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On 19.02.20 10:22, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Jürgen Groß <jgross@suse.com> writes:
>> On 18.02.20 22:03, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> BTW, why isn't stuff like this not catched during next or at least
>>> before the final release? Is nothing running CI on upstream with all
>>> that XEN muck active?
>>
>> This problem showed up by not being able to start the X server (probably
>> not the freshest one) in dom0 on a moderate aged AMD system.
>>
>> Our CI tests tend do be more text console based for dom0.
> 
> tools/testing/selftests/x86/io[perm|pl] should have caught that as well,
> right? If not, we need to fix the selftests.

Hmm, yes. Thanks for the pointer.

Will ask our testing specialist what is done in this regard and how it
can be enhanced.


Juergen