Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: arm64: Add support for Renesas RCar Gen3 H3 Salvator-X platform

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Also CC Lars.

On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 12:12:52PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> (CC Wei for the release part)
> 
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> On 04/07/16 07:51, Dirk Behme wrote:
> >Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thank you for adding support of a new board in Xen.
> 
> During the last hackathon, we discussed about improving pre-release testing
> on ARM hardware [1] and helping users to boot Xen on supported board.
> 
> This patch is the first board officially supported since then, so I would
> like to start applying what was discussed (I will put on a wiki page later).
> Below the list of things that I would like to see when a new board is added:
> 
>    - Create a wiki page to explain the requirements to boot Xen on the board
> (e.g new firmware if not supported out of box, linux version,...);
>    - Add a link to the new page in [2];
>    - Add the contact details in [3] of someone who would could test
> pre-release and help out users to boot Xen on the board.
> 
> I do not expect the latter point to be time consuming. It is basically
> checking if Xen boots before each release and possibly update the
> requirements of the board. For the part helping users, it will mostly be
> question related to booting Xen on the hardware. Others may not be able to
> answer because they do not have the board on their desk.
> 
 
FWIW having some wiki pages, and most importantly contact details, would
be a good starting point.

Can we also have a section in MAINTAINERS for different boards (or a
dedicated file?) so that we can easily gather all contact and send
emails in a batch when the release is near?

Wei.

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