[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] kernel unit testing

[Guenter Roeck]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 01:24:25PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Trond Myklebust <trondmy at primarydata.com> writes:
> 
> > So, we might as well make this a formal proposal.
> >
> > I’d like to propose that we have a discussion around how to make it
> > easier to implement kernel unit tests. I’ve co-opted Dan as he has
> > expressed both an interest and hands-on experience. :-)
> 
> Count me in.
> 
> I'm working on the kernelci.org project, where we're testing
> mainline/next/stable-rc/stable etc. on real hardware (~200 unique boards
> across ~30 unique SoC families: arm, arm64, x86.)
> 
> Right now, we're mainly doing basic boot tests, but are starting to run
> kselftests on all these platforms as well.
> 

Augmenting that: For my part the interest would be to improve qemu based
testing along the same line (and maybe figure out if/how we can merge
kerneltests.org into kernelci.org).

Guenter