Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.10] boot-serial-test: prefer tcg accelerator

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 August 2017 at 09:49, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 22/08/2017 10:47, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 22 August 2017 at 02:09, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:18:07PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>> On 16 August 2017 at 11:51, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> On 16/08/2017 10:26, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>>>>>> Prefer to use the tcg accelarator if it is available: This is our only
>>>>>> real smoke test for tcg, and fast enough to use it for that.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure this is required for 2.10.  Yes, it means the coverage from
>>>>> "make check" is worse, but that's it.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I'd put it under "if we need to roll an rc4 anyway for
>>>> some more significant bug we might as well put this in too,
>>>> but it doesn't merit cutting rc4 by itself."
>>>
>>> It does entirely break "make check" on a ppc host.  And that in turn
>>> has held up my testing cycle for a couple of ppc regressions from 2.9
>>> that I was hoping to squeeze in.  Does that change your calculations?
>>
>> I have a PPC64 box in my standard set of build tests, and it
>> runs 'make check' without problems...
>
> You need to use KVM HV to have the problem, not KVM PR.
> Is that the case?

I don't have access to KVM at all on that box, so it will be
using TCG only.

thanks
-- PMM