From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heiko Schocher Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 06:35:23 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] livetime of boards In-Reply-To: <20131107192657.659383811DF@gemini.denx.de> References: <5278ED18.3050105@denx.de> <20131105203736.GM5925@bill-the-cat> <20131106075049.57EB63814E8@gemini.denx.de> <527B4C80.1090704@denx.de> <527B5F54.4080501@gmail.com> <20131107133159.GR5925@bill-the-cat> <20131107192657.659383811DF@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <527C781B.6070705@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hello Wolfgang, Am 07.11.2013 20:26, schrieb Wolfgang Denk: > Dear Tom, > > In message<20131107133159.GR5925@bill-the-cat> you wrote: >> >> I feel this is the hard part of the problem, and what we're glossing >> over. What has to be tested by the board maintainer? What are we going >> to leave to their discretion? Will am335x_evm not count if I don't dig >> up the NOR cape for it? > > Good question. Eventually this is something that develops over time. Yes, let us go step by step. > Intially, we might be satisfied with a very basic "it works" message, > which may just mean that this specific version booted on the actual > hardware. > > In the long run, we might provide a more detailed questionaire to the > reported. I could for example imagine a tool that parses the board's > config file and then provides some checkboxes - if there is NOR flash > configured on the board, ask if NOR has been tested; similar for > network, MMC, USB, ... other features. Cool... and we can maybe start testscripts based on this information... (Huch... I am sure I am sitting in Front of my PC and not sleeping anymore) > One day we might even have more developers using automatic test tools > so we could generate information on a per-command base. > > I know that I'm just dreaming, but we should try to just be open for > any such future extensions, even if we start really small now. Maybe we add in tools a directory, where we add such tests? But this would be another big discussion... > I think we all agree that _any_ kind of test information will be > better than none. Yes. bye, Heiko -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany