Re: [PATCH] xen: arm64: Add support for Renesas RCar Gen3 H3 Salvator-X platform

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>]

On 07/07/16 13:43, Lars Kurth wrote:
>
>> On 7 Jul 2016, at 12:28, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also CC Lars.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 12:12:52PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>>> (CC Wei for the release part)
>>>
>>> Hi Dirk,
>>>
>>> On 04/07/16 07:51, Dirk Behme wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com>
>>>
>>> Thank you for adding support of a new board in Xen.
>>>
>>> During the last hackathon, we discussed about improving pre-release testing
>>> on ARM hardware [1] and helping users to boot Xen on supported board.
>>>
>>> This patch is the first board officially supported since then, so I would
>>> like to start applying what was discussed (I will put on a wiki page later).
>>> Below the list of things that I would like to see when a new board is added:
>>>
>>>    - Create a wiki page to explain the requirements to boot Xen on the board
>>> (e.g new firmware if not supported out of box, linux version,...);
>>>    - Add a link to the new page in [2];
>>>    - Add the contact details in [3] of someone who would could test
>>> pre-release and help out users to boot Xen on the board.
>>>
>>> I do not expect the latter point to be time consuming. It is basically
>>> checking if Xen boots before each release and possibly update the
>>> requirements of the board. For the part helping users, it will mostly be
>>> question related to booting Xen on the hardware. Others may not be able to
>>> answer because they do not have the board on their desk.
>>>
>>
>> FWIW having some wiki pages, and most importantly contact details, would
>> be a good starting point.
>
> I did actually create these pages during the Hackathon and sent it out to the list, but they were not populated by anyone. See
> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test
> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test/Results
>
>> Can we also have a section in MAINTAINERS for different boards (or a
>> dedicated file?) so that we can easily gather all contact and send
>> emails in a batch when the release is near?
>
> I am not in principle against this, but a concrete proposal would need to be made. In fact that may be better than using the wiki (given the lack of traction around it)

I think a file in the repository would be more formal than a wiki page.

However, the MAINTAINERS file may not be the right place because some 
board will not have any specific code/file in Xen (e.g the RCAR-3 only 
add earlyprintk). But we would still want to keep track of them for 
testing purpose and advertising the board supported.

I was thinking to add a file board under docs/misc/arm/boards.txt with 
the list of board and a contact associated I would add some words about 
the "responsibility" of the contact such as:
    - Testing
    - Answering questions related to the board

I would also keep the wiki page [1] (+ a link in the file) to log the 
testing result per release.

Finally, we may want to track whether the board is "supported", 
"obsolete", "untested"...

I will try to write a concrete proposal.

Cheers,

[1] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test/Results

-- 
Julien Grall

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