On 15 May 2012, at 13:05, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote: > On 15 May 2012 12:54, Alexander Sack <a...@linaro.org> wrote: >> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Ramana Radhakrishnan >> <ramana.radhakrish...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> On 15 May 2012 12:38, Loïc Minier <loic.min...@linaro.org> wrote: >>>> On Mon, May 14, 2012, Zach Pfeffer wrote: >>>>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/104422661029399872488/posts/3KpdBSzW4FK >>>> >>>> awesome!! how expensive is it to build in the end? Will we build some >>>> for LAVA folks to play with? >>> >>> It sounds very nice and useful - but what is it and why is this so >>> exciting :) ? >>> >> >> I gave a bit background as a comment to my post: >> - https://plus.google.com/u/0/117775935412882278033/posts/8JTBhQSkUdS > > Thanks for the explanation - it would be nice if such a comment were > in the original post on linaro-dev rather than a one line comment with > no explanation anywhere for mere mortals :) > >> >> " >> Basically a gadget that allows you to use one sd card shared by two >> computers. >> >> Power off computer A and computer B will see the sdcard. Power on >> computer A and sd card will get unplugged from computer B; computer A >> can use it exclusively until it gets powered off again. > > (Assuming that computer B is powered off at the same time that > Computer A comes on) Interesting though I'm not sure where I'd use it > and how it would work if I had a running computer B and it was using > that device :
It's essentially being developed for LAVA so that we can test a complete image, including u-boot (or uefi or whatever) as well as the boot and rootfs alone. Thanks Dave
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