Re: Listing the tools required for Xen development/testing on x86 and Arm by the community

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 09:48:48AM +0100, Ayan Kumar Halder wrote:
> Hi Xen developers,
> 
> We are trying to better document xen project development processes and
> related tools. At present, we are targeting **x86 and Arm** only.
> 
> These tools range from bug/change request tracking means, compilers, infra,
> editors, code-review tools, etc which is connected in some way to the Xen
> development and is being currently used by xen-devel community.
> 
> I appreciate if you can let me know anything I missed or mistaken and the
> version currently being used (for some of the tools).
> 
> 
> 1. Code management portal - xenbits (https://xenbits.xenproject.org), gitlab
> (https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen)
> 
> 2. Project description - wiki.xenproject.org
> 
> 3. Project management - gitlab
> 
> 4. Code review - text based email clients (mutt, thunderbird), git-email, b4
> 
> 5. Text Editors such as vim, emacs
> 
> 6. Code review history - xen-devel mail archives
> 
> 7. Code revision management - git
> 
> 8. Xen coding language - C89, C99, Kconfig
> 
> 9. Testing tools for Arm64 in gitlab CI
> 
> compiler - gcc-9.3.0 (Alpine 3.12)) (most commonly used version)
> 
> binutils - GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.38.9
> 
> emulator/hw - qemu-system-aarch64-6.0.0, qemuarm64 6.2.0 (From yocto, poky
> disto - 4.0.5), zcu102 (**need the uboot, TF-A versions **)
> 
> dom0/domU kernel - kernel-5.19.0
> 
> rootfs - alpine-3.12-arm64-rootfs
> 
> firmware - U-Boot 2022.10
> 
> 10. Testing tools for Arm in gitlab CI
> 
> compiler - arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 11.3.0, arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
> (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0 (most commonly used versions)
> 
> emulator/hw - qemu-system-arm 6.2.0 (From yocto, poky disto - 4.0.5)
> 
> dom0/domU kernel - kernel-5.15.72 (from Yocto), Kernel-5.10.0-22 (from
> Debian)
> 
> rootfs - alpine-minirootfs-3.15.1-armhf.tar.gz
> 
> firmware - U-Boot 2022.10
> 
> 11. Testing tools for x86
> 
> compiler - gcc-9.3.0 (Alpine Linux 9.3.0), gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0,
> clang (from Debian) (most commonly used version)
> 
> binutils - GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40)
> 
> emulator/hardware - Qubes HW (**need details regarding machine, firmware,
> etc**) , qemu 6.2.0 (From yocto, poky distro - 4.0.5)

There are two x86 machines:
1. MSI PRO Z690-A with Intel Core i5-12600K, this one has Dasharo
firmware (coreboot + UEFI)
2. MinisForum UM773 Lite with AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS, this one has stock
UEFI firmware

> dom0/domU kernel - kernel 6.1.19
> 
> rootfs - alpine-3.12-rootfs
> 
> firmware - BIOS Dasharo (coreboot+UEFI) v1.1.1 02/22/2023 , EFI v2.70 by EDK
> II , SMBIOS 3.3.0 , SeaBIOS (version rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a0-Xen), GRUB
> 2.06~rc1
> 
> 12. Debugger - gdb
> 
> 13. Xen code building infra - make
> 
> 14. Testing OS - CentOS 7, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Arch Linux, Alpine 3.12.12,
> Debian 10 (Buster), Fedora
> 
> ( **I could not get the version info for some of these ^^^**)
> 
> 15. Testing Infra - Gitlab runner, Docker
> 
> 16. Testing tools common to all architectures - All the host OS packages
> 
> dtc, build-essential, zlib1g-dev, libncurses5-dev, libssl-dev, python-dev,
> python3-dev, xorg-dev, uuid-dev, libyajl-dev, libaio-dev, libglib2.0-dev,
> libpixman-1-dev, pkg-config, flex, bison, gettext, acpica-tools, bin86, bcc,
> liblzma-dev, libc6-dev-i386, libnl-3-dev, ocaml-nox, libfindlib-ocaml-dev,
> markdown, transfig, pandoc, checkpolicy, wget, nasm, mkimage, uboot-tools
> 
> 17. Documentation related tools - doxygen, rst.
> 
> 
> Did I miss anything ?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Ayan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab

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