[Hw-testing] CI instrumentation

[Tomeu Vizoso]

[adding hw-testing at lists.freedesktop.org to CC]

On 05/23/2018 10:54 PM, Lyude Paul wrote:
> Hi! Curious-has there been any updates on the status of chamelium 2?

Haven't got any myself, but we don't plan to do work on anything 
Chamelium related until we have IGT running on kernelci.org.

Maybe ask in chamelium-users?

Regards,

Tomeu

> On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 14:50 +0100, Benjamin Berg wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> On Fri, 2018-03-02 at 17:08 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
>>> I'm adding Hans and Richard here as they're prolly much better
>>> equiped to list the interfaces that we want.
>>
>> Adding Lyude as I believe she was looking into manufacturing
>> replacements for the Chameleon boards. I don't know what the situation
>> here is though.
>> As Hans has already mentioned the requirements would likely include DP-
>> MST.
>>
>> As said elsewhere in this thread, I don't think the current plan
>> outlined by Alexander is sufficient for DP testing except for low
>> resolutions though. (The plan was to use the Xilinx ZU2CG, which does
>> not seem to have I/O faster than 6GBit/s).
>>
>> Benjamin
>>
>>> I think the list that Tomeu gave is a good start. My toplevel goal is that
>>> the board should help drive a fully automated test cycle for most features
>>> of a modern laptop.
>>>
>>> I'll let Richard and Hans add suggestions as to the specific interfaces.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi Alberto,
>>>>
>>>> I actually ran into a company during Embedded World this week that's
>>>> interested in designing a board for this use case. My main pain point is
>>>> SD Card emulation, so it will have that. But there are interfaces on top
>>>> planned as well, such as HDMI, SPI, I2C, relays, etc. It will (according
>>>> to current plans) be based on a Zynq MPSoC, so anything you want to
>>>> emulate can be emulated as long as the wires match.
>>>>
>>>> Can you give me a quick list of interfaces you need to be able to drive
>>>> from this? I can pass them on to them then and we can see what we can
>>>> satisfy through on-board vs add-on interfaces.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> On 02.03.18 13:32, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
>>>>> Hey Tomeu,
>>>>>
>>>>> Last night I was thinking precisely about this problem. Yes we're very
>>>>> much interested in working with other distros and manufacturers in
>>>>> improving the toolset available.
>>>>>
>>>>> We do not have any concrete plans, but since this is a problem shared
>>>>> among so many I think there are opportunities to pool resources here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do we know anyone capable of designing such board and give us a quote
>>>>> for a ~200 run?
>>>>>
>>>>> One area where  I could help is talking to Linux oriented OEMs to pool
>>>>> resources (i.e. a budget to a first run of the board) namely S76,
>>>>> Slimbook, on the FOSS oriented realm but also Dell, HP and possibly
>>>>> Lenovo.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso
>>>>> <tomeu.vizoso at collabora.com <mailto:tomeu.vizoso at collabora.com>>
>>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>      Hi Alberto,
>>>>>
>>>>>      hope you are doing well, and are managing to get some sleep
>>>>
>>>> (Kat
>>>>>      gave me the news).
>>>>>
>>>>>      The other day Alexander Graf (on CC) explained to me his
>>>>
>>>> plans to
>>>>>      come up with a helper board that could be used for automated
>>>>
>>>> testing
>>>>>      in the CI labs of FOSS-oriented companies.
>>>>>
>>>>>      It would have HDMI and DP inputs as Chamelium does, but the
>>>>>      intention is for it to also be able to fake more devices: USB
>>>>>      keyboards and mice, bluetooth HIG, analog audio, WIFI, eth,
>>>>
>>>> SD, etc.
>>>>>      Of course, should be affordable and readily available.
>>>>>
>>>>>      As I remember that you and Ben were looking at what are your
>>>>
>>>> options
>>>>>      were in this regard some time ago, I thought it could be
>>>>
>>>> worth
>>>>>      putting you two in contact.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>>      Tomeu
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Alberto Ruiz
>>>>> Associate Engineering Manager - Desktop Hardware Enablement
>>>>> Red Hat
>>>
>>>
>>>