Re: [PATCH 00/39] maintainer updates for -rc2 pre-PR

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> On 21/11/2024 18.31, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 at 16:58, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is a mostly testing focused set of patches but a few bug fixes as
>>>> well. I plan to send the PR in on Monday. I can drop any patches that
>>>> are objected to but I think its pretty safe.
>>>>
>>>> Contains:
>>>>
>>>>    - Daniel's clean-up of functional tests
>>>>    - Another avocado->function conversion from Thomas
>>>>    - Update the tuxrun baseline images
>>>>    - Minor fix to the rust pl011 device
>>>>    - Documentation clarification on identity
>>>
>>> Should we really be updating the tuxrun baseline images
>>> in the middle of a release freeze period? Unless the old images
>>> are going to go away and break the tests, I think it would
>>> be better to stick with what we're currently testing.
>> Well the arm64be fixed a real problem and while I was at it I
>> figured
>> might as well keep the rest in sync. I have tested them so they all pass
>> (although I'm waiting on the CI run now).
>
> But there could be new intermittent problems in the new images ... so
> if we'd face such a problem, we would not know whether it is the image
> or whether it is QEMU. Thus maybe let's better keep the old versions
> for 9.2 (except for the arm64 patch that fixes a real problem), and
> use the new versions for 10.0 ?

Fair enough. Will drop the others for now.

>
>  Thomas

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro