Re: [PATCH 02/25] qemucapabilitiesdata: Document faked caps dumps
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
+Fake test data dumps for certain architectures
+==============================================
+
+For some architectures it was impossible or impractical to fetch real capability
+dumps. To ensure coverate of certain cases the dumps were collected from
+corresponding binaries running on a different architecture.
+
+The following files are fake:
+
+ - ``caps_7.2.0_ppc``
+ Captured on x86_64 host running fedora.
This list is guaranteed to go stale over time, and it's already
missing some entries right now (caps_5.1.0_sparc, caps_*_riscv64).
I would use more generic, future-proof language instead: something
along the lines of
Capabilities dumps for the following architectures are usually
produced on real hardware:
- x86_64
- aarch64
- ppc64
- s390x
In most other cases, x86_64 will be used as the host architecture.
If there's a simple way to check whether a specific capability dump
has been produced on real hardware (presence of KVM support?) that
could be mentioned here as well for completeness' sake.
--
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization