Re: Linux 5.14

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

Hi Linus,

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 4:17 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 2:12 AM Sudip Mukherjee
> <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We were recently working on openqa based testing and is a very basic
> > testing for now.. Build the kernel for x86_64 and arm64, boot it on
> > qemu and rpi4 and test that the desktop environment is working. And,
> > it now tests mainline branch every night. So, last night it tested
> > "5.14.0-7d2a07b76933" and both tests were ok.
>
> Thanks. The more the merrier, and if you do this every night, having a
> fairly low-latency "it stopped working" will be good.
>
> Of course, if you can find some other slightly more oddball
> configuration that you would also like to test, that it would be even
> better.
>
> Because while it's lovely to have more automated testing, if
> _everybody_ only tests x86-64 and arm64, the less common cases get
> little to no testing.
>
> No big deal, but I thought I'd just mention it in case you go "Yeah, I
> know XYZ is entirely irrelevant, but I happen to like it, so I could
> easily add that to the testing too".

A late reply, but better late than never.
I have now added a ppc64 qemu test which will run every night along
with the previous two arch.
We are also working on adding a risc-v board to the tests.


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Regards
Sudip