[Automated-testing] Lava, Labgrid & POE

[Vincent Prince]

Board farm will be for CI testing, and I'm trying to get an up-to-date
point of view :)
BTW, I found that discussion very instructive:
https://plus.google.com/+RobertSchwebel/posts/ZhPkfimWNk2

Thanks for answer,
Vincent


2018-04-05 11:21 GMT+02:00 Neil Williams <neil.williams at linaro.org>:

> On 5 April 2018 at 10:03, Vincent Prince <vincent.prince.fr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm planning to create a board farm and I have some questions.
>>
>
> Is this a board farm for manually allocating devices or is this a pool for
> continuous integration testing with devices being allocated automatically
> as jobs are generated from commits?
>
> LAVA is aimed at the CI device pool. Depending on the number of devices
> available and the expected number of jobs, you can have some devices
> available to particular teams and run the CI on others, it just requires a
> little bit of planning.
>
> LAVA has internal device management (using Jinja2 templating).
>
>
>> I found LAVA and Labgrid very interesting frameworks and I was wondering
>> if they can work together or are there any plan for it?
>>
>
> The two systems manage devices in different ways according to the
> different use cases.
>
>
>>
>> I'm working on custom iMX6 board with both 24V and POE for power-supply
>> and 2 bridged ethernet ports. I'll need to test both ports without creating
>> a L2 loop, and I'll need to toggle power from POE to 24V to see if they
>> work both.
>>
>> In labgrid, it seems to be possible to control switch ports via SNMP (
>> ethernetport.py/apc.py..), do you know if LAVA supports it?
>>
>
> LAVA supports any power control scripting that the admins can administer
> reliably. The Linaro lab in Cambridge uses SNMP for PDU control.
>
>
>>
>> I don't know if it is the right place to ask, do you guys have hardware
>> suggestion for 8-port manageable switch with POE?
>>
>> Last, I want to thank you all for great work on automated testing done
>> those days.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Vincent
>>
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