Re: Towards 4.14 LTS

[Tom Gall]

> On Nov 19, 2017, at 5:20 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:50:23PM -0600, Tom Gall wrote:
>> At Linaro weâve been putting effort into regularly running kernel tests over 
>> arm, arm64 and x86_64 targets. On those targets weâre running mainline, -next, 
>> 4.4, and 4.9 kernels and yes we are adding to this list as the hardware 
>> capacity grows.
>> 
>> For test buckets weâre using just LTP, kselftest and libhugetlbfs and
>> like kernels we will add to this list. 
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't understand this sentance.

I was just saying that we intend to add more test buckets and more kernels.

For instance 4.13-rc just was added to the mix.

For test buckets, Iâm currently dorking around with some make check targets
for a few interesting packages. 

> 
>> With the 4.14 cycle being a little âdifferentâ in so much as the goal to 
>> have it be an LTS kernel I think itâs important to take a look at some 
>> 4.14 test results. 
>> 
>> Grab a beverage, this is a bit of a long post. But quick summery 4.14 as 
>> released looks just as good as 4.13, for the test buckets I named above.
> 
> Thanks for doing this testing and letting us know.
> 
> greg k-h