severity 1103553 wishlist
tags 1103553 upstream

On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> El 19/4/25 a las 20:32, Roman Lebedev escribió:
> >> The cpuinfo is attached.
> > Right, so that CPU does claim to have AMX support.
> > But is AMX supported in such a virtualized environment?
> > https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Tiber-Developer-Cloud/Can-t-run-AMX-Instructions-on-Intel-Xeon-4th-Gen-Scalable/m-p/1532428
> > suggests not. Could you please file an issue with AWS?
> > I really feel like the issue is on their end...
>
> Maybe it is, but it is not easy for me to file an issue with them,
> because I'm just using an account for which I have limited permissions
> without being the customer myself.
>
> Given that it's a single test the one that fails, I was thinking about
> disabling it with a changelog entry like this:
>
> "Temporarily disable test foo, since it does not seem to work in
> some hardware configurations."
This feels like disabling tests because they happen to fail because of bad ram.
Because that is exactly what is going on - the system is knowingly
lying about the CPU features it provides.

> Would you accept such a patch?
I am not enthusiastic about breaking the package's test suite any further.

> (I honestly think it would be a lot better than nothing).
>
> Thanks.

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