Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

[Rich Persaud <persaur@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 14, 2018, at 18:46, Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rich,
> 
>> On 08/14/2018 11:42 PM, Rich Persaud wrote:
>>> On Aug 13, 2018, at 10:57, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Both our arm64 boxes are out of commission and repairing them is
>>> taking too long.
>> Apologies if this is already documented elsewhere - does OSStest use Qemu 
>> for arm64 testing?
> 
> Osstest does not use QEMU for testing, but I think it would be too slow to 
> have result in timely manner and use x86 resource as well.

To avoid having zero test coverage for one target architecture, it may be 
acceptable to temporarily reduce test capacity for other target architectures.  
QEMU has the advantage of being faster to "rack" a test architecture for 
temporary use.

Rich
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