Re: [PATCH 5/5] travis.yml: Compile on arm64, too

[Alex Bennée]

Thomas Huth <address@hidden> writes:

> On 09/10/2019 21.06, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 10/9/19 7:07 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> Travis now features an arm64 build host, so let's check compilation
>>> there, too.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, there are some quirks:
>>> - block/ssh.c does not compile properly in this environment, so we have
>>>    to use --disable-libssh until that problem is fixed.
>>> - test-util-filemonitor fails, so we can not run the unit tests there
>>> - The file system size seems to be very limited, so the iotest tests
>>>    can't be used and the hd-geo-test fails (thus we can't compile
>>>    x86_64-softmmu here and run "check-qtest" afterwards)
>>> - Compiling seems to be quite a bit slower than on the x86 builders,
>>>    so we better limit the target list to some few architectures.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>   .travis.yml | 6 ++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
>>> index 0c88e8757b..357ca02890 100644
>>> --- a/.travis.yml
>>> +++ b/.travis.yml
>>> @@ -342,3 +342,9 @@ matrix:
>>>           -
>>> CONFIG="--target-list=xtensa-softmmu,arm-softmmu,aarch64-softmmu,alpha-softmmu"
>>>
>>>           - TEST_CMD="make -j3 check-tcg V=1"
>>>           - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
>>> +
>>> +    # Non-x86 builds:
>>> +    - env:
>>> +        - CONFIG="--disable-libssh
>>> --target-list=aarch64-softmmu,ppc64-softmmu,s390x-softmmu,x86_64-linux-user"
>>>
>>
>> Is aarch64 on aarch64 interesting?
>>
>> Do you know if we can use KVM there?
>
> I don't think that KVM is usable there, but at least this should give us
> some compile coverage for target/arm/kvm.c which we don't get
> otherwise.

We get compile coverage for !x86 kvm from the cross compilers on
shippable. I'm more interested in running tests on !x86.

>
>  Thomas


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Alex Bennée