On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:48:12AM -0400, Silbermann, Martine wrote: > * Progress report on automation of the testing process > Bryce is still trying to determine how to automate on ppc64 falling back > on a well known good kernel if the default kernel doesn't boot. Joel > suggested that the script might need to be done in an interactive way. The last couple of days I've been doing some additional research. * I've reviewed 8 different ppc64 manuals; no mention of how to do this automatically. * I read through the yaboot/ybin source code; there are no functions which will permit this behavior. * There are efforts actively under way to create a new version of grub, which will run on ppc64. Since grub has the functionality needed, this may be a good solution, however the code is only experimental at this stage. * It might be possible to create an expect script to operate the yaboot prompts through the console on the HMC. This is a pretty hacky solution and I don't know expect scripting very well but looks like the best option at this point. > * Other topics: > Mary expressed concerns for the limited amount of resources that we have > to address the memory regression testing. Bryce is only on the project > on a part time basis and there is currently no intern to help along. In > order to help us prioritize the work Joel share the following info. Yes, technically I was assigned to work this only about 10-20% of my time, but this past summer I found it took closer to 50% of my time. Also, some good news / bad news. The good news is that the NFS testing I've been doing has been effective enough that NetApp has increased their funding to OSDL for NFS testing. The bad news is that this is going to stretch me pretty thin; I'm not sure if I'll be able to provide as much help for the hotplug memory testing as for the cpu hotplug. Bryce
