On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiew...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hi > > LAVA is good for doing some tests but every time I use it I wonder why > it is so slow. So I looked more at problem. > > Job which I started is going on pandaboard for 48 minutes already. So > far it did nothing related with tests which I want to run. Instead if > fetched some image, booted and started installing lot of Python packages... > > This got me to idea - why not make *-lava variants of images which would > have all packages needed by LAVA infrastructure preinstalled? It would > take some minutes of Jenkins but less then LAVA one probably. Especially > when bigger set of jobs is to be run. > FWIW, we had considered to do something similar to make big.LITTLE testing more convenient. So, I guess this is indeed a worthwhile idea to explore.
Assuming we want to do this, would we really make a -lava variant? Why not include the tests in the LEB directly? Android already ships the tests in the image, so it wouldn't be something entirely new. -- Alexander Sack Technical Director, Linaro Platform Teams http://www.linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
