On 18/11/2019 12.32, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > On 18.11.19 12:21, Thomas Huth wrote: >> On 18/11/2019 12.11, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>> For what its worth (maybe a future patch) travis has now alpha s390x build support >>> https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/multi-cpu-architectures >>> >>> I think the number of instances for s390 is still limited, but it works for open >>> source software. >> >> I already tried that... Unfortunately the LXD containers that they use >> on s390x (and ppc64 and arm64) are rather limited - you can't use KVM >> here on Travis, unlike with x86. >> >> So the only advantage of adding a s390x build here is that we'd check >> native builds instead of using the cross compiler... not sure whether >> that gives us that much more of test coverage for the kvm-unit-tests... > > Right. It might be more useful for the qemu travis build? Yes, it might be useful for QEMU. But there are some issues to be solved first, e.g. some tests of QEMU are failing there in very weird ways (I guess it's because some system calls are blocked in the LXD container). Thomas
