[Fuego] UART Alpha, Add New Test Suite to Fuego Dashboard

[dhinakar k]

Hi Tim,

Thanks a lot for your detailed reply.
Please find my comments inline.

Regards,
Dhinakar

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Bird, Timothy <Tim.Bird at sony.com> wrote:

> See answers inline below.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dhinakar k on Friday, March 31, 2017 1:46 AM
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > UART Alpha Version
> > ************************
> > I have to demo Fuego to my management on one of our target board.
> > The target board has only UART Connectivity. I have two weeks to
> > setup target (along with cross compiler, config files etc.) and demo
> > the LTP test suite execution on it. LTP is already in the Pre-packed
> test list.
> > Should I be porting it again to my target to make it work?
> No.  What you do it add your toolchain to Fuego, and Fuego will build
> LTP for your target.  You can find instructions for adding a toolchain at:
> http://bird.org/fuego/Adding_a_toolchain
>
>
Thanks, I have already checked this link, will relook at it again with my
current objective.


> Can you say where you are getting your toolchain from, and what kind it is?
> (e.g. from Linaro, from your SoC vendor, from Debian packages, or building
> it yourself with
> crosstool or Yocto Project or Buildroot?)
>
>
gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.8-2014.01_linux is the toolchain that I am
currently using
It is a debian package (buildroot).



> >How big an effort  will it be?
> If you were not using serial, it should be trivial.  However, one
> outstanding
> issue with the serial support is that it is not fast at transferring data.
> Our configuration of LTP requires transferring about 450mg of data, which
> takes too long over a serial port.  We have some sub-test configurations
> for LTP, that require less space.  I haven't measured them to see how much
> space they need on the target board.
>
> LTP can be refactored to have a smaller footprint, but this would require
> some work.
>
> In your case, I would be interested to hear how the device filesystem is
> populated
> now, and what size you have available for testing.  We might be able to
> customize
> a test spec to use a subset of LTP that would work for your device.
>
>
I want to use serial only for issuing command and getting status/logs.
The RFS is currently on an SD card where the cross compiled LTP has been
kept.
I would like to use the full LTP suite as well as LTP-DDT.



> > Also can I get the alpha version of UART so that I can use it for this
> demo?
>  Yes.  Everything needed for using the serial port as a transport option
> is included in my 'next' branch (and will be in the upcoming 1.1 release).
> I hope to release 1.1-rc1 today or Monday.  Serial support will be
> included in
> that release.
>
>
Thanks please give me the link whenever it is available and also any
instructions on how to update my current Fuego


> > Adding a new test suite
> > ***************************
> > 1. Is there any plan to add LTP-DDT test suite into Fuego container?
> There were no prior plans to do this, but it looks like an interesting
> suite to add.
> Since we have LTP, and LTP-DDT is a derivative, it should be relatively
> easy to
> add the individual tests from LTP.
>
> > 2. If I want to add my own test suite or test to Fuego dashboard, what
> is the
> > process?
> Please see this page:
> http://bird.org/fuego/Adding_a_test
>
>
Thanks I will check the above link. Can you also point me to the link
which helps me to run Fuego on port other than 8080?


> > 3. Is the dashboard customizable?
> Yes.  The Jenkins dashboard is extremely customizable, and there are
> numerous
> view options and plugins to configure how you want the dashboard to look.
> JTA and Fuego 1.0 used a lot of these plugins to create a specific look.
> Fuego 1.1 leaves this more as an exercise for the user, since each site
> may want
> their own Jenkins interface customizations.  We try to require a minimal
> set
> of Jenkins plugins for Fuego core functionality.  Then, individual users
> and sites
> can choose which of the Jenkins plugins to use for the dashboard look they
> want.
>
>
Thank is there any tips available already on customizing dashboard?

>
> > Please let me know.
>
> There would be some work involved to make existing LTP work over the serial
> port for your board.  But it should not be too difficult. More critical is
> how your
> distribution of Linux is configured to initialize.  Does your board come
> up to a login
> prompt, or directly into a shell prompt?
>

The board when booted will come up the buildroot login prompt and when
logged into will go into a shell prompt.
I hope I am clear with my requirements about LTP. Please let me know if you
have any further questions.

>
> Let me know the answers to my questions, and we can work from there.
>
> Regards,
>  -- Tim
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/fuego/attachments/20170403/6e54b28c/attachment.html>