Thanks Dave. Subsequently i stumbled on the lava documentation about 'Deploy using Linaro media create'
http://lava-dispatcher.readthedocs.org/en/latest/jobfile-lmc.html Dean is trying out some steps at our end. Thanks Basil Eljuse... -----Original Message----- From: Dave Pigott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 28 March 2013 16:20 To: Basil Eljuse Cc: Antonio Terceiro; Linaro Validation; Dean Arnold Subject: Re: [Linaro-validation] Help in understanding how to generate Ubuntu images for LAVA from locally built kernel artefacts... On 28 Mar 2013, at 14:05, Basil Eljuse <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Antonio, > > For android config what we do is: > Fetch the latest Linaro tar balls from > http://snapshots.linaro.org/android/~linaro-android/vexpress-linaro-mp/lastSuccessful > and replace the kernel artefacts in the boot.tar > > For Ubuntu I can see the following from snapshots area > http://snapshots.linaro.org/quantal/hwpacks/vexpress/latest > > With my limited understanding on debian packages, Could you explain what > exactly need to be replaced? I see lots of .deb package files listed there. > > Also in terms of filesystem does the below one would be the right one for us > to pick? > http://snapshots.linaro.org/quantal/images/nano-lava/latest > > Looking at the LAVA documentation > http://lava-dispatcher.readthedocs.org/en/latest/jobfile-prebuilt.html > > It mentions about a single image to be referenced via json file. > > How do i arrive at such an image from the hwpack + nano-lava fs? Hi Basil, You use linaro-media-create from lava-image-tools to create the single image. Thanks Dave > > Thanks > Basil Eljuse... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Antonio Terceiro [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 28 March 2013 13:32 > To: Basil Eljuse > Cc: Linaro Validation; Dean Arnold > Subject: Re: [Linaro-validation] Help in understanding how to generate Ubuntu > images for LAVA from locally built kernel artefacts... > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:20:13AM +0000, Basil Eljuse wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We wanted to have the ability to run tests in local LAVA setup on the Ubuntu >> config. >> >> Provided we have kernel.bin and dtb generated by a job locally, could >> someone please provide us with the details on >> >> How this can be packaged and made into the ubuntu image which can be >> launched in LAVA? >> >> Any pointers is welcome. > > I think that the easiest way would be to create a modified hardware pack > with your kernel and DTB, and let LAVA handle it like it already handles > the regular Linaro hardware packs. > > -- > Antonio Terceiro > Software Engineer - Linaro > http://www.linaro.org > > -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are > confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the > contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the > information in any medium. Thank you. > > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-validation mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-validation -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. _______________________________________________ linaro-validation mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-validation
