On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 09:14:21AM -0800, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:
> On 10/29/2026 9:05 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 29/10/2026 17.38, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> On Thu, 29 Oct 2026 at 16:13, Alex Bennée <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The full quanta_gsj test would have caught the regression caused by
> >>> the WFxT implementation and isn't that slow (<60s) it needs to be
> >>> gated.
> >>>
> >>> Suggested-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <[email protected]>
> >>> ---
> > ...
> >> The other argument against using quanta-gsj as our test here
> >> is that as discussed as part of a recent docs update:
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20260627063208.33642-1-
> >> [email protected]/
> >> it's no longer supported by OpenBMC.
> >>
> >> I didn't get any response from the Nuvoton maintainers in
> >> that thread, but I kind of favour deprecating the machine
> >> type in QEMU.
> > If nobody seems to care anymore, please go ahead and mark it as
> > deprecated! We can still revert it in case someone speaks up later
> > during the deprecation period.
> > 
> >  Thomas
> > 
> > 
> 
> For what it's worth, I also noticed that this test tends to timeout
> randomly, even when running tests with -j1. So we might observe this in
> our CI also, by enabling it by default.

If it is unreliable then it should be tagged with skipFlakyTest,
and a gitlab issue filed with an example failure trace.

If no one steps up to fix the flaky test in a reasonable time
then it should later be deleted, as flaky tests should not be
allowed to linger for years.

With regards,
Daniel
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