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Signed-off-by: Alex Benn=C3=A9e Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth Cc: Thomas Huth Message-Id: <20210222101455.12640-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org> diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst index 00ce16de48..488d4e3537 100644 --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst @@ -272,10 +272,10 @@ Note that the following group names have a special me= aning: =20 - disabled: Tests in this group are disabled and ignored by check. =20 -.. _docker-ref: +.. _container-ref: =20 -Docker based tests -=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D +Container based tests +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 Introduction ------------ @@ -1001,10 +1001,17 @@ for the architecture in question, for example:: There is also a ``--cross-cc-flags-ARCH`` flag in case additional compiler flags are needed to build for a given target. =20 -If you have the ability to run containers as the user you can also -take advantage of the build systems "Docker" support. It will then use -containers to build any test case for an enabled guest where there is -no system compiler available. See :ref:`docker-ref` for details. +If you have the ability to run containers as the user the build system +will automatically use them where no system compiler is available. For +architectures where we also support building QEMU we will generally +use the same container to build tests. However there are a number of +additional containers defined that have a minimal cross-build +environment that is only suitable for building test cases. Sometimes +we may use a bleeding edge distribution for compiler features needed +for test cases that aren't yet in the LTS distros we support for QEMU +itself. + +See :ref:`container-ref` for more details. =20 Running subset of tests ----------------------- --=20 2.20.1