Re: amdgpu for jessie-backports?

Hi,

I've checked my applied patch to the sid package, and in fact, it was the i386 tests I deactivated. amd64 tests are already KO on sid anyway.

$ less llvm_disable_tests.diff
--- debian/rules.orig 2016-03-08 11:40:23.577165827 +0100
+++ debian/rules 2016-03-08 11:40:41.152629055 +0100
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@

ifeq (,$(filter nocheck, $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
# List of the archs we know we have 100 % tests working
-ARCH_LLVM_TEST_OK := i386
+ARCH_LLVM_TEST_OK :=

override_dh_auto_test:

If the deep investigation you wrote about consists in passing all the auto-tests on amd64 and i386 on both stretch/sid and jessie/stable, and make a diff, it will take a lot of time to me (considering I do not have a stretch pbuilder environment ready :( ).

Regards,

Jérémy

2016-08-16 13:22 GMT+02:00 Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>:

Hi,

>I do backports llvm-3.8 and mesa-12.1 from testing/unstable/experimental for my personnal machine and it goes quite straight forward.
>The only things I did was to remove amd64 from the list of architecture on which all llvm self tests pass.

this sounds like *bad* to me.
(speaking for llvm-3.8)
if the testsuite has failures, they have to be addressed, disabling them is a no-go at least for me
(disabling after a deep investigation might be fine, depending on what fails)

For sure, before backporting llvm 3.8 we have to:
- fix mips64el
- make the current package migrate.

I don't speak for mesa, I have almost zero knowledge.

So, if you want a backport, please help in testing and reporting failures, and we will try to make it go in jessie-bpo

G.

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