Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Acceptance tests: host arch to target arch name mapping

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:34:41PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 17 October 2018 at 00:22, Cleber Rosa <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The host arch name is not always the target arch name, so it's
> > necessary to have a mapping.
> >
> > The configure scripts contains what is the authoritative and failproof
> > mapping, but, reusing it is not straightforward, so it's replicated in
> > the acceptance tests supporting code.
> 
> So, why does the test code need to care? It's not clear
> from the patch... My expectation would be that you'd
> just test all the testable target architectures,
> regardless of what the host architecture is.

I tend to agree.  Maybe the right solution is to get rid of the
os.uname().  I think the default should be testing all QEMU
binaries that were built, and the host architecture shouldn't
matter.

That said, I think the dictionary is a nice temporary workaround
until we fix that.

-- 
Eduardo