Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 03:48:27PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: >> This might be premature but while streamling the avocado tests I >> realised the only tests we have are "check-tcg" ones. The aging >> fedora-criss-cross image works well enough for developers but can't be >> used in CI as we need supported build platforms to build QEMU. >> >> Does this mean the writing is on the wall for this architecture? >> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@xxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> docs/about/deprecated.rst | 11 +++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst >> index dc4da95329..7cfe313aa6 100644 >> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst >> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst >> @@ -399,6 +399,17 @@ Specifying the iSCSI password in plain text on the command line using the >> used instead, to refer to a ``--object secret...`` instance that provides >> a password via a file, or encrypted. >> >> +TCG CPUs >> +-------- >> + >> +CRIS CPU architecture (since 8.1) >> +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' >> + >> +The CRIS architecture was pulled from Linux in 4.17 and the compiler >> +is no longer packaged in any distro making it harder to run the >> +``check-tcg`` tests. Unless we can improve the testing situation there >> +is a chance the code will bitrot without anyone noticing. > > Deprecated is generally a warning that we intend to delete the > feature. If we're just going to relegate it to untested > status (what I'd call "tier 3" quality), then we should document > that elsewhere. I don't mind which way we go. We do have reasonably good coverage with tests/tcg/cris but of course without a compiler we can't build them. Both nios2 and microblaze have build-toolchain scripts which can be used to re-create containers. However my preference is having pre-built toolchains hosted by others like we do for loongarch, hexagon, xtensa and tricore. Then the docker image can simply curl them into an image. -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
