CIP testing and kernel maintenance report week 34 and 35

Hi,

a couple of weeks with some tangible results.

++ Kernel maintenance

* Renesas latest patch series review
* In progress
* Kernel features analysis.
* Ongoing discussion with several CIP Members through the cip-dev
mailing list
* How to back-port upstream BSP patches to CIP kernel
* Support provided through cip-dev mailing list. Ongoing.
* New version of CIP Linux kernel published
* Linux 4.4.83-cip8
* ELCE: Talk about kernel maintenance approved.
* Check
https://osseu17.sched.com/event/ByYa/maintaining-a-linux-kernel-for-13-years-you-must-be-kidding-me-we-need-at-least-30-agustin-benito-bethencourt-ben-hutchings-codethink-ltd

++ CIP testing project

* LAVA has been updated to 2017.7 version which will allow us to close a couple of issues that appeared in older versions and has been fixed in newer ones. #114
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/114
* MR under review and initramfs issues created.
* One of the issues that the new LAVA version fixes in this one,
notified by us several weeks ago #84
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/84
* Status report sent a few days ago to the cip-dev mailing list
* Modifying the script to populate initramfs now that LAVA has been updated. #111 https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/111
* Script is under review.
* Using the verbose mode in LAVA reports to provide more detailed info #115 https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/115
* In progress.
* Bug. kernelci build of cip8 runs out of disk space #130
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/130
* Fixed
* B at D works behind a web proxy so #99 and #128 has been closed
* Error in kernelci with csrf token #128
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/128 closed
* Issues with installing when running behind a web proxy #99
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/99 closed
* As part of our contribution upstream, we keep notifying Linaro developers issues with the licenses files they are fixing diligently.
* B at D introduced at the AGL CIAT Meeting #132
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/132
* Discussed at the CIP testing tech meeting last Thursday
* Slides published on the wiki.
* Report sent to cip-dev mailing list
* New B at D release schedule #134
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/134
* In progress

++ Other tasks

* B at D 101 training session at CIP workshop during ELCE #126
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/126
* Preparation in progress
* Y2038 related meeting and CIP Kernel maintainers meeting at ELCE
* Preparation in progress
* CIP testing project journal started (experiment). Check
https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptesting/journal

Best Regards

Agustin Benito Bethencourt
Principal Consultant - FOSS at Codethink
agustin.benito at codethink.co.uk