On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 12:53:33PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 04/08/16 12:46, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Wei Liu writes ("[OSSTEST PATCH RFC 01/14] ts-xen-build: always compile in > > FEP support"): > >> By default FEP depends on debug flag. When we are near release the debug > >> flag will be turned off. In order to test a release build, we explicitly > >> enable FEP in build configuration. > >> > >> Since we target Xen versions that already have Kconfig support, only a > >> Kconfig option is created for now. > > What do you mean by "we target" ? osstest needs to support all > > versions of Xen which are still in security support, which goes back > > to 4.4 right now. > > Xen 4.8 will have CONFIG_HVM_FEP available, and the hvm_fep command line > option is available irrespective of whether it is a debug build of the > hypervisor. > > Xen 4.5-4.7 have hvm_fep available on the command line, strictly for > debug builds of Xen only. > > Older versions have no FEP support at all. > > > XTF tests which require FEP to function will probe and SKIP if support > is not available. This does mean that some tests can only sensibly work > against newer hypervisors. >
In that case I think I would just abolish the fep test? Currently if hypervisor doesn't support fep, the whole job is aborted. > ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel