Re: [Qemu-devel] Maintainers, please tell us how to boot your machines!

[Markus Armbruster]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> writes:

> On 5/17/19 7:42 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> How do you want to proceed with all the information provided in this
>>> thread? I think a big table in the wiki collecting the answers is ideal.
>>> What do you think?
>> 
>> Yes, please!  I haven't been able to find the time...
>
> I gathered all the information from this thread here:
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Testing/Acceptance#Machines
> (with a link in https://wiki.qemu.org/Testing#System_emulation).
>
> I also added other info I collected during 4.2 merge window.

Awesome.

What shall we do about the machine types that are not in this table?
Random example: nios2 machine 10m50-ghrd.

> Should we suggest a new policy that new machines must have a test?

I think that's fair.

> I'll later purpose some idea to deal with machines only running non
> opensource code.

Yes, please.

> I think most of the data from the acceptance tests we have could be
> generated (json?) and we could concat with another manual maintained
> json (or yaml to json?) to have this table easily updatable on the wiki.
> Now I remember why I had forgotten about HTML, it is painful to edit.

Also, it's prone to rot.

Generating the green rows from actual tests should avoid rot.  The other
rows need to come from somewhere else, though.

>
> Thanks all for sharing this information.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil.