Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.0 V3] tests/acpi-test: do not run iasl on big endian machines

[Peter Maydell]

On 23 March 2014 09:52, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hard to predict the future: it's possible that some distros
> will ship partially broken iasl on BE.
> We really need to see a working one to be sure ...

Well at the moment we have a known broken iasl,
and we have a known OK iasl (in the sense that we
know what the correct behaviour is, it should match
what it does on LE hosts). So we can write a test that
distinguishes the two. In the future if somebody fixes
half the bugs for some reason we will then be able
to tighten up the test if we have to.

But I think a test that correctly distinguishes the
two cases we have currently is better than one
which marks them both as "broken".

thanks
-- PMM