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Re: Listing the tools required for Xen development/testing on x86 and Arm by the community
- To: Ayan Kumar Halder <ayankuma@xxxxxxx>
- From: Christopher Clark <christopher.w.clark@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 02:34:22 -0700
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- Delivery-date: Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:34:45 +0000
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Hi Xen developers,
We are trying to better document xen project development processes and
related tools. At present, we are targeting **x86 and Arm** only.
These tools range from bug/change request tracking means, compilers,
infra, editors, code-review tools, etc which is connected in some way to
the Xen development and is being currently used by xen-devel community.
I appreciate if you can let me know anything I missed or mistaken and
the version currently being used (for some of the tools).
The Xen git tree contains a README file with some of the information that you are looking for. This link is to that file for the 4.17 release:
The README specifies specific minimum compiler versions for that Xen release.
1. Code management portal - xenbits (https://xenbits.xenproject.org),
gitlab (https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen)
2. Project description - wiki.xenproject.org
3. Project management - gitlab
4. Code review - text based email clients (mutt, thunderbird), git-email, b4
5. Text Editors such as vim, emacs
6. Code review history - xen-devel mail archives
7. Code revision management - git
8. Xen coding language - C89, C99, Kconfig
The Xen community also has tools written in Python, OCaml, Go, and Rust.
9. Testing tools for Arm64 in gitlab CI
compiler - gcc-9.3.0 (Alpine 3.12)) (most commonly used version)
binutils - GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.38.9
emulator/hw - qemu-system-aarch64-6.0.0, qemuarm64 6.2.0 (From yocto,
poky disto - 4.0.5), zcu102 (**need the uboot, TF-A versions **)
dom0/domU kernel - kernel-5.19.0
rootfs - alpine-3.12-arm64-rootfs
firmware - U-Boot 2022.10
10. Testing tools for Arm in gitlab CI
compiler - arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 11.3.0,
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0 (most commonly used
versions)
emulator/hw - qemu-system-arm 6.2.0 (From yocto, poky disto - 4.0.5)
dom0/domU kernel - kernel-5.15.72 (from Yocto), Kernel-5.10.0-22 (from
Debian)
rootfs - alpine-minirootfs-3.15.1-armhf.tar.gz
firmware - U-Boot 2022.10
11. Testing tools for x86
compiler - gcc-9.3.0 (Alpine Linux 9.3.0), gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14)
12.2.0, clang (from Debian) (most commonly used version)
binutils - GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40)
emulator/hardware - Qubes HW (**need details regarding machine,
firmware, etc**) , qemu 6.2.0 (From yocto, poky distro - 4.0.5)
dom0/domU kernel - kernel 6.1.19
rootfs - alpine-3.12-rootfs
firmware - BIOS Dasharo (coreboot+UEFI) v1.1.1 02/22/2023 , EFI v2.70 by
EDK II , SMBIOS 3.3.0 , SeaBIOS (version rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a0-Xen),
GRUB 2.06~rc1
12. Debugger - gdb
There is a tools/debugger directory in the Xen git tree that contains: gdbsx, a gdb server for Xen, and kdd, a tool for debugging Xen with the windows kernel debugger.
13. Xen code building infra - make
14. Testing OS - CentOS 7, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Arch Linux, Alpine 3.12.12,
Debian 10 (Buster), Fedora
( **I could not get the version info for some of these ^^^**)
Yocto and OpenEmbedded releases contain support for building Xen guest OS images suitable for testing.
Devuan, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
15. Testing Infra - Gitlab runner, Docker
16. Testing tools common to all architectures - All the host OS packages
dtc, build-essential, zlib1g-dev, libncurses5-dev, libssl-dev,
python-dev, python3-dev, xorg-dev, uuid-dev, libyajl-dev, libaio-dev,
libglib2.0-dev, libpixman-1-dev, pkg-config, flex, bison, gettext,
acpica-tools, bin86, bcc, liblzma-dev, libc6-dev-i386, libnl-3-dev,
ocaml-nox, libfindlib-ocaml-dev, markdown, transfig, pandoc,
checkpolicy, wget, nasm, mkimage, uboot-tools
17. Documentation related tools - doxygen, rst.
Possibly: Sphinx
Did I miss anything ?
I think you have a good start!
best, Christopher
Kind regards,
Ayan
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