Re: Mips-arc tests ever work?

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello!

On 12/5/20 1:33 PM, Glenn Washburn wrote:
> I'm looking into getting grub qemu testing working for the "mis-arc"
> target. Is anyone running these tests successfully?

I'm running manual tests for all architectures before each release.

> In grub-shell that target passed the -M indy arguments to qemu.
> qemu-system-mips64 is saying that that is an invalid machine type.
> The available machine types are magnum, malta, mips, mipssim, none,
> and pica61. The indy machine type appears to not be available since
> at least qemu 2.5, perhaps it was dropped some time ago?

I could not find any reference to "indy" in the qemu git log. Are you
sure it was ever officially supported? I assume the tests here were
run on real hardware.

> According to wikipedia the SGI Indy originally used R4k processors.
> So would machine type mips be the one to use since its description
> says "mips r4k platform"?

No, that was a different, generic machine type, see [1].

> But then why wouldn't it already use that machine type like the
> target "mips-qemu_mips"?

It's possible the author of this change assumed that qemu supports
the indy target which apparently it does not.

> So can anyone familiar with this tell me an appropriate machine type of
> the above listed to use instead of indy?  Perhaps Vladimir who
> committed that code can chime in?

Adrian

> [1] 
> https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=f169413c27130ac9ebf96a1212100bba92f348ba

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