On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 13:47:50 -0600 Shawn Anastasio <sanastasio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to check in and let the community know that Raptor > Engineering will be officially dedicating development resources towards > maintaining, developing, and testing the existing Linux KVM facilities > for PowerNV machines. > > To this end, we have developed a publicly-accessible CI/CD system[1] > that performs bi-hourly automated KVM smoke tests on PowerNV, as well as > some more advanced tests involving PCIe passthrough of various graphics > cards through VFIO on a POWER9/PowerNV system. Access can also be > provided upon request to any kernel developers that wish to use the test > system for development/testing against their own trees. > > If anybody has any questions about the test system, or any insights > about outstanding work items regarding KVM on PowerNV that might need > attention, please feel free to reach out. Hi, What are you supposing the value to the community is for a CI pipeline that always fails? Are you hoping the community will address the failing tests or monitor the failures to try to make them not become worse? I would imagine that CI against key developer branches or linux-next would be more useful than finding problems after we've merged with mainline, but it's not clear there's any useful baseline here to monitor for regressions. Thanks, Alex > [1] > https://gitlab.raptorengineering.com/raptor-engineering-public/kernel/kernel-developers-ci-cd-access/linux/-/pipelines/1075
