[Automated-testing] LAVA Intro presentation

[Alan Bennett]

All;
For those that missed the event, you can find the recording @
http://youtu.be/ZpKRz9-SMGA

The "raw" meeting notes can also be found in the Google document:
http://goo.gl/IZUtzY

Alan


On 24 January 2014 12:50, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 20:52 +0100, Bird, Tim wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm really sorry I missed this event, as I was very interested in
> comparing LAVA to Cogent's
> > current systems (as I understand them), and to my own systems.
> >
>
> Similarly for me as well. There were some workflow and integration
> concerns I wanted to discuss and how Lava compared to Autotest in this
> respect.
>
> For example: what facilities exist in Lava for target management?
> Consoles? Logs? Power control? I use conmux for this with Autotest.
>
> This unfortunately landed in the middle of some very heavy churn for me
> in a number of areas, and it would have been difficult to make the
> discussion even had I received the invite yesterday. Can we work to have
> a few days notice for things like this in the future?
>
> I'm particularly disappointed to have missed it as I was the one that
> requested it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darren
>
> > Were any answers provided to the questions below?  If so, could they be
> posted somewhere
> > for review?  I think we discussed setting up a page on the Yocto Project
> wiki about
> > this effort.  Has anyone done that yet?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >  -- Tim
> >
> >
> > On Friday, January 24, 2014 8:48 AM,
> automated-testing-bounces at yoctoproject.org On Behalf Of William Mills
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here are my starter question.
> > > (Some of these I now know but I had these question a year ago when we
> > > started looking.)
> > >
> > > 1) Is LAVA suitable for personal machine deployments?
> > >
> > > I think the initial focus of this project should be a board lab
> > > environment.  This seems to be the natural environment of LAVA.
> > >
> > > That said, I think the Yocto Project recommended test tool should scale
> > > down to situations where a developer has a board attached to her PC
> > > where she does bitbake builds and then runs test locally.
> > >
> > > What issues do you see for LAVA in this situation?
> > >
> > > 2) We want to test images as produced by bitbake, can we do that with
> LAVA?
> > >
> > > For Ubuntu and other distros, LAVA uses a tool at test start to combine
> > > a generic image and a hw specific add on.  Bitbake already does this.
> > >
> > > Can we bypass this step and test the images just as they were produced
> > > from bitbake?  Do you already have examples of this working?
> > >
> > > 3) What types of image deployment / boot can you support?
> > >
> > > The traditional LAVA image deployment is to use multiple partitions on
> a
> > > boot storage device: a master image and a test image. I believe LAVA
> > > controls the boot process over a serial port to direct the boot flow to
> > > the master or test partition.
> > >
> > > What other scenarios do you support and do you have examples of these
> > > working already?
> > >
> > > * Network boot of kernel & standalone initramfs?
> > > * Network boot of kernel w/ NFS root?
> > > * SDMUX based boot from one of two SD cards based on dispatcher
> control?
> > > * BBB bootmode can be controlled via a Ethernet controlled relay board,
> > > can LAVA supoprt that?
> > > * others?
> > >
> > > 4) Yocto Project supports ARM, x86, MIPS, and PowerPC architectures.
>  Is
> > > that an issue for LAVA?
> > >
> > > We are starting with BeagleBoneBlack (ARMv7) and Minnow board (x86) but
> > > will eventually want to cover all the architectures.  YP test
> > > infrastructure users will want to add their own boards.
> > >
> > > How hard is this?
> > > Is LAVA flexibility enough to control various boards?
> > >
> > > 5) What is the size of the team that works on LAVA?  How many people
> are
> > > using outside of the linaro.org LAB?
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>
>


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