12.10 Kernel on 12.04 testing

How to test the 12.10 Kernel and X stack on 12.04 + other necessary packages.

Testing brainstorm

• Daily or as fast as needed
• VMs (KVM, XEN)
• Hardware

  • audio -> needs a plan for spot checking to be automated

  • video -> some good automated testing (pitti to review test plan) What will be the set of tests to run?

    • xorg-gtest
    • piglit (tests 3d)
    • client-space / application tests
  • video hardware
    • Intel
    • ATI w/ -ati driver
    • ATI w/ -fglrx driver
    • NVIDIA w/ -nouveau driver
    • NVIDIA w/ -nvidia driver
  • new hardware
    • will run these tests on new hardware platforms

QA to have a dashboard for 12.04 with updates with latest kernel testing ready by 05/24.

Building

Single toolchain? NO

12.10 to build on 12.04 toolchain Kernel and X server stack into a ppa, along with required packages

Things Worth Testing

• Verify that xdmx, xnest, xvfb and xserver-xephyr are installable (and still start up properly)