Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Neil Williams wrote: > Sidenote:: d-i.debian.org doesn't work as just the IP address, so the > locations cannot be given directly to tftp in u-boot as that needs a > serverip and a directory. This makes it harder to replicate what LAVA > is doing when testing by ha

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:03:44PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:22:04 +0100 Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 11:48 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Is there even any ARM platform out there with a optical drive on it? > > ISOs are not just about optical driv

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:55:41 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 08:57:15AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:29:39 -0700 > > Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 1

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:22:04 +0100 Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 11:48 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:32:46 +0100 > > Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 22:54 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > > > The big issue with testing installers

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-15 Thread Robert Nelson
>> >> Maybe mx53loco is not the iMX53 board you're referring to? > > [ slightly off-topic] > > fwiw, I fear "loco" name should not be used at all. One should rather > use imx53qsb or imx53qsb-r (for this one, the dts is imx53qsrb in the > kernel). They're basically the same board but with different

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 11:48 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:32:46 +0100 > Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 22:54 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > The big issue with testing installers on ARM is the variability in > > > bootloaders and device support. What

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-15 Thread Rtp
Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 08:57:15AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:29:39 -0700 >> Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> >> > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: >> > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:48:54 +0100 >> > > Neil Williams wro

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-14 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 08:57:15AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:29:39 -0700 > Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:48:54 +0100 > > > Neil Williams wrote: > > > ... and because some boar

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:29:39 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:48:54 +0100 > > Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:32:46 +0100 > > > Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > Why ISOs BTW? They don't s

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-13 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:48:54 +0100 > Neil Williams wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:32:46 +0100 > > Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Why ISOs BTW? They don't seem all that typical on ARM systems, > > > > As a route to the default pack

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:48:54 +0100 Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:32:46 +0100 > Ian Campbell wrote: > > Why ISOs BTW? They don't seem all that typical on ARM systems, > > As a route to the default packaged ARMMP kernel. ... and because some boards still don't tftp boot in a san

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:32:46 +0100 Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 22:54 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > The big issue with testing installers on ARM is the variability in > > bootloaders and device support. What LAVA can provide is a common > > base. A known working Linaro kernel/

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-13 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 22:54 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > The big issue with testing installers on ARM is the variability in > bootloaders and device support. What LAVA can provide is a common base. > A known working Linaro kernel/bootloader combination could get the > board to a known state and t

DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-12 Thread Neil Williams
I'm experimenting with ways to make ARM Debian installer images available for testing on real ARM hardware via the linux-image-armmp support and LAVA. I've done some basic testing with ARMMP on iMX.53 and I have a variety of other boards available at home for testing. (BeagleBoneBlack, arndale, iM