Re: Update seabios and upstream qemu versions used on xen-unstable

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>]

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 :(