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

[Tim.Bird at sony.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Gleixner 
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Bird, Timothy wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> You might look into the CI-RT infrastructure which does exactly that with
> debian packaged kernels.
> 
>        https://ci-rt.linutronix.de/RT-Test/about.jsp
> 
> All it requires is power switch and serial ... No fancy extra magic
> hardware.

I'll definitely take a look at this.  Avoiding extra hardware is
a big plus.

I seem to recall some mention of using kexec to boot into the kernel under test,
from the presentation at ELCE.  Is that correct?  If so, this will work for some tests,
but not, obviously, for production boot-time tests.  Also, is kexec supported on
all Linux platforms?  What platforms are supported in the lab now?

I guess I have lots of questions - should I direct them to ci at linutronix.de?

Thanks!
 -- Tim