Martin Lucina writes ("Re: [PATCH] app-tools: Support old -D__RUMPUSER_XEN__
for now"):
> [email protected] said:
> > A patch to change this in Xen upstream exists and will be backported,
> > but until that makes it through to a stable point release of Xen 4.5,
> > we should support both #defines.
>
> Thinking about this some more, wouldn't it be better if the Xen 4.5 (and
> later stable) osstest builds were done against a known-good commit/tag of
> rumprun-xen rather than master?
They are. That known-good commit is automatically updated by our CI
system, based on test results. Those tests run (because of limited
resources etc.) only with xen-unstable, not with older releases.
> That way we can make invasive changes without affecting those builds, and
> you would not need to backport anything.
If you would prefer to make stable branches of rumprun-xen then that
would be fine of course, and we could use those for tests of stable
branches of Xen. I didn't think you'd want to do that.
Ian.
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