Re: [PATCH v3 22/24] testing: probe gdb for supported architectures ahead of time

[Richard Henderson]

On 2/21/23 12:52, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Currently when we encounter a gdb that is old or not built with
> multiarch in mind we fail rather messily. Try and improve the
> situation by probing ahead of time and setting
> HOST_GDB_SUPPORTS_ARCH=y in the relevant tcg configs. We can then skip
> and give a more meaningful message if we don't run the test.
>
> [AJB: we still miss some arches, for example gdb uses s390 which fails
> when we look for s390x. Not sure what the best way to deal with that
> is? Maybe define a gdb_arch as we probe each target?]

I think we need to have a complete gdb -> qemu mapping.
Seems like this would be fairly easy in python...


r~