Automating console_blast.sh

Automating console_blast.sh

[John B. Wyatt IV]

Hello John,

I am investigating if we can automate, and, possibly add console_blash.sh
[1] to our test suite here at Red Hat.

At Red Hat we use SSH to manage our test boxes. On an off-list email
you wrote that 'Only the UART should be used as a console'. I took
this as no ssh session should be used from the boot up until the crash,
but I should have confirmed this. Is this correct?

The license for our test suite is GPL v3 [2]. May we have your permission to
license it under that or permissive?

Adding Bruno @ CKI to CC. 

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rt-users/ZcQjxa4UA6hzXHnU@thinkpad2021/

[2] https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/tests/kernel/kernel-tests/-/tree/main/rt-tests

Sincerely
John Wyatt

Re: Automating console_blast.sh

[John Ogness]

On 2024-02-19, "John B. Wyatt IV" <jwyatt@redhat.com> wrote:
> I am investigating if we can automate, and, possibly add
> console_blash.sh [1] to our test suite here at Red Hat.

It is called "console_blast.sh". ;-)

> At Red Hat we use SSH to manage our test boxes. On an off-list email
> you wrote that 'Only the UART should be used as a console'. I took
> this as no ssh session should be used from the boot up until the
> crash, but I should have confirmed this. Is this correct?

SSH is fine. SSH sessions are not consoles. Consoles are specified with
the console= or netconsole= boot argument and receive the kernel
messages automatically from the kernel.

> The license for our test suite is GPL v3 [2]. May we have your
> permission to license it under that or permissive?

Yes, GPL v3 is OK.

> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rt-users/ZcQjxa4UA6hzXHnU@thinkpad2021/
>
> [2] https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/tests/kernel/kernel-tests/-/tree/main/rt-tests

John

Re: Automating console_blast.sh

[John B. Wyatt IV]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:57:23PM +0106, John Ogness wrote:
> 
> It is called "console_blast.sh". ;-)

:-)

> SSH is fine. SSH sessions are not consoles. Consoles are specified with
> the console= or netconsole= boot argument and receive the kernel
> messages automatically from the kernel.
>

Ack.

> > The license for our test suite is GPL v3 [2]. May we have your
> > permission to license it under that or permissive?
> 
> Yes, GPL v3 is OK.
> 

Thank you.

-- 
Sincerly,
John Wyatt
Software Engineer, Core Kernel