From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:01:14 +0000 Message-ID: <20170314160113.GM2445@work-vm> References: <87tw6y8bs8.fsf@secure.mitica> <20170314081312.GB13140@stefanha-x1.localdomain> <87wpbstesf.fsf@secure.mitica> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Peter Maydell , Stefan Hajnoczi , QEMU Developer , KVM devel mailing list To: Juan Quintela Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:41014 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750853AbdCNQBS (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:01:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wpbstesf.fsf@secure.mitica> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Juan Quintela (quintela@redhat.com) wrote: > Peter Maydell wrote: > > On 14 March 2017 at 09:13, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:02:01AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> The minimum requirements for the new language: > >> 1. Does it support the host operating systems that QEMU runs on? > >> 2. Does it support the host architectures that QEMU runs on? > > > > Speaking of this, I was thinking that we should introduce > > a rule that for any host OS/arch we support we must have > > a build machine so we can at least do a compile test. > > For instance if you believe configure we support Solaris > > and AIX, but I bet they're bit-rotting. The ia64 backend > > has to be a strong candidate for being dumped too. > > Demanding "system we can test on or we drop support" > > would let us more clearly see what we're actually running > > on and avoid unnecessarily ruling things out because they > > don't support Itanium or AIX... > > YES, YES and YES. > > I demand an osX build machine NOW!!!! Remote access is ok. > > Now more seriously, I can (relatively easy) compile test my pull > requests with: > - linux x86 (latest fedora, but I can get an older one if needed) > - linux x86_64 (latest fedor,, but the same) > - mingw64 32bit (latest fedora, but here I have the problem that Peter > uses a different crosscompiler than me) > - mingw64 32bit (the same) > > But for the rest, I need to wait that somebody told me that it breaks > the build. Normally it is things like size_t is 32bit instead of 64bit > or some stupid things like that, that are trivial to fix if I can > compile there before doing the pull submission. I also do a FreeBSD VM, and grab an aarch64 and/or PPC bigendian host to test on. (I could grab an ia64 host, but I don't think I could find anything to install on it that would be new enough for the rest of our build requirements). Dave > Later, Juan. > -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK