KernelCI joins the Linux Foundation

[Posted October 28, 2019 by corbet]

A long-anticipated move has finally been made official: the KernelCI continuous-integration project has found a new home under the Linux Foundation umbrella. "The primary goal of KernelCI is to use an open testing philosophy to improve the quality, stability and long-term maintenance of the Linux kernel. Expected improvements to the platform under the Linux Foundation include improved LTS kernel testing and validation; consolidation of existing testing initiatives; quality-of-life improvements to the current service; expanded compute resources; and increased pool of hardware to be tested. In the long-term, members expect to modernize the architecture; test software beyond the Linux kernel; and define testing standards and engage in cross-project collaboration."

KernelCI joins the Linux Foundation

Posted Oct 29, 2019 2:35 UTC (Tue) by gus3 (guest, #61103) [Link]

So is the Linux kernel improvement scale approaching the Euler constant?

^^^ the above question is deliberately provocative ^^^

KernelCI joins the Linux Foundation

Posted Oct 29, 2019 12:48 UTC (Tue) by johnjones (guest, #5462) [Link] (5 responses)

They could do with adding a raspberry pi version 4 at present they only have the 3 listed
also Qualcomm chipsets/boards are hardly represented at all yet are supported in the mainline...
for example I don't even see the Qualcomm 96Boards listed ?

KernelCI joins the Linux Foundation

Posted Oct 31, 2019 11:02 UTC (Thu) by zoobab (guest, #9945) [Link] (3 responses)

I donated a board years ago (a Pine64), KernelCI required TFTP booting, which is not possible with some SoCs, as some are not designed to have an ethernet interface.

I asked them to support SD card booting, which is fairly trivial to do, I guess they still don't support it.

KernelCI joins the Linux Foundation

Posted Nov 1, 2019 17:39 UTC (Fri) by khilman (subscriber, #37671) [Link] (2 responses)

The pine64 you donated has been active since you donated it: https://kernelci.org/boot/sun50i-a64-pine64-plus/

Thanks for the donation.

KernelCI joins the Linux Foundation

Posted Nov 7, 2019 10:27 UTC (Thu) by zoobab (guest, #9945) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah but the question is broader, we have hundreds of smartphones with their own SOC that does not have ethernet built-in.

I know u-boot can be configured to add an USB ethernet dongle with Asix, although this feature is super obscure and undocumented.

The big question is how to add more devices which are not ready for netbooting?

KernelCI joins the Linux Foundation

Posted Nov 11, 2019 15:35 UTC (Mon) by khilman (subscriber, #37671) [Link]

We already support devices that have no ethernet. Typically they depend on bootloader features like USB gadget mass storage, or custom scripts that can load images over USB.

KernelCI joins the Linux Foundation

Posted Nov 1, 2019 17:36 UTC (Fri) by khilman (subscriber, #37671) [Link]

Raspberry Pi 4 is has been ordered, but not added yet.
For Qualcomm boards, we have 13 listed: https://kernelci.org/soc/qcom/
The 96boards are there as well. The one based on the 410c is called apq8016-sbc