Re: [PATCH 00/39] maintainer updates for -rc2 pre-PR

[Thomas Huth]

On 21/11/2024 18.31, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 at 16:58, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > This is a mostly testing focused set of patches but a few bug fixes as
> > > well. I plan to send the PR in on Monday. I can drop any patches that
> > > are objected to but I think its pretty safe.
> > >
> > > Contains:
> > >
> > >    - Daniel's clean-up of functional tests
> > >    - Another avocado->function conversion from Thomas
> > >    - Update the tuxrun baseline images
> > >    - Minor fix to the rust pl011 device
> > >    - Documentation clarification on identity
> >
> > Should we really be updating the tuxrun baseline images
> > in the middle of a release freeze period? Unless the old images
> > are going to go away and break the tests, I think it would
> > be better to stick with what we're currently testing.
>
> Well the arm64be fixed a real problem and while I was at it I figured
> might as well keep the rest in sync. I have tested them so they all pass
> (although I'm waiting on the CI run now).

But there could be new intermittent problems in the new images ... so if 
we'd face such a problem, we would not know whether it is the image or 
whether it is QEMU. Thus maybe let's better keep the old versions for 9.2 
(except for the arm64 patch that fixes a real problem), and use the new 
versions for 10.0 ?

 Thomas