Re: [nightly] Core TISDK 2013.06 build 2013-07-21_01-01-44

From: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>
To: Christian Gagneraud <chgans@gna.org>
Cc: meta-arago@arago-project.org
Subject: Re: [nightly] Core TISDK 2013.06 build 2013-07-21_01-01-44
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:59:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130723235934.GF32068@edge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130723060244.GA31158@edge>

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:02:45AM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 04:43:54PM +1200, Christian Gagneraud wrote:
> > On 23/07/13 15:15, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > >Christian,
> > >
> > >On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:26:24PM +1200, Christian Gagneraud wrote:
> > >>Hi there,
> > >>
> > >>I have been looking at these test/build reports recently, is there a
> > >>more detail report available somewhere?
> > >
> > >Yes, but detailed reports are not yet published externally - it's on my
> > >"to do" list.
> > 
> > Good to hear, thanks! I have no strong needs for this, i was just
> > curious about the am335x-evm test failures.
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > >>As a user of a am335x-evm and a BeagleBoard Black, I would like to
> > >>know more about test failure for the EVM.
> > >
> > >There are some issues with the boot sequence of an automated test - looks
> > >like it's trying to load a wrong kernel image, I'll look into it later.
> > >Otherwise, the latest Dylan build works and boots fine for me on am335x-evm
> > >when loaded manually on SD card.

So, the issue with am335x-evm tests failining was identified as a bug in the 
test automation framework and our System Test engineers are working on the 
fix. For more details:

http://arago-project.org/pipermail/opentest/2013-July/002031.html

> > >>As well, I'm considering moving from Arago/Danny (kernel 3.2) to
> > >>Arago/Dylan (kernel 3.8?). I would like to know if there are any
> > >>plan to use Dylan for the next stable Arago.
> > >
> > >Actually, Arago/Danny has been using kernel 3.8 for quite some time now - we
> > >already had couple internal releases with it. You would need to specifically
> > >request AM-SDK branding to get 3.2 kernel, as the default is 3.8 in Danny and
> > >in Dylan. The only change Dylan brings is to update the underlying Yocto
> > >framework with all the user-space apps to the latest versions.
> > 
> > Yes, that's right, Arago/Danny already use kernel 3.8. My mistake!
> > To be more precise, my question was related to QA stuff. For now,
> > build and test automation are still done with Arago/Danny, any plan
> > to switch to or add Arago/Dylan config?
> 
> Yes, indeed - that's the next step. I still need to finish the devkit portion 
> of our SDK, but otherwise everything seems to be getting ready to switch the 
> nightly builds and tests to using Dylan.
> 
> 
> > On the side, any plan to add beaglebone and/or beaglebone-black to
> > the list of machines used by your continuous integration systems?
> 
> Starting with kernel 3.8, the only difference between AM335 EVM, EVM-SK and 
> Beaglebone is in the devtree. When we build for am335x-evm, we copy all the 
> DTBs, so the same images can be used on SK or Beaglebone. No need to build for 
> those separately!
> 
> From a run-time testing perspective, those are obviously different tests on 
> actual boards - I would need to check the board farm for proper setup. BTW, 
> current nightly tests are sent to our internal board farm, which is shared. I 
> am working on setting up my own personal board farm - I do have all the 
> boards, I just need to whip our automation software in shape, which is not an 
> easy task...
> 
> 
> > >>Also, do you think it is conceivable to hope for a working Qt5 with
> > >>TI OpenGL stuff?
> > >
> > >It's in the plans. Prabu was able to get it built after some massaging, but
> > >there are still few issues. Also, we would need to make sure the fallback
> > >mechanism works for legacy devices w/o GLES, since Qt5 requires it...
> > 
> > Interesting! What I found so far:
> >  - https://github.com/prabindh/qt-configs
> >  - http://e2e.ti.com/search/default.aspx#q=qt5&g=29&sc=forum
> >  - and of course https://github.com/meta-qt5/meta-qt5, which depends
> > on oe master :(
> > 
> > What I would like to achieve by the next months is to provide an
> > {arago|angstrom|poxy}-danny-qt5 SDK and custom rootfs to the dev
> > guys. Will see how it goes!
> 
> Let us know how it goes. And patches are welcome, as usual!
> 
> -- 
> Denys
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