Hello Fengguang,

I hope this email finds you well. We have a few questions we would appreciate your insight on. We can discuss the answers on this email thread or at the tail end of our call tomorrow.

- Can LKP run without having to install packages or tests, only the job definitions (scripts) ? If we can run tests without having to install the pre-req every time, that will speed up testing if we use a rootfs that has all its pre-req installed.

- We want to get a better understanding of the benchmark parser including how benchmark regression are detected

- We want to get a better understanding of the compare functionality

- What are the plans for alignment with upstream LKP? By examining the https://github.com/fengguang/lkp-tests and comparing it to https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git, it seems the trees started diverging in March 2020.

- Which tests are Intel specific? Are there plans for porting them to Arm64?

- How difficult is it to modularise the following LKP components: - Monitors - Tests - Test-plans - Email reports - Harmonizing output - Functional - Benchmark - Regression detection

We look forward to talking to you tomorrow.

Cheers! anmar