Hi,

On 5 December 2012 06:39, Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm working on adding Galaxy Nexus support to LAVA using fastboot. This
> is work in progress, but I can already get a full boot test to run on
> the Nexus. :-)
>

That's great news.


> I noticed that the builds for all other devices are made with tarballs,
> and the LAVA jobs for them are also invoked passing tarballs.
>
> The Galaxy Nexus builds, on the other hand, are released as .img files.
>

That's because of the different ways needed to install bits. The tarballs
are useless for a Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7 or Nexus 10 because there's simply
no way to install them as the OS is booted from internal storage that can't
be accessed - so instead we have to send files that fastboot can handle.


> May I assume that the LAVA jobs you guys will be submitting for the
> Galaxy Nexus will also use .img files (so that I don't need to handle
> file format conversion etc)


Yes, that would be best.


> or is it useful for you to submitt tarballs
> and have them converted into .img by LAVA?


That would be rather useless because the tarballs wouldn't be what users
get - but if that makes things easier for you we can build them.

Converting them would basically be a matter of unpacking them and using
mkext4fs from the Android source tree to generate a filesystem image - but
it's probably easier to just stick with img files.

ttyl
bero
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