Hi

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 05:33:08PM +0400, [email protected]
> wrote:
> > From: Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]>
> >
> > We are updating debian which dropped support for it:
> >
> https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html#mips-architectures-removed
>
> If Debian 13 has dropped it, why aren't we just keeping the mips
> dockerfiles on 12 ?
>
> The debian-legacy-test-cross a manually written dockerfile that
> has almost none of our deps installed, and is still on 11 which
> is outside our support matrix now. So I don't think we should
> be expanding use of debian-legacy-test-cross, ideally it would
> be removed entirely.
>
>
debian-legacy-test-cross is for tests/tcg. Debian 11 supports more
architecture than 12 or 13..


> > diff --git a/tests/lcitool/libvirt-ci b/tests/lcitool/libvirt-ci
> > index 7a92fe388f..9da20ff7c3 160000
> > --- a/tests/lcitool/libvirt-ci
> > +++ b/tests/lcitool/libvirt-ci
> > @@ -1 +1 @@
> > -Subproject commit 7a92fe388f55d1bbc33e639e3484533f88c542ec
> > +Subproject commit 9da20ff7c3bc9067804a7561c2ff87583b434853
>
> This shouldn't be here.
>
>
right


> > diff --git a/tests/lcitool/refresh b/tests/lcitool/refresh
> > index 6f98a91277..917ff4abfb 100755
> > --- a/tests/lcitool/refresh
> > +++ b/tests/lcitool/refresh
> > @@ -215,16 +215,6 @@ try:
> >                                              "x86_64-linux-user,"
> >
> "i386-softmmu,i386-linux-user"))
> >
> > -    generate_dockerfile("debian-mips64el-cross", "debian-12",
> > -                        cross="mips64el",
> > -                        trailer=cross_build("mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-",
> > -
> "mips64el-softmmu,mips64el-linux-user"))
> > -
> > -    generate_dockerfile("debian-mipsel-cross", "debian-12",
> > -                        cross="mipsel",
> > -                        trailer=cross_build("mipsel-linux-gnu-",
> > -
> "mipsel-softmmu,mipsel-linux-user"))
> > -
>
> I'm not seeing the need to remove these, when they could just
> stay on -12, when the next commit updates the other arches
> to -13.
>

Indeed.. it depends how much we want to keep covering. We already don't
cover all qemu cross compilations. The question is do we want to keep
cross-compiling for soon unsupported arches?

@Bennée, Alex <[email protected]> might know, thanks

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