Re: Getting rid of the last bits of QEMU's 'ad-hoc CI' for merges

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 16 May 2022 at 14:51, Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> wrote:
>
> On 5/16/22 14:43, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > I think we can get away with just dropping ppc64be -- we have
> > coverage for it as a cross-compile setup, and hopefully the
> > s390x CI runner will catch the various "fails tests on big-endian host"
> > issues. (Alternatively if anybody has a ppc64be machine they'd like
> > to let us run a gitlab CI runner on, we could do that :-))
>
> No recent HW (P8 and above) would run a PPC64 BE distro if LE is
> supported by HW.

FWIW, the machine I use for ad-hoc CI is one in the gcc compile
farm, which is supposedly a "IBM POWER8 8284-22A", running Debian sid.

If BE PPC is fading away then that's another argument for
living with the loss of CI coverage, I guess.

thanks
-- PMM