Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-27 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM Kevin Witteveen wrote: > (..) > === Affected systems === > > --- RP2040 --- > I experienced my first problems with the RP2040 recently. I am unable to > get it to work reliably on a clean NuttX install with standard > configurations. Sometimes the great test ‘ostest

Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread Kevin Witteveen
Hi Tomek, Ugh, so full automation is not really possible without that boot > button interaction? Didn't rPI consider UART control lines to drive > boot input just as ESP32 chips does so esptool can reset and switch to > bootrom on its own? :-) Oh, actually it is! PlatformIO has some tools that op

Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM Kevin Witteveen wrote: > Hi Tomek, > Thank you for your amazing response. Very detailed! > I am happy to hear that this issue is being taken seriously and that NuttX > is very aware of what is happening. Yes, this is especially important issue for SME and one-man-a

Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread Tomek CEDRO
There are several solutions here and problems :-) 1. We require now that person that provides the patch provides a proof it is working and does not break stuff on several targets. So the patches should be well tested by the author in the first place. 2. When breaking change is detected by anyone

Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread Kevin Witteveen
Hi Tomek, Thank you for your amazing response. Very detailed! I am happy to hear that this issue is being taken seriously and that NuttX is very aware of what is happening. --- My test farm idea --- NXDART sounds very interesting! I always wanted to see an automatic hardware test farm. I guess i

Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread vinicius may
Maybe we can create a basic sanity test for each new board and or new delivered feature, in order to prove the system instability before accepting the patch. The question is: how?! I mean, I have just a few boards but maybe everyone could help. I can help to run the tests at least with the boards I

Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread Tomek CEDRO
Hello Kevin! Thank you, that feedback is much appreciated! We all noticed quality / reliability / self-compatibility degradation in recent months, other users/developers reported that too, we are sorry for that, we are working to improve things! There are some steps we did to prevent that happeni