Re: [RFC PATCH 07/11] tests/avocado: Add ppc boot tests for non-free AIX images

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 10/10/23 14:43, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > An AIX image can be provided by setting AIX_IMAGE environment
> > variable when running avocado.
> >
> > It's questionable whether we should carry these in upstream QEMU.
> > It's convenient to see how to run these things, but simple enough
> > to maintain in out of tree branch. I just wanted to see opinions
> > about it.
> Yeah there is no point adding a test no one else can run. We already
> have tests that utilise dead URLs that can only run if you happen to
> have the image in the avocado cache which should arguably be removed.
This isn't quite the same problem. This test image can possibly be
shared among developers within the IBM realm.

> > ---
> >   tests/avocado/ppc_aix.py | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)
> >   create mode 100644 tests/avocado/ppc_aix.py