Re: [PATCH 2/9] tests/cpu-policy: Confirm that CPUID serialisation is sorted

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 15.06.2020 18:12, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 15/06/2020 16:34, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [PATCH 2/9] tests/cpu-policy: Confirm that CPUID 
>> serialisation is sorted"):
>>> Nothing runs it by default, but it is part of my prepush testing for
>>> anything in the relevant area.
>>>
>>> We should do something better, but its not totally trivial.  The x86
>>> emulator test for example needs a fairly bleeding edge version of
>>> binutils, given that we routinely add support for bleeding edge
>>> instruction groups.
>> Hmmm.  Is it likely that installing the version from Debian testing
>> (say) would work ?  Or do we want to build it from source ?  These are
>> all possibilities.
> 
> Pulling from Sid may work, if they're fairly prompt to update to new
> binutils releases.  (They're certainly up to date ATM)
> 
> Jan: are we ever in a position where we need something more bleeding
> edge than the latest binutils release?

Gcc needs to be about as recent: Right now the minimum is gcc 8 I
think, and I have a few hacks in place locally to make things
somewhat work back to gcc 5, as on my laptop (and hence when
working from home) I don't have any custom gcc builds.

Jan