multi-arch testing plan

[Philippe Ombredanne]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 09:11:28AM -0700, enh wrote:
>> is there a plan for improving testing? especially for multiple
>> architectures and multiple personalities?
>
> There was a promising idea by Mike Frysinger to reuse a framework:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/strace/mailman/strace-devel/thread/201305081422.38240.vapier%40gentoo.org/#msg30823022

The tests at http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/sandbox.git;a=tree;f=tests;hb=HEAD
look rather awesome...

And Mike I see that you are quite active there too:
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/tree/HEAD/testcases/kernel/syscalls

On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 10:39:36PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 May 2013 21:06:17 Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:35:16PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
[...]
> > > i meant create a dedicated git repo under the LTP umbrella project rather
> > > than putting into a subdir of the main LTP repo precisely for the issues
> > > you highlight.  then git submodule should be fine for both strace &
> > > sandbox. https://github.com/linux-test-project/
> >
> > Yes, that should be fine for all its users.
>
> doesn't seem to be an issue there, so unless something crazy happens, i'll try
> to get things going and let you know once it gets to a usable stage

Mike:
How would you suggest we go about that?
I did not see your sandbox/tests code landing in LTP FWIW.
Would you need a helping hand?
How far would be this code (gentoo sanbox/tests or ltp) to be usable
with strace?

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Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne