[yocto-ab] YP HW test strategy

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 08:15 -0500, William Mills wrote:
> Last meeting I was discussing YP testing on HW and suggesting we adopt LAVA.
> Since that time:
> * I have found out that Minnow board was already being worked on for 
> inclusion in LAVA
> * I formally requested for Linaro to complete the Minnow board LAVA 
> integration happen
> * Linaro has announced that the LMP board IP have been donated to the 
> open compute project
>      OCP plans to manufacture boards and give them away
>      The IP can be obtained from OCP under an open HW license and OCP 
> will be accepting/expecting patches
>      [LMP are the little boards that help test a device under test, SD 
> card mux, USB mux, HDMI mux etc]
> [Both Beagleboard and Beaglebone black are already supported in LAVA]
> * Khem Raj met with the LAVA team at ARM tech con and was impressed
>      * Khem said he was interested in adopting LAVA for his own work
>      * Khem said he was going to suggest adopting LAVA at the OE level
> 
> I will be on the call today if we wish to discuss or we can continue here.
> 
> Richard,
> I am happy to make introductions between the LAVA team and YP if they 
> have not already introduced themselves.
> Who should be on the list for that?

I'm assuming you saw the email from Paul Eggleton where he evaluated the
current position with LAVA and some of the other technologies out there?
LAVA has some attractive features but also some downsides. I believe
some of the LAVA people did see and respond to that email.

What isn't clear right now is who would be prepared to step up and
address some of the downsides. The missing piece in getting strong
hardware testing for YP has always been the engineering and I think
whoever steps up and makes that happen is going to have the most
influence in which technologies get used in what capacities.

Being perfectly honest, right now we're struggling with resources even
to tackle issues in the day to day running/bug fixing/updating of the
core of the project. I'm planning to talk more about this on today's
call.

Cheers,

Richard