[coreboot] More lists

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 22:38:01 CET 2010


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:47:21AM -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> > > Could we have some tag to svn commit like:
> >
> > > And then add:
> > >
> > > current->works
> > And also the "haha this is broken" tag and maybe the "will fry your
> > mainboard" tag. :)
> >
> > One problem is that commits that are board-specific hopefully result in a
> > working board.  The problem is that they break other boards that weren't
> > tested (or other payloads on the same board).  I don't think there's a
> way
> > around that basic problem.
>
> Boot testing would.
>

> The automatic testing framework Stepan built a few years ago - I'd love to
> get a few boards set up for that. I have some boards lying around that
> could
> be used for that. My main problem is cost: dedicating an artec dongle +
> plcc
> adapter runs about $350 per board... And then you still need a remote power
> toggle device (can be had for cheap-ish if you look around a bit) and some
> sort of serial capture device (or just another computer if it's one or a
> few
> boards).
>
Your S2881 could host a framework for qemu, AMD serengeti, and AMD
serengeti_fam10.

Having the three simulators working would be a start.  I have no idea how
hard it is to hook a simulator into the framework.

Thanks,
Myles
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