Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.9 0/4] Makefiles: Provide way to ship livepatch tests

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 07/06/17 16:31, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 03:51:28PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I am trying to get the livepatches tested in osstest.  As discussed, I
> > would like the xen.git Makefiles to be able to ship the livepatch test
> > files, so that osstest does not need to have too much special
> > knowledge of the xen.git build system.
> >
> > There are three preliminary patches which tidy up the xen/test
> > Makefiles etc. a bit, and a final patch which provides the top-level
> > targets.  These targets are not invoked by default.
> >
> > I have tested these with a private osstest branch; I got a pass with
> > an amd64 toolstack.  I'm still getting my osstest branch to DTRT with
> > a 32-bit toolstack but 64-bit hypervisor, and the osstest patch series
> > needs some work.  But given that I have had one pass, and verified
> > that things work with a 32-bit x86 build, I think the xen.git changes
> > can go in now.
> >
> > I would ideally like this in 4.9 because I would like to establish the
> > interface; also eventually I expect we will want to backport these
> > Makefile changes to 4.8 so that we can test the 4.8 livepatching too.
> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> +1 for this to go into 4.9 and be backported to 4.8.
Release-acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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