Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/1] tests: Add migration test for aarch64

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Wei Huang (address@hidden) wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/04/2018 02:10 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> > Wei Huang <address@hidden> wrote:
> > But once that everybody is looking, I would like to open a discussion
> > about how to make more abstract this test, and not adding so many bits
> > each time that we need to create a new machine.
> 
> The test cases themselves are the most annoying ones. x86/aarch64 use
> assembly (converted to binaries); but ppc uses scripts. How to find a
> common solution to suite all arch's?

The asm/binaries is the main issue since reading/editing the binary is
horrible. Power's forth is tiny and almost readable.  If we want we could
move it into a separate .c file somewhere just as a string but tat's
a minor issue.

Dave

> > 
> > And once that we are here, I *think* that the ppc test is wrong, it is
> > missing the -drive-file on destination, no?
> 
> [cc'ing Laurent]
> 
> > 
> > And once here, does -cpu host make sense only for arm, or should we do
> > it for all archs?
> 
> I think x86 and aarch64 are OK with it. But I am not sure about PPC.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks, Juan.
> > 
> 
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