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The actual use of this extension is still in development and the log files are not currently publicly visible, but it may still be useful for people to know the what and why.
The Debian ARMMP kernel can be used for multiple devices, just changing the DTB. I've ...
more ...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
more ...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 ...
more ...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 ...
more ...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 ...
more ...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 ...
more ...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 ...
more ...lava-server has arrived in Debian unstable. No need for third party repositories (unless you want to), a simple apt install lava-server. What happens from that point isn't so simple. I've made the single instance installation as straightforward as I could but there is a lot more to do ...
more ...I've been building packages for LAVA on Debian unstable for several months now and I've been running LAVA jobs on the laptop and on devices in my home lab and on an ARMv7 arndale too.
Current LAVA installations ...
I've covered how I set up my home LAVA lab and how I got two iMX.53 boards running, the next step was to sort out the LAVA server.
My initial setup relied on using my Thinkpad as the server. This was somewhat convenient as ...