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

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

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.

Thank you for taking these up!

> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian.

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