[coreboot] Interested in offering motherboards for autotest

[Jeremy Banks]

Hello again,

I sent my message below at the end of December, but never heard anything
back. I realize that the end of December was bad timing; many people were
likely to be away for year-end holidays. Thus, I am following up.

The boards I have, in rough order of ascending age, are:
* MSI MS-7548 v1 (Compaq Aspen GL8E)
* MSI MS-7310 v1 / K9N4 Ultra-F
* Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe
* Supermicro PDSME+ v1.1
* Jetway VM2DMP v2
* MSI MS-6119 v1.1 BX2
(There's a couple others in storage I can dig out if there's interest, an
Asus A8N or A8V, and something more recent, IIRC)

I realize that some of these are rather old, but there are similarly old
motherboards listed in the supported motherboards list on the wiki[1], so I
hope I'm not offering obsolete junk that Coreboot has no interest in, or
has decided not to support any more.

1. https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards


On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Jeremy Banks <korethr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have some older motherboards I'd like to offer as QA targets for
> autotest as described in the Testing section of Development Guidelines on
> the wiki.[1] They are older boards, ranging from Slot 1 to Socket AM3.
> Would the coreboot team have any interest in these, or are they too
> obsolete to serve as QA targets?
>
> Assuming there is interest, what is required for an autotest setup? The
> wiki says "a permanent connection to the net, a host system and some
> special circuitry," are required. How permanent of a connection is
> required? Is something like a cable or DSL line in the US sufficient, or is
> something closer to leased space at a datacenter facility needed?
>
> Are there any particular requirements of a host system that necessitate a
> particularly powerful system, or would a small single-board system like a
> Raspberry Pi suffice?
>
> Regarding the special circuitry: I assume this includes equipment for
> flashing the ROM chip on the motherboard under test, a means of controlling
> at least the motherboard's power switch and reset line, and something to
> monitor output from the board so to verify it did boot successfully (serial
> port?). Is this roughly accurate? Are there other bits of the special
> circuitry that I am missing, or specific brands/models of tools required to
> implement the special circuitry?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy Banks
>
>
> 1. https://www.coreboot.org/Development_Guidelines#Testing
>
>
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