Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] tests/acceptance: Handle ppc64le host arch correctly

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 6/13/19 8:07 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> ppc64 and ppc64le are different archs from the host kernel point of view
> and are advertised as such in uname.  But these cover the same set of CPUs,
> just in different endianness modes.  qemu-system-ppc64 handles both modes,
> so make sure we select the correct binary when running on ppc64le host
> architecture.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> ---
>  tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py 
> b/tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py
> index 2b236a1cf0..0ba9c536f4 100644
> --- a/tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py
> +++ b/tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py
> @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ def pick_default_qemu_bin(arch=None):
>      """
>      if arch is None:
>          arch = os.uname()[4]
> +        if arch == 'ppc64le':
> +            arch = 'ppc64'

I prefer the generic patch from Cleber:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-10/msg03418.html
(I guess remember another version with a json file)

>      qemu_bin_relative_path = os.path.join("%s-softmmu" % arch,
>                                            "qemu-system-%s" % arch)
>      if is_readable_executable_file(qemu_bin_relative_path):
>