On 5/23/23, Brennan Ashton <bash...@brennanashton.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2023, 5:05 AM Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 6:12 AM Brennan Ashton >> <bash...@brennanashton.com> wrote: >> > I have also asked in the past about cutting down on the amount of >> > configs >> > we have checked in to be something like >> > >> > board:nsh -- only nsh and somewhat small >> > board:jumbo -- nsh, plus as many features as can fit and are >> > interesting >> in >> > the platform. >> > >> > For sim and some other targets it would make sense to have more >> > targets, >> > but not for every board. >> >> >> The idea of "board:jumbo" is very similar to what I was saying >> earlier. Maybe it will allow us to test fewer boards in less time but >> still get better test coverage. I am in favor of *better* test >> coverage, not less test coverage!! >> >> In the past, we talked about having some tests in CI for each PR, and >> then a bigger nightly test that builds all boards/configs like Greg >> used to do before releases. I don't think that ever happened, but ASF >> has a build farm separate from GitHub that we might use, or we could >> request from INFRA a virtual machine to set up a complete environment. >> Maybe that's something to think about. >> > > > I'm not sure why we would need anything new? We can still run this in > GitHub actions, but generally I don't think we should be having PRs merge > that are not passing build tests. > > > As for more testing of system on boards, QEMU is great for some tests and > there is a thin framework that does some of that work that Xiang and others > have started. A few years ago I also gave a talk to see if there was > interest in working with the folks a renode.io. Their open source simulator > is what Zypher is using and at the time had minimal support, but check out > this awesome dashboard. > > https://zephyr-dashboard.renode.io/ > > > It would be really cool if we could join forces a bit and continue to build > off that effort and improve some of the emulation as needed (some work is > required). >
Some time ago I contacted Michael (from Antmicro, Renode. I CC he here) and he was very prone to help, but we didn't get a dashboard for NuttX yet. I totally agree with that idea, maybe we could create a page that will show up at nuttx-dashboard.renode.io this way they don't need to maintain it, since they already have much work with Zephyr. > Nothing will beat hardware, but as Xiang said let's start with the easy bit > which is software. > For sure! Let to start with QEMU/Renode and then will add real HW support. BR, Alan
