Re: [PATCH v1 4/4] .travis.yml: reduce the load on [ppc64] GCC check-tcg

[Richard Henderson]

On 5/3/20 7:10 PM, David Gibson wrote:
>>>>           - TEST_CMD="make check check-tcg V=1"
>>>> -        - CONFIG="--disable-containers 
>>>> --target-list=${MAIN_SOFTMMU_TARGETS},ppc64le-linux-user"
>>>> +        - CONFIG="--disable-containers 
>>>> --target-list=ppc64-softmmu,ppc64le-linux-user"
>>>
>>> Cc'ing David, since I'm not sure about this one... Maybe split as we
>>> did with other jobs?
...
> Hrm.  I'd prefer not to drop this coverage if we can avoid it.  What
> we're not testing with the proposed patch is TCG generation for a ppc
> host but a non-ppc target.  e.g. if the x86 or ARM target side generates
> some pattern of TCG ops that's very rare for the ppc target, and is
> buggy in the ppc host side.

Are we actually testing those here?  As far as I can see, we're not installing
any cross-compilers here, so we're not building any non-ppc binaries.  Nor are
we running check-acceptance which would download pre-built foreign binaries.


r~