-reply-to: Message-ID: <87k04t7ca6.fsf@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::333; envelope-from=alex.bennee@linaro.org; helo=mail-wm1-x333.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, 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" 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 f= or those >> > platforms so that bits can run there. Plus the existing test can be en= hanced 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 executab= les. > > 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. > 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 >> --=20 Alex Benn=C3=A9e