> On Jul 4, 2018, at 11:39 AM, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> On Jul 4, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> writes: >>> >>>> >>>> Anyway, all of this has been broken long enough that it'll need to >>>> wait til next devel cycle before anything further gets done. >>> >>> When it gets done should we add some explicit ppc tests to tests/tcg/ppc >>> like we did with arm64 fcvt or would it be worth spending more time on >>> the general purpose FP test suite Emilio was working on as part of his >>> hard-float series? >> >> My vote goes to adding PowerPC specific tests. I already made some and sent >> them to the list a couple of days ago. A general purpose floating point test >> suite would probably not be able to test things like PowerPC floating point >> flags. >> >> I'm not certain how we would add floating point tests to QEMU. I'm >> guessing it would involve some kind of bootable image file that would >> load and run the tests. Hopefully there is an easier way to implement >> testing. > > You don't need system tests - this is all testable from linux-user. See > tests/tcg/arm/fcvt.c and the .ref files in arm and aarch64 directories. > Assuming the test isn't insane (like test-i386-fprem) we can just add a > reference output recorded on know good hardware.
My hope is to make testing the floating point unit as easy as 'make test' or maybe 'make fp-test'.
