Hello, ---- On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:14:50 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote --- > Hi Martin, > > Em Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:53:42 +0300 > Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > > > Hi Martin, > > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 12:16:29PM +0000, Hecht, Martin (Avnet Silica) wrote: > > > Hey Hans and Mauro, > > > > > > I remember also on a very little point regarding hardware for testing. > > > But we didn't go in detail again during the summit. > > > > > > How do we can go ahead here? Are there some test systems up and > > > running somewhere centralized or how it is organized right now? > > > > Testing on real hardware is among our goals, but will require quite som > > extra work. We will likely need to setup lava labs and integrate them > > with media-ci. We had a discussion on Friday with kernel-ci developers, > > and we will probably benefit from ongoing work on their side. I don't > > think there's a plan to address this on our side in the very short term > > (mostly due to lack of time, we're currently focusing on getting > > media-ci up and running and integrated with the maintenance workflow). > > With regards to integrating Avnet Silica labs for doing CI tests on > media hardware with upstream kernels, this is something I always wanted. > > Yet, as Laurent mentioned, right now we're not doing it directly > (but I guess Collabora is doing it for some media drivers they're > developing). > > From the discussions I had during LPC and the ones I also had one year > ago at ELCE, it seems that the best way to do it is by using Kernel CI > to aggregate results from different test labs. > > The main idea is to use Kernel CI for such purpose. > > With such purpose, let's start a separate thread to discuss it together > with the Kernel CI community. > > So, I'm c/c Kernel CI public ML here and Gustavo Padovan that have been > involved on several efforts related to that. I had some hallway > discussions with him during LPC. > > It I recall correctly, we need to is: > > 1. To define a common test set (probably a subset of what we do > already for the virtual drivers); > 2. add hardware platforms to Kernel CI infrastructure; > 3. add some logic at Kernel CI to execute the tests at the hardware > that will be made available at the labs. That is correct. We can connect labs into the KernelCI infrastructure through a lab-runtime in maestro or if you have a CI system in place you can just listen to tests events generate by KernelCI, execute them and send the results into KCIDB for data aggregation as explained by Mauro. > > From our discussions during the Media Summit, my understanding is that > Avnet Silica can help us with that by providing some hardware platforms > that could be integrated at Kernel CI infra and test real drivers with > real hardware. If you have someone to spare, maybe you can also contribute > with (1) and (3). > > Anyway, this is just an introduction e-mail with what I captured so far > to start our discussions. I'd happy to have a video meeting to look at the details or attend one of the Media CI syncs. Best, - Gus
