[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] fate.sh: Allow overriding what targets to make for running the tests

[Martin Storsjö]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Martin Storsjö wrote:

> Anyway, the concrete case I'm considering, is that we've got AArch64 code 
> merged, that uses the I8MM extensions. We don't have any FATE configuration 
> that continuously test that. Whenever there are patches, I do spin up a cloud 
> instance that supports this extension and test the patches there, but 
> inbetween that we're pretty much blind.
>
> While checkasm's coverage isn't fantastic, for this particular case I'm not 
> merging any AArch64 code for new extensions unless that code is covered by 
> checkasm.
>
> The other AArch64 feature that we do have code for, which also is untested, 
> is the assembly support for branch protection and pointer authentication. 
> Also this is testable pretty easily with QEMU. It's of course more 
> interesting to run the full fate suite, but if we're not looking for bugs in 
> the compiler but only for bugs in our assembly, then checkasm should cover 
> most of it.

So if you don't mind, I'd like to go ahead and push this, and set up those 
instances so that we do get some continuous testing of the corners of our 
aarch64 assembly that we otherwise only test occasionally.

// Martin