[Automated-testing] Board management API discussion at ATS - my ideas

[Mark Brown]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 10:41:14PM +0000, Tim.Bird at sony.com wrote:

> > > AFAIU KernelCI itself doesn't do any board
> > > management. It simply requests test jobs to be executed by connected
> > > labs. These are mostly LAVA labs but don't have to be. It's up to each
> > > LAB how to execute the test job. In other words KernelCI doesn't
> > > belong to this board management discussion.

> Does KernelCI not know anything about the boards?  Doesn't it have to
> at least know the architecture, to determine if it can request that a board
> execute a test for a particular image?

It knows what it needs to figure out which boards are expected to boot
which kernel configurations.

> Doesn't kernelCI now have some hardware tests?  Wouldn't it need to
> know what boards had hardware that was applicable to that test?

That'll need to be figured out at some point but right now the testing
stuff is still in development so it's specifically whitelisted.

> 
> Again - my ignorance is showing here.  But this sounds more like 
> test scheduling again, and not board management.
> 
> > 
> > Agreed. KernelCI only has test jobs and collects results. The labs are
> > completely independent regarding scheduling of tests to boards.
> > 
> [rest snipped]
>  -- Tim
> 
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