On 29.07.2013 22:38, Matt Turner wrote: >> The alternative here is the automated testing that I've talked about with >> others on FOSDEM and Prague last year, but that still needs to be done. >> Amongst other testing, the idea would be to pick the latest ISO and boot it >> on some virtualization platform and catch the console output to ensure it >> booted successfully and not tests failed. > > Some recent problems have involved linux-firmware being broken. I > don't think virtualization will help notice that, e.g., the Tigon 3 > firmware is missing.
Ideally, you'd use virtualization and some concrete physical platforms in parallel. For virtualization, KVM Qemu might be quick to get results, I think I used something like -append 'earlyprintk=serial,keep' -serial file:/abs/path/log/file previously to log the full console output from inside a KVM machine. That could be the base of a regression test suite. Best, Sebastian
