[Automated-testing] Looking for a Debian kernel provisioning solution

[Bird, Timothy]

So, I want to test LTS kernels on a MinnowBoard Turbot....

I'm looking for a board farm solution that can handle
building a mainline (or LTS) kernel, and deploy it to the MinnowBoard,
and reboot the board to a Linux shell prompt.

The board is running Ubuntu 16.04.3, using a 4.4 Linux kernel by default,
and uses grub2, with OS software coming from a micro-SD card.
I have power control of the board, and serial console, and a network
connection (with ssh).

The upstream kernels archive of Ubuntu have the software that I'll need.

But I'm wondering if there's existing board farm software (e.g. labgrid)
that can handle the intricacies of installing a newly built kernel onto
the board, and rebooting it.

I'm about to write what I need using ttc and some custom scripts, but
I wanted to check if there was existing software out there to do this.
My current strategy is to toggle booting between a known-good kernel,
and a kernel under test, using the known-good kernel to write the
kernel-under-test to the sdcard, update the grub entries, reboot
the board, and navigate the grub entries to select the kernel-under-test.

Thanks for any tips or pointers you might have.

Regards,
  -- Tim