From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: Update seabios and upstream qemu versions used on xen-unstable Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:59:52 -0400 Message-ID: <20140415175952.GA10389@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <534BC268.6030900@m2r.biz> <20140415111832.GA2554@perard.uk.xensource.com> <563734910.20140415135100@eikelenboom.it> <534D32FF.7020308@eu.citrix.com> <534D4332.1090206@m2r.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <534D4332.1090206@m2r.biz> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Fabio Fantoni Cc: xen-devel , Stefano Stabellini , George Dunlap , Ian Jackson , Sander Eikelenboom , Anthony PERARD List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 04:33:22PM +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > Il 15/04/2014 15:24, George Dunlap ha scritto: > >On 04/15/2014 12:51 PM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > >> > >>Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 1:18:32 PM, you wrote: > >> > >>>On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:11:36PM +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > >>>>I think it would be good to update seabios and upstream qemu > >>>>versions used > >>>>with xen-unstable. > >>>>Recently I tested on my testing system with xen-unstable > >>>>seabios updated to > >>>>debian package version 1.7.4-4 without finding regressions > >>>>and upstream qemu > >>>>2.0-rc0 from git where I found 2 regressions already > >>>>reported and solved on > >>>>upstream git. > >>>>I updated qemu to 2.0-rc2 where I did some tests without finding other > >>>>regressions or bugs for now. > >>>>I also noticed on the wiki page of the next hackathon the > >>>>topic "QEMU and > >>>>SeaBIOS regression testing". As I reported some time ago it > >>>>would be of > >>>>great help. > >> > >>>I was thinking of submitting the update for QEMU when QEMU 2.0 will be > >>>out. > >> > >>Wouldn't it be sensible for xen-unstable to follow at least the > >>qemu rc's so those > >>get build and tested in the osstests ? > > > >It might make more sense to have a osstest target that used > >vanilla upstream -- in fact, there may be one already. > > > > -George > > Yes is the vanilla upstream test that is missing, at least testing > each stable version from rc0 can be a start but test daily or weekly > git master would be perfect. > Now only upstream qemu of xen git is tested but is old of some > upstream versions ago and the merging with newer versions for now > were always after a long time out of the stable upstream version :( Fabio, Is that something you would be comfortable taking a look at? I fear that a lot of us are busy with some of the hypervisor development and this is kind of on the end of the plate - which means we would probably get to it but not right away :-(