Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu> writes:
> Thanks, this should help greatly going forward in the community lab.
>
> As it relates to our arm64 unit testing, I will give it a few days (or longer if needed) for next branches to rebase off of
> main and then re-enable arm64 unit testing with the eal_flags_file_prefix_autotest added to the skipped list. David
> explained to me on slack that this patch would not likely be a candidate for backporting, so of course LTS will be
> excluded.
This is in testing area, and maybe it can be considered as an exception
if it allows for improved LTS testing. CC'd Kevin.
Yes, backporting would be ideal from a CI perspective because without it we can't run arm64 testing on LTS tests. But I know there are other considerations which also have to be weighed.
David also has a patch[1] which should resolve the underlying issue which introduces the failures on the unit test we want to skip. If that patch is accepted, and backported, fixing our original problem with unit testing on our arm testbeds, that's another solution, at least for this specific unit test issue.
It would still be nice to have this feature in case we need it otherwise.