As mentioned in the recent -dev thread, the kernel team would really use some non-x86 hardware to do build-testing of new kernels. This is especially important to facilitate faster stabilization of minor releases that fix vulnerabilities. @infra, @arch teams, do we have any hardware we could give access to?
For alpha, I am the one who grants access. For those that need/want access, send me: - desired user name - SSH RSA or ed25519 key in a GPG-signed mail and I'll make an account and give your the relevant details.
For build testing, you can use crossdev to build cross-compilers. Cross compiling the kernel is very easy. Unless you actually want a system to test the kernels on (which is hard), there's no point in having access to non-x86 hardware.
Yes, I want real systems that I can build, install , reboot and monitor dmesg. If this is not feasible, please let me know. Otherwise, it's not a viable path to stabilization.
We (alpha) have exactly 1 dev machine (in the sense of people getting accounts on it). Since 90+% of my alpah AT work happens on, randomly rebooting it is not an option. While qemu has a runt of alpha emulation, it's not a complete system and therefore not really useful (yet). It also would be dog slow, even compared to our 15-year-old dev machine. I have an alpha board that I am not really using, I could donate that to the cause, as it were. *However,* mattst88 and I have been talking about the future of alpha in Gentoo and it is likely we will drop it to only-@system-is-stable state sometime this year, so putting effort into having a randomly-rebootable alpha for kernel testing may be a bit wasted.
mpagano: If you are willing to put in work on building stages (openstack-ready stage4-cloud needed), infra/me can set you up with bleeding edge arm64 hardware. Otherwise infra only really has amd64 to offer, preferably on VMs.
Please add also me to the Kernel Testing resources
After almost 5 years, is there still interest in this? As far as I can tell, the kernel team has gotten along relatively well.
(In reply to John Helmert III from comment #7) > After almost 5 years, is there still interest in this? As far as I can tell, > the kernel team has gotten along relatively well. Speaking only for myself, I have not had the need lately to chase down bugs on non amd64 archs.
