LWN: Comments on "KernelCI joins the Linux Foundation"

KernelCI joins the Linux Foundation

khilman — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:35:00 +0000

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

zoobab — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 10:27:48 +0000

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

khilman — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:39:11 +0000

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

Thanks for the donation.

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khilman — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:36:45 +0000

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

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zoobab — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:02:52 +0000

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.

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johnjones — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:48:56 +0000

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 ?

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gus3 — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:35:35 +0000

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

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