On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:34:41PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 17 October 2018 at 00:22, Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> wrote: > > The host arch name is not always the target arch name, so it's > > necessary to have a mapping. > > > > The configure scripts contains what is the authoritative and failproof > > mapping, but, reusing it is not straightforward, so it's replicated in > > the acceptance tests supporting code. > > So, why does the test code need to care? It's not clear > from the patch... My expectation would be that you'd > just test all the testable target architectures, > regardless of what the host architecture is.
I tend to agree. Maybe the right solution is to get rid of the os.uname(). I think the default should be testing all QEMU binaries that were built, and the host architecture shouldn't matter. That said, I think the dictionary is a nice temporary workaround until we fix that. -- Eduardo
