On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:43:12AM +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> Kevin Hilman <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Michael Hudson-Doyle <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >> Kevin Hilman <[email protected]> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hi LAVA folks,
> >>>
> >>> I'm working on using LAVA to boot boards in my own board farm, and for
> >>> starters, am trying to use a job without a 'deploy' step (so I can use
> >>> the existing on-board u-boot, and control it via boot_cmds.)
> >>>
> >>> Currently, the dispatcher assumes that a 'deploy' step has happened
> >>> before a 'boot_linaro_image' step, which is not needed for my case, so
> >>> here's a patch to set some defaults so a deploy step is not needed:
> >>
> >> FWIW, there is a dummy_deploy action for this use case:
> >>
> >>   "actions": [
> >>     {
> >>         "command": "dummy_deploy",
> >>         "parameters": {
> >>                 "type": "ubuntu"
> >>          }
> >>     },
> >>     {
> >>         "command": "boot_linaro_image"
> >>     }
> >>   ]
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the pointer, but this doesn't work either. 
> >   
> > While dummy_deploy may be dumb, it's not dumb enough.  It still wants to
> > (re)boot into a master image (which I don't wan't.)
> 
> Ah right.  I don't really see any reason for that, sounds like something
> that should be fixed!

Agreed.

*But* if the setup does not use a master image, the `master` device type
should be the coice, since it was entirely designed with the assumption
that there *is* a master image.

We should probably write a new device type for this use case.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro
Software Engineer - Linaro
http://www.linaro.org

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