On Wed, 26 May 2021, Paul Gofman wrote:
On 5/26/21 15:17, Francois Gouget wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2021, Paul Gofman wrote:
FWIW the tests succeed on real hardware for me (64 bit, xstate supported) on Win7 and Win10 (latest; the broken case is not hit). I suspect the fall into broken case has something to do with VM specifics,
Not so for Windows 10 since it falls into the broken case on cw-rx460 (Windows 10 1507) which is not a VM (i7-2600K + AMD RX460 graphics card):
So if it is different for different real hw Win10 machines, but the reason is not known, can't that result just stay broken
It seems wrong to me to claim a Windows behavior is broken if: 1. It is the behavior of all recent Windows versions. 2. We have no idea why some machines behave differently. 3. We have no idea how many machines exhibit the 'broken' behavior. (If 90% of the Windows machines 'in the wild' exhibit the broken behavior then this is the behavior that will be expected)
Options: 1. Drop the test If we don't know of Windows applications that depend on this aspect and don't expect them to, then maybe the test is not needed. 2. Investigate more to actually understand what is going on. Then we can decide what to do. 3. Leave it as is The broken is not causing failures so it's ok. Change the comment to a FIXME explaining we don't know what's going on. That also means we don't know how to implement this in Wine.
(whatever the reason for that is, would it be 1507 version, CPU model or some setup quirk)?
I am not going to test all the Windows versions on cw-gtx560 and cw-rx460 because each time it requires manually reimaging the partition, manually stopping WineTest before it starts, manually transferring the test executable and manually running it.
But it's not just Windows 10 1507, the test fails in the same way on:
cw-gtx560 Win10 1909 i7-2600K broken (success) cw-rx460 Win10 2009 i7-2600K broken (success)
That's consistent with the VMs behavior so there is no reason to expect other Windows versions would behave differently.
I have all the default system with all the updates auto installed here, so unlikely something in my setup makes it work in an unusual way.
I can say the same for cw-rx460 and cw-gtx560: there may be some setting that makes a difference but at least they are all tracked on the page below so there's not a lot.
https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_TestBot_VMs#Windows_configuration