Re: [PATCH] raisin: update defaults according to the current content of Config.mk

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 10:25 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 05/12/2015 10:16 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
> 
> What's the purpose of doing this?  In particular it seems like having to
> manually update the changesets as we go along is going to be a big pain
> in the neck.  There shouldn't be a need to keep raisin.git and xen.git
> in such close synchrony.

The intent is to replace the tracking we currently do in xen.git with
tracking in raisin.git, not to keep the two in sync. It'll have to run
alongside until we actually remove that stuff from xen.git though.

For example, we do not want to just track seabios master, that is a
development version. I (as maintainer) want to track seabios releases
which are tested against Xen, especially for a release.

OVMF and qemu-trad are also similarly managed in Config.mk.

Stefano, I think it would be good to also import the little comment
snippet associated with the manually maintained revisions in Config.mk.

For the other branches Config.mk automatically tracks the outputs of the
various osstest push gates. It looks like raisin's defconfig already
mostly does that.

I think we should consider whether for libvirt raisin should be using
git://xenbits.xen.org/libvirt.git#xen-tested-master by default.

We should also consider for linux whether to use our tested tree on
xenbits, but I think that is less likely to be desirable.

BTW, the canonical URL for Linus' tree is
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git not
what is currently in defconfig.

Ian.