[yocto-ab] YP HW test strategy

[William Mills]

On 01/02/2014 09:30 AM, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 11:37 AM, William Mills wrote:
>> On 12/11/2013 08:45 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> I did not but have looked at it now.  It looks like Paul is struggling
>> with the same thing we struggle with: what can LAVA be made to do with a
>> little bit of tweaking vs what is documented as the canonical (pun
>> intended) flow.
>>
>> I suggest a conf call to work through some of this.
>
> Who is going to take the lead getting this moving?

I'll start organizing this now that most people are back from holidays.

> What would be really
> helpful from my point of view is some form of blog/doc showing how to
> get LAVA to do something useful by testing on OE image in some form of
> vm. This way we can get a feel for what LAVA can do, without having to
> setup a master image on some real hardware.
>

That sounds like a good milestone but I am not convinced it is the
first one.  It may be closer to the "done" milestone for the first
phase of this.

The first thing I want to do is get a set of 1st level goals assembled 
from the various players.

I have the people in mind from the TI and Linaro side.  Whom do we need 
from the YP and OE side?  Sounds like Paul is a must have.  Khem and 
Philip have expressed interest, do you want to be in the tiger team or 
review the output?