Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: arm64: Add support for Renesas RCar Gen3 H3 Salvator-X platform

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On 7 Jul 2016, at 14:14, Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/07/16 13:43, Lars Kurth wrote:
>> 
>>> On 7 Jul 2016, at 12:28, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Also CC Lars.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 12:12:52PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>>>> (CC Wei for the release part)
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Dirk,
>>>> 
>>>> On 04/07/16 07:51, Dirk Behme wrote:
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for adding support of a new board in Xen.
>>>> 
>>>> During the last hackathon, we discussed about improving pre-release testing
>>>> on ARM hardware [1] and helping users to boot Xen on supported board.
>>>> 
>>>> This patch is the first board officially supported since then, so I would
>>>> like to start applying what was discussed (I will put on a wiki page 
>>>> later).
>>>> Below the list of things that I would like to see when a new board is 
>>>> added:
>>>> 
>>>>   - Create a wiki page to explain the requirements to boot Xen on the board
>>>> (e.g new firmware if not supported out of box, linux version,...);
>>>>   - Add a link to the new page in [2];
>>>>   - Add the contact details in [3] of someone who would could test
>>>> pre-release and help out users to boot Xen on the board.
>>>> 
>>>> I do not expect the latter point to be time consuming. It is basically
>>>> checking if Xen boots before each release and possibly update the
>>>> requirements of the board. For the part helping users, it will mostly be
>>>> question related to booting Xen on the hardware. Others may not be able to
>>>> answer because they do not have the board on their desk.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> FWIW having some wiki pages, and most importantly contact details, would
>>> be a good starting point.
>> 
>> I did actually create these pages during the Hackathon and sent it out to 
>> the list, but they were not populated by anyone. See
>> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test
>> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test/Results
>> 
>>> Can we also have a section in MAINTAINERS for different boards (or a
>>> dedicated file?) so that we can easily gather all contact and send
>>> emails in a batch when the release is near?
>> 
>> I am not in principle against this, but a concrete proposal would need to be 
>> made. In fact that may be better than using the wiki (given the lack of 
>> traction around it)
> 
> I think a file in the repository would be more formal than a wiki page.
> 
> However, the MAINTAINERS file may not be the right place because some board 
> will not have any specific code/file in Xen (e.g the RCAR-3 only add 
> earlyprintk). But we would still want to keep track of them for testing 
> purpose and advertising the board supported.
> 
> I was thinking to add a file board under docs/misc/arm/boards.txt with the 
> list of board and a contact associated I would add some words about the 
> "responsibility" of the contact such as:
>   - Testing
>   - Answering questions related to the board
> 
> I would also keep the wiki page [1] (+ a link in the file) to log the testing 
> result per release.
> 
> Finally, we may want to track whether the board is "supported", "obsolete", 
> "untested"...
> 
> I will try to write a concrete proposal.

Sounds sensible. Please CC me. You may also want to CC Andy Cooper as he has 
been doing something similar for some features
Lars


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