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[PULL,4/7] docs/devel: expand on use of containers to build tests

Message ID 20210224114926.6303-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org
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Commit 663a041e1dff50eaa66c8d2b01ade1ac8cd65619
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Alex Bennée Feb. 24, 2021, 11:49 a.m. UTC
Expand on the usage of containers for building tests and why we have
some that are not used to build QEMU itself.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210222101455.12640-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

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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 meaning:
 
 - disabled: Tests in this group are disabled and ignored by check.
 
-.. _docker-ref:
+.. _container-ref:
 
-Docker based tests
-==================
+Container based tests
+=====================
 
 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.
 
-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.
 
 Running subset of tests
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