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

[Rich Persaud <persaur@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 15, 2018, at 05:29, Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On 08/15/2018 12:25 AM, Rich Persaud wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Well, arm64 test coverage was already reduced because we had only 2 platforms 
> ready for testing. I can hardly imagine how this code be reduced more for 
> fitting QEMU. Beware that we compile natively in Osstest so this will take an 
> awful lot of time here.
> 
> However, the main problem here is not the lack of platform but the lack of 
> time for OSSTest team (mostly Ian and Wei) to investigate and bring-up new 
> platforms. Maybe you can help finding contributors to help on Arm64?

This may happen via testing of the OpenEmbedded meta-virtualization layer 
support for Xen, where OE enables cross-compilation.

Rich
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