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From: | Cédric Le Goater |
Subject: | Re: Getting rid of the last bits of QEMU's 'ad-hoc CI' for merges |
Date: | Mon, 16 May 2022 16:50:29 +0200 |
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On 5/16/22 15:55, Peter Maydell wrote:
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.
Since the P8 have been around (~2014), the focus is really on LE. I think debian is the last distro still providing BE binaries. But no iso, you have to start with a debian 1O and do the upgrade.
If BE PPC is fading away then that's another argument for living with the loss of CI coverage, I guess.
yes. It would good to keep a BE host for test coverage. It doesn't have to be ppc64be if it is too complex to maintain. I can help on setting up a debian BE sid vm on the above IBM POWER8 8284-22A system if you need to. I have an image ready to use. Thanks, C.
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