Re: Help improve 32-bit testing

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 25/06/2024 01.33, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I've just discovered a 32-bit build issue that is probably 3 weeks old.
> 
> While we still support 32-bit builds at all, I would request that we improve 
> our cross-i686 testing.  For instance: we have cross-i686-user and 
> cross-i686-tci.  There is some system build testing in the tci job, but 
> (rightfully) not everything.

System emulation on 32-bit x86 hosts is marked as deprecated since QEMU 8.0 
... maybe we could finally remove it instead?

> I would like a full cross-i686-system target that builds all targets, and I 
> would like the debian-i686-cross image on which we base these to be more 
> complete -- ideally, exactly matching x86_64.  In particular, CONFIG_SEV is 
> not detected within the current docker image, which is where the current 
> build error is located.
> 
> Do you have time to look at this?

If you really, really want to go a step backwards, then basically just 
revert commit 4f9a8315e65561bafa03651518aa5d22af09bdee and use the 
i686-debian-cross-container image instead of the removed 
i386-fedora-cross-container image.

  HTH,
   Thomas