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

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

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?
Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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