Weekly Status Hernaldo Ramirez

2025

Week 35: Aug 25th - Aug 29th

Accomplishments

• deos653p1-runtime
  • Behavior confirmed for tests with a different approach described in the User Guide, emailed Mark with the explanation, and committed the changes.
• Kernel
  • Working on tpk289 and tpk291

Goals for next week

• Kernel
  • Complete tasks for tpk291, tpk289 and tpk290.

Other

• Time not charged to DDC-i
  • I was out of the office on Thursday, August 28st, due to an HR-related activity.

Week 34: Aug 18th - Aug 22th

Accomplishments

• Kernel
  • Test tpk082 already ported and in svn; not yet tested on real hardware because it requires 4 GiB of available RAM.
• MTL
  • Check test impacts after a change suggested by John K. in the code.
• deos653p1-runtime
  • Investigating if there is a reason why the error process does not follow the normal error process outline on 3 specific tests.

Goals for next week

• deos653p1-runtime
  • Get a report of the investigation
• Kernel
  • Check tests that were affected by a requirements update.

Other

• Time not charged to DDC-i
  • I was out of the office on Monday, August 18th, due to a family emergency.
  • I was out of the office on Thursday, August 21st, due to an HR-related activity.
  • I supported an HR meeting at Avionyx on August 22nd for two hours.
• Kernel
  • tpk160 (previously on hold): Re-visited VAS theory, as it's been quite some time since the last time I worked on kernel verification. Supported by Daniel.

Planned Time-Off

• Avionyx HR Activity: Thursday, Aug 28th (all-day).

Week 33: Aug 11th - Aug 15th

Accomplishments

• Completed task tpk053:
  • Address calculations for test 210 were modified in the Makefile, remove some TODOs.
  • For 64-bit architectures, addresses are now dynamically calculated; added detailed comments to clarify these changes.
  • For 32-bit architectures, addresses were calculated based on the original linker script address plus a specific offset to reach the target location.
• Identified issues with exceptions in tpk403; a detailed summary was sent to Ron via email for further review.
• Currently working on porting PDT/VTP/PT computations for tpk082. Received valuable assistance from Daniel with the class he developed for the commonPDT file.

Goals for next week

• Test tpk082 with specific platform characteristics — will need some guidance from Ron on this.
• Review tpk160 to determine the scope of work required.
• Support any additional tasks assigned by Ron or Mark.

Planned Time-Off

• Avionyx HR Activity: Thursday, Aug 21th (all-day).

Week 32: Aug 4th - Aug 8th

Accomplishments

• cffsapi653p2
  • Sort the requirements in the RCA and requirements trace alphabetically test cases.
  • Remove the local style file and references in the test cases and resolve warnings and errors according with the HTML checker.
• Kernel
  • Enable tpk190, passing for all qemus, and COMe-ctl6.
• IOI ringbuffer
  • Add reference to common/test-utils/testcase-styles.css in the test cases documents.
  • Updates to the RCA tables to match with the expected style and resolve warnings and errors according with the HTML checker.

Goals for next week

• Complete tpk053 updates.
• Complete tpk403 updates.

Other

• I migrated my environment to a new laptop — time was not charged to DDC-I for 8/7/25 and the first half of 8/8/25.
• Attended Avionyx Training on Wednesday afternoon

Planned Time-Off

• Holiday: Friday, Aug 15th.