22.06.2019 22:12, Heinrich Schuchardt пишет: > On 6/22/19 8:15 PM, Simon Glass wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 at 16:10, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Simon, >>> >>> Am 22.06.19 um 16:55 schrieb Simon Glass: >>>> I'd like to better understand the benefits of the 3-month timeline. >>> >>> It takes time to learn about a release, package and build it, test it on >>> various hardware, investigate and report errors, wait for feedback and >>> fixes, rinse and repeat with the next -rc. Many people don't do this as >>> their main job. >>> >>> If we shorten the release cycle, newer boards will get out faster (which >>> is good) but the overall quality of boards not actively worked on >>> (because they were working good enough before) will decay, which is bad. >>> The only way to counteract that would be to automatically test on real >>> hardware rather than just building, and doing that for all these masses >>> of boards seems unrealistic. >> >> Here I think you are talking about distributions. But why not just >> take every second release? >> >> I have certain had the experience of getting a board our of the >> cupboard and finding that the latest U-Boot doesn't work, nor the one >> before, nor the three before that. >> >> Are we actually seeing an improvement in regressions? I feel that >> testing is the only way to get that. >> >> Perhaps we should select a small subset of boards which do get tested, >> and actually have custodians build/test on those for every rc? > > What I have been doing before all my recent pull requests is to boot > both an arm32 (Orange Pi) and and an aarch64 (Pine A64 LTS) board via > bootefi and GRUB. To make this easier I am using a Raspberry with a > relay board and a Tizen SD-Wire card (https://wiki.tizen.org/SDWire) > controlling the system under test, > cf https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5ugi3iX4AAh1bn.jpg:large > What would be needed is scripts to automate the testing including all > the Python tests.
Is it possible to buy SDwire somewhere? > > It would make sense to have such test automation for all of our > architectures similar to what Kernel CI (https://kernelci.org/) does. > > Regards > > Heinrich > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot@lists.denx.de > https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
