Re: [PATCH 0/2] Allwinner H3 fixes for EMAC and acceptance tests

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Hi Niek and QEMU community,

On 2/11/21 11:00 PM, Niek Linnenbank wrote:
> The following are maintenance patches for the Allwinner H3. The first patch
> is a proposal to relocate the binary artifacts of the acceptance tests away
> from the apt.armbian.com domain. In the past we had problems with artifacts 
> being
> removed, and now the recently added Armbian 20.08.1 image has been removed as 
> well:
> 
> $ wget 
> https://dl.armbian.com/orangepipc/archive/Armbian_20.08.1_Orangepipc_bionic_current_5.8.5.img.xz
> Connecting to dl.armbian.com (dl.armbian.com)|2605:7900:20::5|:443... 
> connected.
> ...
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 2021-02-11 22:34:45 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> 
> I've now added the artifacts to a server maintained by me. The machine has a 
> stable
> uptime of several years, ~100Mbit bandwidth and plenty of available storage.
> Also for other artifacts if needed. I'm open to discuss if there is a proposal
> for a better location for these artifacts or a more generic qemu location.

Thanks for trying to fix this long standing problem.

While this works in your case, this doesn't scale to the community,
as not all contributors have access to such hardware and bandwidth /
storage.

While your first patch is useful in showing where the artifacts are
stored doesn't matter - as long as we use cryptographic hashes - I
think it is a step in the wrong direction, so I am not keen on
accepting it.

My personal view is that any contributor should have the same
possibilities to add tests to the project. Now I am also open to
discuss with the others :) I might be proven wrong, and it could
be better to rely on good willing contributors rather than having
nothing useful at all.

Regards,

Phil.