pre-submit tests for github PRs

[Philip Race]

Yet right "at the top" of the list is Linux 86 ...  do we have no way to 
put it on some 2ndary list ?

-phil.

On 5/22/22 3:58 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 23/05/2022 8:22 am, Philip Race wrote:
>> Why is it that the vast majority of PRs are recording spurious 
>> looking failures of github pre-submit tests ?
>>
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pulls?q=type%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Arfr
>>
>> There seems to be so much noise in these that I pay no attention to 
>> them any more (except for jcheck)
>> but they seem to cause concern in some contributors who can't tell 
>> what they might have broken
>>
>> Even weirder is that we test Linux x86 there ?? When it isn't a 
>> mainstream platform. Why ?
>> Especially since it seem to be the most common failure.
>
> GHA tests a range of OpenJDK ports, not just the "mainstream platforms".
>
> The existing linux-86 failures (and others) are due to the Loom 
> integration which only fully supports a couple of platforms and which 
> broke all the other ports upon initial integration. Some folks in the 
> community have been working through things to fix that.
>
> David
>
>> -phil.