On Sun, 2020-11-01 at 21:38 +0100, Dan Čermák wrote: > Hi Adam and Peter, > > these are really great news! > > Do you guys also have plans to enable some bare metal tests for some > supported boards for aarch64? Hi, Dan. If by "enable" you mean "run in openQA", then the answer is "not immediately, no". We don't do any bare metal testing in openQA on any arches, and we're not set up for it at all. openQA has some capacities in that direction but it requires hardware with specific capabilities (and/or a lot of work writing a backend around the capabilities that are present and adapting tests to it). Basically, at minimum we need a reliable way to get console input into and out from the device (usually a serial console), and that just lets us test stuff that can be input over a console line; to do any of the graphical interactive testing, we ideally need some kind of management interface which supports VNC, since VNC is the most mature and capable openQA graphical/input backend. And then we need to acquire some of that hardware and either deploy it in the Fedora infra data center (which has space issues, apparently) or try and make it work from outside, which should theoretically be possible but again is something we have not done before. So: not right now. :) We *do* already do bare metal testing manually as part of release validation, quite a lot of it. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
