Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH] README.hardware-acquisition

[George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>]

[CC'ing Stefano and Julien]
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 5:49 PM George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 4:14 PM Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > +   + Baremetal boot from Debian stable or stable-backports:
> > +
> > +     A suitable Linux kernel binary which can boot baremetal on the
> > +     proposed hardware must be available from Debian (at least
> > +     `stable', or, if that is not possible `stable-backports').  It is
> > +     not OK to require a patched version of Linux, or a version of
> > +     Linux built from a particular git branch, or some such.  If the
> > +     required kernel is not available in Debian, the vendor should
> > +     first work with the Debian project to ensure and validate that
> > +     the Debian stable-backports kernel binaries boot on the proposed
> > +     hardware.
>
> So it sounds like (from the rest of this discussion) the real
> requirement is "osstest must be able to install a system such that it
> can build the target versions of Linux and Xen".  At the moment, that
> means that the proposed hardware must be supported by debian +
> stable-backports.  Osstest does not have functionality to build custom
> versions of Linux for build boxes, nor does it have support for Yocto.
>
> Would it make sense to reword it this way:
>
> ---
> + Baremetal boot from Debian stable or stable-backports:
>
> In order to avoid cross-compilation, Osstest must be able to install a
> bare-metal system on the host itself in order to build Linux and Xen
> test binaries for that host. At the moment osstest uses Debian for
> this, and there is no facility in osstest for building custom kernels
> for this purpose.  As such, a suitable Linux kernel binary which can
> boot baremetal on the proposed hardware must be available from Debian
> (at least `stable', or, if that is not possible, `stable-backports').
> Osstest cannot install using a patched version of Linux, or one built
> from a particular git branch, or some such.  If the required kernel is
> not available in Debian, the vendor should ideally work with the
> Debian project to ensure and validate that Debian stable-backports
> kernel binaries boot on the proposed hardware.  Alternately, the
> vendor can work with the community to implement the necessary
> functionality within osstest to enable it to build custom kernels for
> build installs, or use alternate distributions which have better
> baremetal support for the hardware.
> ---
>
>  -George

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