RE: [PATCH 0/2] osstest: update FreeBSD guest tests

[Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 03 June 2020 10:51
> To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] osstest: update FreeBSD guest tests
> 
> Roger Pau Monne writes ("[PATCH 0/2] osstest: update FreeBSD guest tests"):
> > The following series adds FreeBSD 11 and 12 guests tests to osstest.
> > ATM this is only tested on amd64, since the i386 versions had a bug.
> >
> > The result can be seen at:
> >
> > http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest/logs/150428/
> 
> Thanks, Roger.
> 
> I think that for this change I ought to get an ack from Paul as the
> RM.
> 
> Paul: how do you want to handle osstest changes during the freeze ?  I
> already pushed on Monday - without asking you - a series to fix a
> problem with bisection which was stopping osstest from bisecting the
> libvirt failure in the smoke tests.  Please let me know if you think I
> should have checked with you.
> 

I'm no expert in osstest so I need to trust your judgement as to whether a 
patch is needed for 4.14 testing. That fix was clearly
necessary to help diagnose the libvirt issue so I don't think you need check 
with me for such things.

> I think we should take this change from Roger.  Right now we are still
> waiting for even the smoke tests from staging to pass.  I don't
> think this would interfere with that nor will it get in the way of the
> osstest buster upgrade.

We should certainly try to limit changes to only those where really are 
beneficial for 4.14 at this stage, but it looks like this
series is adding more relevant testing (i.e. on newer OS) so I think it 
qualifies.

  Paul

> 
> Thanks,
> Ian.