From: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Cc: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Willian Rampazzo" <wrampazz@redhat.com>,
julien@xen.org, andre.przywara@arm.com,
stefano.stabellini@linaro.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com,
stratos-dev@op-lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] tests/avocado: add boot_xen tests
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:22:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210218152241.GB433029@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2948d7db-2168-7c5e-a73e-969a67496daa@redhat.com>
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:43:54AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 2/17/21 9:46 PM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 05:19:45PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> >> These tests make sure we can boot the Xen hypervisor with a Dom0
> >> kernel using the guest-loader. We currently have to use a kernel I
> >> built myself because there are issues using the Debian kernel images.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> >> ---
> >> MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> >> tests/acceptance/boot_xen.py | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> 2 files changed, 118 insertions(+)
> >> create mode 100644 tests/acceptance/boot_xen.py
>
> >> +class BootXen(BootXenBase):
> >> +
> >> + @skipIf(os.getenv('GITLAB_CI'), 'Running on GitLab')
> >> + def test_arm64_xen_411_and_dom0(self):
> >> + """
> >> + :avocado: tags=arch:aarch64
> >> + :avocado: tags=accel:tcg
> >> + :avocado: tags=cpu:cortex-a57
> >> + :avocado: tags=machine:virt
> >> + """
> >> + xen_url = ('https://deb.debian.org/debian/'
> >> + 'pool/main/x/xen/'
> >> + 'xen-hypervisor-4.11-arm64_4.11.4+37-g3263f257ca-1_arm64.deb')
> >> + xen_sha1 = '034e634d4416adbad1212d59b62bccdcda63e62a'
> >
> > This URL is already giving 404s because of a new pacakge. I found
> > this to work (but yeah, won't probably last long):
> >
> > xen_url = ('http://deb.debian.org/debian/'
> > 'pool/main/x/xen/'
> > 'xen-hypervisor-4.11-arm64_4.11.4+57-g41a822c392-2_arm64.deb')
> > xen_sha1 = 'b5a6810fc67fd50fa36afdfdfe88ce3153dd3a55'
>
> This is not the same package version... Please understand the developer
> has to download the Debian package sources, check again the set of
> downstream changes between 37 and 57. Each distrib number might contain
> multiple downstream patches. Then the testing has to be done again,
> often enabling tracing or doing single-stepping in gdb. This has a
> cost in productivity. This is why I insist I prefer to use archived
> well tested artifacts, rather than changing package URL randomly.
>
I understand it's not the same version... but from my different and
limited PoV it was the obvious thing to suggest during a review. Of
course using stable archived versions is much better (I believe Alex
will look into that for these packages).
Best,
- Cleber.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-18 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-11 17:19 [PATCH v2 0/7] Xen guest loader (to boot Xen+Kernel under TCG) Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] hw/board: promote fdt from ARM VirtMachineState to MachineState Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 17:40 ` Peter Maydell
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] hw/riscv: migrate fdt field to generic MachineState Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] device_tree: add qemu_fdt_setprop_string_array helper Alex Bennée
2021-02-17 0:44 ` David Gibson
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] hw/core: implement a guest-loader to support static hypervisor guests Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] docs: move generic-loader documentation into the main manual Alex Bennée
2021-02-12 21:38 ` Alistair Francis
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] docs: add some documentation for the guest-loader Alex Bennée
2021-02-12 21:39 ` Alistair Francis
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] tests/avocado: add boot_xen tests Alex Bennée
2021-02-17 14:31 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-17 20:46 ` Cleber Rosa
2021-02-17 22:22 ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-18 15:15 ` Cleber Rosa
2021-02-18 9:43 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-18 15:22 ` Cleber Rosa [this message]
2021-02-25 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Xen guest loader (to boot Xen+Kernel under TCG) Alex Bennée
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