[OE-core] [poky] [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] Master image generation and testing

[Stanacar, StefanX]

Hi Paul,


On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 19:05 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On Monday 17 March 2014 17:42:13 Stefan Stanacar wrote:
> > This is what I currently use for doing automated deployment
> > for a genericx86-64 image. More details on the commit
> > messages. There is nothing particular to genericx86-64,
> > it should work on any EFI-enabled device with gummiboot as bootloader.
> > 
> > Changes since v2:
> >   - droped the kernel options patch, the required options are now in the
> > default config fragments. You still neeed to build with an updated SRCREV
> > though, as the kernel recipes haven't picked up the changes yet.
> > (SRCREV_meta_pn-linux-yocto = "${AUTOREV}" in local.conf)
> >   - impove a bit the master image recipe (inherit core-image and add to
> > IMAGE_INSTALL instead of overwriting IMAGE_INSTALL, that ensures we pick up
> > the correct modules, as core-image brings in packagegroup-base-extended)
> >   - tweaks and fixes for GenericEfi - I did a complete test run for a NUC
> > device connected to a web power strip. The powercontrol command is an
> > expect script that does ssh on a device which controls the power strip
> > (this is particular to a network setup that I can't control). It still
> > works for the no power command available case.
> > 
> > Also see YB#1596 and it's sub-bug #5614 for a bit of background.
> > Any comments, questions, most welcome.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Stefan
> > 
> > 
> > Please review the following changes for suitability for inclusion. If you
> > have any objections or suggestions for improvement, please respond to the
> > patches. If you agree with the changes, please provide your Acked-by.
> > 
> > The following changes since commit 92155fde2079251739f455bca599a52cd21ef12b:
> > 
> >   bitbake: runqueue: Don't error if we never setup workers (2014-03-17
> > 15:04:46 +0000)
> > 
> > are available in the git repository at:
> > 
> >   git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib stefans/masterimage
> >  
> > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=stefans/masterimag
> > e
> 
> Looks good. Some review comments:
> 
> * Is all of packagegroup-core-full-cmdline really needed for the master image 
> or just some specific utilities that it pulls in?
> 

No, just some specific utilities. I'm gonna change that to only those.

> * Could we have TEST_POWERCONTROL_EXTRA_ARGS so that TEST_POWERCONTROL_CMD can 
> be set generically for the user's setup and extra machine-specific arguments 
> (such as serial port numbers or other identifiers) can be set easily on a per-
> machine basis if needed?

Okay, will change that.

> 
> * I wonder if TEST_DEPLOY_CMDS should be lower-case since it would be most 
> easily defined as a function i.e. testimage_deploy_cmds() { ... } than a 
> traditional variable. (Reading it is exactly the same i.e. d.getVar().)
> 

I'd like to keep that configurable from .conf files. I did changed it be
splitted by \n.

> All of this seems generic enough that I think the better place for it would be 
> OE-Core rather than meta-yocto-bsp. If you could apply these changes on top of 
> OE-Core and send v3 to the OE-Core mailing list that would be great.
> 

Okay, great. I'll move everything from meta-yocto-bsp to meta and
re-send.

Cheers,
Stefan

> Thanks,
> Paul
>