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. -- Alex Bennée
