Re: [Ksummit-discuss] kselftest - What's in 3.17 and plans for 3.18 and beyond

[Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>]

(2014/08/13 17:35), Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:13:07 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I see, for that purpose, installing testcase may not fit.
>>> BTW, how would it cover cross-build?
>>
>> I'm interested in this as well. I'm working on a tool that crossbuilds a
>> very simple busybox rootfs and boots in QEMU for as many architectures
>> as possible. I want to make it easy to sanity test all the major
>> architectures. Right now it does little more than boot to a login
>> prompt, but I'd like to get the kselftests into it also.
> 
> Hm that sounds like a goal similar to what Rob Landley has
> described as one goal for Aboriginal Linux as well.
> http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html

Hmm, I also consider that the Aboriginal Linux and other busybox-based minimal
distro may not have "make" on their rootfs. In that case, we need to make self-
executable binaries and install it with testing "ash" scripts so that it can
run on busybox. It may be just a technical issue.

> If such cross builds are triggered from git pushes akin to how
> Fengguang's 0-day is already working we are in a positive
> flow I think.

Agreed.

Thank you,

-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com