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

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On 7 Jul 2016, at 12:28, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I did actually create these pages during the Hackathon and sent it out to the 
list, but they were not populated by anyone. See
http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test
http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test/Results

> 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?

I am not in principle against this, but a concrete proposal would need to be 
made. In fact that may be better than using the wiki (given the lack of 
traction around it)

Lars 


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