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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/22/2013 05:15 PM, Steve Langasek
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<pre wrap="">Hi Nicholas,
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 05:03:45PM -0500, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I was speaking with Paul on IRC about 12.04.2, and he mentioned the
hardware enablement changes (a new stack) is going to be pushed to
precise during 12.04.2. During the .1 release, we pre-tested the
kernel, and I think some of the video changes as well (we did this
by having special call for testing events, and utilized ppa
versions).
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<pre wrap="">AFAIK, there is going to be new kernel, boot, and video bits coming
for 12.04.2 -- is this correct? Depending on if these packages can
be made via a ppa, we (community QA team) can test them before the
images are spun. If not, we can pursue a smoke testing across
hardware strategy once the images are live, and give those bits
special consideration. Let me know how we might be able to help.
Cheers,
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These changes are already live in the daily precise images:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/precise/daily-live/current/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/precise/daily-live/current/</a>
Note that this new stack is the existing stack from 12.10, and is kept in
sync with any SRUs done there (for kernels etc). So I'm not sure to what
extent hardware-specific smoke testing is needed; if 12.10 works on the
hardware, 12.04.2 should also work, except if there's breakage caused by
mismatches between the 12.10 enablement stack and the upper layers of the
12.04 software stack. Smoke testing is still welcome, I just don't think we
should put too much emphasis on the hardware side of things here as that's
not likely to be the kind of bug we'll run into.
Thanks,
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<font face="Verdana">Steve, wonderful thank you. So it doesn't sound
like we fear any hw enablement issues and can plan to stick to the
current set of testcases for the images and ensure we pass. Of
course, that's not to say we won't be mindful of such things while
testing ;-)<br>
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Nicholas<br>
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