Jason Zhao wrote: > Hi, Evan: > > A quick question, do we need a special SPARC platform for testing libbe > in January? > E.g.: > Sun has sun4u and sun4v within SPARC platform and do we need sun4v, > sun4u machines during testing? Are there any special requirement for > dedicated > platform(sun4u and sun4v)?
Only the sun4v platforms will be supported. > > Thanks > Jason > Evan Layton wrote: >> Docs: >> - Is there anything still needed for the release notes? >> - Nothing additional is needed for the release notes however >> the update instructions need to be changed to remove the >> section on running update_grub. >> >> Sparc work: >> - We need to make changes to all the functions that do Grub >> menu manipulations so that if we're running on Sparc we >> work on /boot/menu.lst instead of /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst. >> - Evan will add a list of the functions that will be affected. >> - be_activate() in general... >> - be_append_grub (should have name changed to >> be_append_boot_menu?) >> - be_remove_grub >> - be_update_grub >> - be_default_grub_bootfs >> - be_has_grub_entry >> - change_grub_default >> - The following should just be skipped if running on SPARC >> - be_do_installgrub >> - be_get_grub_vers >> - get_ver_from_capfile >> - Schedule >> - Evan to get time estimates to Jack by COB Wednesday. >> - Evan needs to get the schedule to Jason as soon as possible. >> >> Testing: >> - Complete for November. >> - x86 based test suite still needs to be put back to STC. >> - The test suites will need to be updated to run on sparc. >> - estimate of 2 weeks to to port tests to sparc >> - most testing can be done without repo. However testing for >> zones and pkg image-update can not be done without a IPS >> repo for sparc. >> > >> Bugs: >> - Currently no stoppers... >> - Evan still needs to finish going through the list of bugs to see >> what we want to include in the January and April timeframes. >> - This is mostly cleanup work that we haven't got to yet. >> >> Other: >> - Ethan is continuing to help with various stopper bugs for other >> areas of install. >> - Currently he's helping with the 512MB memory issues. >> - Tim completed the work for getting the fix for 3248 back published >> to builds 86 though 97 while Evan is out at CEC. >> - Is there anything else we still need to do for this? >> - Evan is starting to work on the beginnings of the one pager. >> - We need to think about what we'll be doing for April. >> - One thought was that we'd deliver the code clean-up as well >> as getting libbe and beadm running inside a zone. >> - We may need to limit what we do for SNAP in the April time >> frame based on what priorities there may be with other >> projects. (we may be needed to help with other areas of >> install...) >> - A bug has been filed for the lumount/luunmount wrappers (3691)? >> - For package back porting the package code needs to check for the >> updated version of SUNWinstall-libs in addition to the updated >> version of SUNWipkg. >> - Ethan is talking to Dan about what needs to happen here. >> >> Vacations/Travel/etc? >> - Evan out Nov. 25 - 28, Dec 22 - Jan 5th >> - Jason out 2 weeks in Dec, don't know exact dates yet. >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >
