Re: [RFC PATCH 07/11] tests/avocado: Add ppc boot tests for non-free AIX images

[Nicholas Piggin]

On Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 10:49 PM AEST, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 10/10/23 14:43, Alex Bennée wrote:
> > 
> > Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >> An AIX image can be provided by setting AIX_IMAGE environment
> >> variable when running avocado.
> >>
> >> It's questionable whether we should carry these in upstream QEMU.
> >> It's convenient to see how to run these things, but simple enough
> >> to maintain in out of tree branch. I just wanted to see opinions
> >> about it.
> > 
> > Yeah there is no point adding a test no one else can run. We already
> > have tests that utilise dead URLs that can only run if you happen to
> > have the image in the avocado cache which should arguably be removed.
>
> This isn't quite the same problem. This test image can possibly be
> shared among developers within the IBM realm.

Yeah, and other people can have AIX and MacOS legally by other means
(IIRC you could register an acount and get AIX, but that may have
changed).

We do have some people not at IBM who test AIX against upstram and
report bugs. Not too sure if they would find these avocado tests useful
though.

Thanks,
Nick