ARM Images and Testing

[Nicholas Skaggs]

On 07/13/2012 05:39 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 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.

Oli, I'm not sure when/where your sprint is by I'd like to be able to 
attend the ARM discussions if possible. Will it be a virtual sprint?
>
> 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 ;)
Sure, so I've booted and played around with the images, etc. I'm curious 
on the installation -- what's the recommendation for "installing"? To 
what disk?

>
> ciao
> 	oli