Hi David,

On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 17:47 +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:

quoted

Please have people test kernel changes on SPARC on real hardware. QEMU does not
emulate sun4v, for example, and therefore testing in QEMU does not cover all
of SPARC hardware.

There are plenty of people on the debian-sparc, gentoo-sparc and sparclinux
LKML mailing lists that can test kernel patches for SPARC. If SPARC-relevant
changes need to be tested, please ask there and don't bury such things in a
deeply nested thread in a discussion which doesn't even have SPARC in the
mail subject.

out of curiosity, do people monitor sparclinux@ for changes to actively 
offer testing when required -- like would it be sufficient to CC 
relevant maintainers+list (like done here) and raise in the cover letter 
that some testing help would be appreciated?

Yes, that's definitely the case. But it should be obvious that from the subject
of the mail that the change affects SPARC as not everyone can read every mail
they're receiving through mailing lists.

I'm trying to keep up, but since I'm on mailing lists for many different architectures,
mails can slip through the cracks.

For people that want to test changes on SPARC regularly, I can also offer accounts
on SPARC test machines running on a Solaris LDOM (logical domain) on a SPARC T4.

Adrian

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