I keep being asked about automated bootloader testing and the phrase which crops up is “SD mux” – hardware to multiplex SD card access (typically microSD). Each time, the questioner comes up with a simple solution which can be built over a weekend, so I’ve decided to write out the …

In my previous post, I covered how to extend an initramfs to serve as a basis for tests and other purposes. In that example, the initramfs was simply copied off a device after installation. It occurred to me that python-guestfs would be a useful tool to make this step easier …

Whilst the rest of Debian was very busy actually making the Jessie release, I was trying to prepare the ground to test the armhf installer images.

Cubietruck is fine, it's a nice install and the documentation on the wiki works nicely. I tried to automate it (as it would be …

The Debian ARMMP kernel can be used for multiple devices, just changing the DTB. I've already …

After the OpenTAC session at Linaro Connect, we do now have a mailing list to support any and all discussions related to OpenTAC. Thanks to Daniel Silverstone for the list.

List archive: http://listmaster.pepperfish.net/pipermail/opentac-vero-apparatus.com

More information on OpenTAC: http://wiki.vero-apparatus.com/OpenTAC

A bit of news on the development of OpenTAC - the Open Hardware Test Automation Controller. I've talked about this at the MiniDebConf 2014 in Cambridge. (Video available). The development is being tracked on the Vero-Apparatus wiki and as this is Open Hardware, the files are attached to the wiki (All …

There's a lot of discussion / moaning /arguing at this time, so I thought I'd post something about how LAVA got into Debian Jessie, the work involved and the lessons I've learnt. Hopefully, it will help someone avoid the disappointment of having their package missing the migration into a future stable …

I've previously covered running LAVA on ARM devices, now that the packages are in Debian. I've also covered setting up the home lab, including the difficulty in obtaining the PDU and relying on another machine to provide USB serial converters with inherent problems of needing power to keep the same …

After patches from Petter, add foreign architecture support and picking up some scripting from freedombox, I've just built a Debian unstable image using the ARMMP kernel on Beaglebone-black.

A few changes to vmdebootstrap will need to go into the next version (0.3), including an example customise script to setup …

I've done various bits with ARMMP and LAVA on this blog already, usually waiting until I've got all the issues ironed out before writing it up. However, this time I'm just going to do a dump of where it's at, how it works and what can be done.

I'm aware …