madaidan via Whonix Forum:
@Patrick Would it be possible to make the CI actually test booting the kernel via e.g. kexec?
I would love to have this.
Not only I would love to kexec boot the kernel but also run an automated test suite.
I don’t know if it is possible on travis CI. The current CI is rather
complex, hacky. Travis CI is based on Ubuntu. VM based. Dunno if kexec
would be supported there. The actual kernel build happens inside a
docker ( http://travis.debian.net/ ). Dunno if that docker could be
restarted with the newly built kernel either.
Also do we really have to invent this? Doesn’t kernel.org already have
automated testing / fuzzing on CI servers somewhere that we can re-use?