Re: [PATCH 5/5] travis.yml: Compile on arm64, too

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 09/10/2019 21.06, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 10/9/19 7:07 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> Travis now features an arm64 build host, so let's check compilation
>> there, too.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there are some quirks:
>> - block/ssh.c does not compile properly in this environment, so we have
>>    to use --disable-libssh until that problem is fixed.
>> - test-util-filemonitor fails, so we can not run the unit tests there
>> - The file system size seems to be very limited, so the iotest tests
>>    can't be used and the hd-geo-test fails (thus we can't compile
>>    x86_64-softmmu here and run "check-qtest" afterwards)
>> - Compiling seems to be quite a bit slower than on the x86 builders,
>>    so we better limit the target list to some few architectures.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   .travis.yml | 6 ++++++
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
>> index 0c88e8757b..357ca02890 100644
>> --- a/.travis.yml
>> +++ b/.travis.yml
>> @@ -342,3 +342,9 @@ matrix:
>>           -
>> CONFIG="--target-list=xtensa-softmmu,arm-softmmu,aarch64-softmmu,alpha-softmmu"
>>
>>           - TEST_CMD="make -j3 check-tcg V=1"
>>           - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
>> +
>> +    # Non-x86 builds:
>> +    - env:
>> +        - CONFIG="--disable-libssh
>> --target-list=aarch64-softmmu,ppc64-softmmu,s390x-softmmu,x86_64-linux-user"
>>
> 
> Is aarch64 on aarch64 interesting?
> 
> Do you know if we can use KVM there?

I don't think that KVM is usable there, but at least this should give us
some compile coverage for target/arm/kvm.c which we don't get otherwise.

 Thomas