Re: [PATCH v5 04/30] tcg/loongarch64: Add generated instruction opcodes and encoding helpers

[WANG Xuerui <i.qemu@xen0n.name>]

Hi Richard,

On 9/25/21 23:20, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Adding Alex to the Cc list re docker testing.
>
> On 9/25/21 10:31 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Xuerui said on the cover 1/ we can buy a board on Taobao and 2/ Loongson
>> might help the community with hardware.
>>
>> I tried 1/, spend more than 2h to read a translated version of the EULA,
>> succeeded at the SMS verification, but then when I tried to log in to
>> search for boards my account got banned with no explanation. This
>> doesn't seem easy to use outside of China, so I guess we're back on 2/.
>>
>> Cc'ing other QEMU Loongson contributors in case they might give us ideas
>> about how to add this arch into our CI.
>
> It does seem like a good idea to have some sort of testing in place.
>
> Perhaps build upon debian-hexagon-cross.docker to set up a cross-build 
> environment for loongarch.  Add just enough more that it's good for a 
> full cross-build of qemu (glib and pixman?).
>
> Like the hexagon docker image, the build time would be substantial, so 
> we'd push a golden copy to the qemu-project repo.
Testing is of course very important for infra projects, including qemu; 
I'll craft something and post a followup series later. I'll need maybe 2 
or 3 days; the entirety of cross toolchain must be built, and I'm doing 
all these in spare time, usually midnight.
>
>
> r~