Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] ap-common: Switch to Linux 6.1 by default on x86 + drop dom0 i386

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 11:47:41AM +0000, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> linux-4.19 branch in xenbits is outdated, it haven't been updated and
> tested since 2020 as it has been disabled in osstest. Also, this 4.19
> branch doesn't build on Bookworm.
> 
> So we will start to use a newer version of Linux. We switch to 6.1 for
> the Arm* tests recently, so will use that same version for x86.
> 
> Also, following commit 3a3089c94913 ("mfi-common: Drop Linux dom0 i386
> tests for newer Linux branches"), 32bit dom0 isn't tested on newer
> Linux, so we need to drop all dom0 i386 tests wherever the default
> linux branch is used. That is, this changes in jobs will apply to
> "xen-unstable" branch but also all xen stable branches, seabios, qemu,
> osstest, libvirt, so every branch that aren't "linux-*".
> 
> Here is the list jobs that changes, and whether they are replace, or
> have existing equivalents, on the "xen-unstable" branch. Changes
> compared with:
>     OSSTEST_CONFIG=standalone-config-example nice eatmydata 
> ./standalone-generate-dump-flight-runvars
> 
> Gone, without exiting or new test-amd64-amd64-*:
> - test-amd64-i386-freebsd10-amd64
> - test-amd64-i386-freebsd10-i386

I should have removed those long time ago, as FreeBSD has been EOL for
ages.

> - test-amd64-i386-qemut-rhel6hvm-amd
> - test-amd64-i386-qemut-rhel6hvm-intel
> - test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-amd
> - test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-intel
> 
> Gone, but with exiting test-amd64-amd64-* equivalent:
> - test-amd64-coresched-i386-xl
> - test-amd64-i386-examine
> - test-amd64-i386-examine-bios
> - test-amd64-i386-examine-uefi
> - test-amd64-i386-libvirt
> - test-amd64-i386-libvirt-pair
> - test-amd64-i386-libvirt-qemuu-debianhvm-amd64-xsm
> - test-amd64-i386-libvirt-xsm
> - test-amd64-i386-livepatch
> - test-amd64-i386-migrupgrade
> - test-amd64-i386-pair
> - test-amd64-i386-xl
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-pvshim
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemut-debianhvm-amd64
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemut-debianhvm-i386-xsm
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemut-stubdom-debianhvm-amd64-xsm
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemut-win7-amd64
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemut-ws16-amd64
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemuu-debianhvm-amd64
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemuu-debianhvm-amd64-shadow
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemuu-debianhvm-i386-xsm
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemuu-dmrestrict-amd64-dmrestrict
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemuu-ovmf-amd64
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemuu-win7-amd64
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-qemuu-ws16-amd64
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-shadow
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-simplat-amd64-buster
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-xsm
> 
> Gone, but replaced by a new test-amd64-amd64-*:
> - test-amd64-i386-libvirt-raw
> - test-amd64-i386-xl-vhd
> 
> Some test-amd64-amd64-* are also changed:
> - test-amd64-amd64-libvirt-vhd
> - test-amd64-amd64-qemuu-freebsd11-amd64
> - test-amd64-amd64-qemuu-freebsd12-amd64
> - test-amd64-amd64-xl-qcow2
> + test-amd64-amd64-freebsd11-amd64
> + test-amd64-amd64-freebsd12-amd64
> + test-amd64-amd64-libvirt-qcow2
> + test-amd64-amd64-libvirt-raw
> + test-amd64-amd64-xl-vhd

Is this purely a name change, or there's some kind of functional
change?

I'm mostly worried whether this could lead to regressions getting in
as osstest would detect those jobs as new instead of inheriting from
the previous jobs.  Also the "History for test ..." won't link to jobs
prior to the rename?

I guess I'm confused about what causes the qemuu to be dropped from
the job names above.

Thanks, Roger.