Linux 5.12's very bad, double ungood day

Posted Mar 9, 2021 14:54 UTC (Tue) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
In reply to: Linux 5.12's very bad, double ungood day by daenzer
Parent article: Linux 5.12's very bad, double ungood day

There's already CKI, KernelCI and more. However testing kernels is not that easy. For example for obvious reasons you cannot install a kernel from a bog standard gitlab pipeline.

Linux 5.12's very bad, double ungood day

Posted Mar 9, 2021 16:12 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

You could run user-mode-linux, or possibly kvm if the platform has nested VMs.

Linux 5.12's very bad, double ungood day

Posted Mar 9, 2021 17:32 UTC (Tue) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050) [Link]

Yeah, user-mode-linux should have sufficed in this case.

And there are CI pipelines on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ running VMs via KVM, which should allow booting kernels built as part of the pipeline as well. (Another possibility is having dedicated test machines which can be powered on/off remotely; Mesa is using a number of those for testing GPU drivers)