On 20 June 2012 09:34, Andy Doan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/20/2012 12:01 AM, Fathi Boudra wrote: >> >> cc LAVA mailing list. >> >> On 20 June 2012 06:19, Zach Pfeffer wrote: >>> >>> Hey Andy, >>> >>> During our call with ARM (invite on the way), the fact that LAVA has a >>> network dependency came up again. >> >> >> Could you expand on the network dependency issue? >> Filing a bug is even better. >> >>> We also have an issue with Connectivity Manager testing. Is there >>> anything that can be done in >>> 12.07 (SD mux) to get over this? > > > I don't think the SD mux will be available or deployed in 12.07, so we have > to think about this another way. > > I think the "black box" idea we spoke about at Connect might be the path to > solve this. For those who weren't at the bar at midnight in Hong Kong: The > "black box" idea is a change to how LAVA would run tests. Instead of having > the LAVA dispatcher drive everything host side, we'd boot into a test image, > let it do stuff, pull files from a know partition, analyze and report > results.
Hehe... > If we were to do that, decisions like networking would be completely up to > you(the test image). This concept works best with an SD-mux set up. However, > it could work with our master images also. > > I still worry 12.07 might be a little ambitious for such a fundamental > change, but I think we should discuss. Yeah, that's cool - though I think to hit our benchmark variance numbers and to test things like Connectivity Manager we'll need this. It should help LAVA to because it'll take a failure point out of the system. Andy, what are you thinking are the big blockers for this with the master image approach? > -andy -- Zach Pfeffer Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog _______________________________________________ linaro-validation mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-validation
