Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 01/14] ts-xen-build: always compile in FEP support

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 12:53:33PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 04/08/16 12:46, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Wei Liu writes ("[OSSTEST PATCH RFC 01/14] ts-xen-build: always compile in 
> > FEP support"):
> >> By default FEP depends on debug flag. When we are near release the debug
> >> flag will be turned off. In order to test a release build, we explicitly
> >> enable FEP in build configuration.
> >>
> >> Since we target Xen versions that already have Kconfig support, only a
> >> Kconfig option is created for now.
> > What do you mean by "we target" ?  osstest needs to support all
> > versions of Xen which are still in security support, which goes back
> > to 4.4 right now.
> 
> Xen 4.8 will have CONFIG_HVM_FEP available, and the hvm_fep command line
> option is available irrespective of whether it is a debug build of the
> hypervisor.
> 
> Xen 4.5-4.7 have hvm_fep available on the command line, strictly for
> debug builds of Xen only.
> 
> Older versions have no FEP support at all.
> 
> 
> XTF tests which require FEP to function will probe and SKIP if support
> is not available.  This does mean that some tests can only sensibly work
> against newer hypervisors.
> 

In that case I think I would just abolish the fep test? Currently if
hypervisor doesn't support fep, the whole job is aborted.


> ~Andrew

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