On 5/30/25 07:23, Thomas Huth wrote:
Hi Guenter et al.,
I was trying to create a functional test for the "highbank" and "midway" arm machines of
QEMU, and only succeeded after lots of trial and error to boot something on the "highbank" machine.
Peter mentioned on IRC that he also does not test these machines by default, so we started wondering whether
anybody is still using these machines? If not, we should maybe start the deprecation process for those
instead?
Thomas
I don't try to boot midway anymore. Commit log shows:
midway only works with an antique version of qemu. Stop testing it.
That was back in 2021. The log shows that it needs qemu v3.0.
I only test highbank manually (not in automated tests). I have this in my code:
# highbank boots with updated (local version of) qemu,
# but generates warnings to the console due to ignored SMC calls.
I have not run the manual test for ages, so I have no idea if it still works.
It also looks like I removed the local changes. Those were needed to enable
basic
SMC support for highbank; maybe similar code is now upstream.
Ok for me to remove both. Not worth the trouble.
Guenter
