ARM Images and Testing

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 12.07.2012, 16:27 -0600 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> Hi Nick,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:59:32PM -0400, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> > Since Pete has kindly given me some pandaboards, I would like to
> > help get some more community testing going on ARM. I was speaking
> > with Stephane this this week also about the images availible for
> > ARM. What needs tested; what images are we producing, etc? I've been
> > testing out the installer image
> > today, but haven't yet messed with the preinstalled images. Are
> > these preinstalled images going away?
> 
> The only preinstalled images being built currently are for armhf+ac100 - for
> different hardware than the pandas.  So you wouldn't be able to test them.
> 
right, the ac100 images are totally device specific, you would need an
ac100 netbook to test these and it wouldnt be automatable easily.

> I believe we're keeping preinstall on ac100 because it makes sense there,
> while getting rid of it on all omap.  Cc:ing Oliver to confirm that this is
> the plan.  (Regardless, we are intending to only have one of preinstalled or
> live for each ARM hardware flavor.)
apart from ac100 all desktop images are now debian-installer based or
live images, identical to what we have for x86. for server we are
waiting for the switch to squashfs based d-i images on x86 to follow
suit here as well.

> 
> > I'd be happy to work more closely with whomever has been testing on
> > ARM up to this point. My end goal is to get a set of good testcases
> > written for the ARM images we're committed to producing and helping
> > get the community support behind running these tests. Before I can
> > do that, I need to understand where we stand completely and have a
> > run through things myself :-) Thanks,
hmm, i'm surprised to see that you are not on the list of the QA sprint
attendees end of the month, bringing up the automated ARM testing 
infrastructure in the datacenter is on the plan there, i think it would
be a good opportunity to also discuss plans for the community ARM testing 
at that sprint that we can then bring to a public discussion later.

the person who did all arm testing in the past sadly moved on and does 
not have much time for ubuntu anymore but he is still around on
IRC (GruemAster) in #ubuntu-arm on freenode in case you want to pick his
brain.

since we try to not differ from x86, all testcases apart from very
hardware specific bits (booting, kernel, bootloader installation,
hardware related bits like X server that require special drivers) the
testcases should be the same as on all other arches (the underlying
platform as well as LibreOffice, Unity or Firefox need to function the
same way here)

if you have any ARM related questions, dont hesitate to bug me ;)

ciao
	oli
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