Re: [PATCH v2 11/14] tests: add tuxrun baseline test to avocado

[Thomas Huth]

On 21/02/2023 10.45, Alex Bennée wrote:
> The TuxRun project (www.tuxrun.org) uses QEMU to run tests on a wide
> variety of kernel configurations on wide range of our emulated
> platforms. They publish a known good set of images at:
>
>    https://storage.tuxboot.com/
>
> to help with bisecting regressions in either the kernel, firmware or
> QEMU itself. The tests are pretty lightweight as they contain just a
> kernel with a minimal rootfs which boots a lot faster than most of the
> distros. In time they might be persuaded to version there known good

"*their* known good baselines" ?

> baselines and we can then enable proper checksums.
>
> For a couple of tests we currently skip:
>
>    - mips64, a regression against previous stable release
>    - sh4, very unstable with intermittent oops
>
> Total run time: 340s (default) -> 890s (debug)
>
> Overall coverage rate (tested targets + disabled tests):
>    lines......: 16.1% (126894 of 789848 lines)
>    functions..: 20.6% (15954 of 77489 functions)
>    branches...: 9.3% (40727 of 439365 branches)

Acked-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>