Re: [Xen-devel] osstest, the params to pass into 'make-flight'

["Hu, Robert" <robert.hu@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Campbell [mailto:Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:49 PM
> To: Hu, Robert
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Wei Liu; Ian Jackson
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] osstest, the params to pass into 'make-flight'
> 
> On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 14:12 +0000, Hu, Robert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just start studying the osstest framework. Besides the following 2 blogs, 
> > are
> there any introducing documents?
> >
> http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/02/02/xen-automatic-test-system-osstest/
> >
> http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/09/30/osstest-standalone-mode-step-by-st
> ep/
> >
> > I begin to read the code, confused at the entrance point of 'make flight', 
> > where
> 4 global variables I believe is important to understand the overall 
> architecture --
> 'branch, xenbranch, blessing, buildflight'. What kind of value I shall passed 
> into
> them?
> > I've read the Readme in the code, but didn't find information to answer 
> > myself.
> 
> There is a helper program now, see "standalone". It has a doc comment
> near the top.
> 
> README probably needs an update to reflect the availability of this
> helper.
> 
By browsing the code, I guess:
"branch" refers to the test target branch against the xenbranch; e.g. 
linux-stable, qemu, etc.
"xenbranch" refers to the xen branch of Xen repo on the controller. 
And "blessing", what's this param mean and used for?
"buildfilght" ? what is it used for?

> Ian.

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