[Automated-testing] Yocto Project Automated Testing Status Update

[richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]

On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 21:14 +0000, Tim.Bird at sony.com wrote:
> > On a "full" build we now:
> > 
> > * Run ptests on x86 and arm for ~60 pieces of software
> I'm curious about the hardware coverage.  Is this 
> done on actual hardware, or in virtual machines?  If it's
> on actual hardware, is this in a single location, or distributed
> in some different locations?

Our public testing is done using qemu system mode and KVM acceleration
so its VMs. We now have ARM server hardware to allow us to accelerate
ARM images as well as x86.

There is nothing stopping the tests using real hardware, we just don't
do that with our public infrastructure.

Cheers,

Richard