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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 7:11 PM WANG Xuerui <i.qemu@xen0n.name> wrote:
> On 9/25/21 23:20, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > 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.

There is no hurry ;)