Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] qom-test

[Thomas Huth]

On 27.04.2018 18:30, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Thomas Huth <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 27.04.2018 12:20, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 27 April 2018 at 07:06, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
>>>> Shall we change qom-test to also only test with the "none" machine in
>>>> the normal "make check" mode and only do the full test with all machines
>>>> in "make check SPEED=slow" ?
>>>
>>> We definitely want something that tries to instantiate every
>>> machine, because that does catch bugs.
>>
>> Yes, after having a closer look at this one, I also think that we should
>> *not* change it to run with "none" by default only. The 'qom-list'
>> command results in quite a different output depending on which machine
>> you run it on.
> 
> Only running "none" is too naive.

For the targets that have "versioned" machine types, I think we could
skip all the older machine versions, so that we only test with
pc-i440fx-2.12 but not with pc-i440fx-2.11 and older anymore. That would
need some more or less clever algorithm to detect the latest version,
though.

 Thomas