B@D: marketing related content

This is the page where the CIP Testing team create the marketing contents the will be used by the Linux Foundation marketing team to promote the release of Board At Desk.

In order to know more about the current release please check the CIP Board At Desk landing page.

• RD (release day): Wednesday Oct 18th
• RT (Release Time): 12:00 UTC

• Hashtag to be used: #ciptesting #linuxfoundation #linux #lava #kernelci #lfelc
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• Hashtag to be used: #ciptesting #linuxfoundation #linux #lava #kernelci #lfelc

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  • LKML
  • Linux Users
  • FOSS professionals
  • FLOSS professionals
  • Linux Foundation

The Civil Infrastructure Platform project[1], a Linux Foundation Initiative, has as main goal to create and maintain a minimal system targeting industrial grade solutions. In order to improve overtime the quality and stability of such base system, testing became one of CIP key activities since the very beginning. The CIP Testing Project will release later today the 1.0 version of a testing environment called Board At Desk (B@D), based on technologies developed by the popular kernelci.org project, supported by Linaro. B@D allows any kernel developer to connect a board to her development machine and test a kernel locally on it, without any centralised service involved. It also allows to easily visualise and share results and logs.

This coming release of B@D is just a small but relevant example of CIP Members interest is high quality and trustable software.

CIP Members are by: Siemens, Hitachi, Toshiba, Renesas, Plat'Home and Codethink

[1] https://www.cip-project.org/

The Civil Infrastructure Platform project[1], a Linux Foundation Initiative, is happy to announce the publication of a new version of Board At Desk - Single Dev. v1.0, a customised and easy to deploy instance of the kernelci.org project that should allow developers to test Linux kernels on boards connected to their own development machines and share the results and logs without requiring any centrally managed third party service.

For further information about the new features as well as how to deploy, configure and use this new version of the B@D testing environment please read the B@D v1.0 release announcement[2].

[1] https://www.cip-project.org/ [2] http://bit.ly/2ysAuKG

A new version of the Civil Infrastructure Platform testing environment has been released this week[1]. During the Embedded Linux Conference Europe[2], that will take place in Prague, CZ, next week, those interested in learning more about how to deploy, configure and use this environment locally to test kernels in your own board are welcome to join the Board At Desk 101 training session[3]. If you want to know more about the CIP Testing project, the CIP kernel maintenance activities or any other CIP actions and plans, there are several other activities during ELCE you might be interested on[4].

[1] http://bit.ly/2ysAuKG [2] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe [3] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipconferences/cipwselce2017#b-d-101how-to-test-the-cip-kernel-using-b-d [4] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipconferences/cipwselce2017

The Civil Infrastructure Platform project[1], a Linux Foundation Initiative, is happy to announce the publication of a new version of Board At Desk v1.0, a customised and easy to deploy instance of the kernelci.org[2] and LAVA[3] projects that should allow developers to test Linux kernels on boards connected to their own development machines using the tooling provided by one of the most successful Open Source testing projects.

Board at Desk (B@D) v1.0 is provided in two forms:

• As a vagrant VM image/recipe.
• As a VM image, widely called a Vagrant box.

Please visit the CIP Testing project Download page[4] to download the latest Board At Desk (B@D v1.0) box.

With this effort, the CIP project is moving towards a “shared and trusted testing” targetting not just those directly involved in maintaining the CIP kernel but any kernel developer that has physical access to a board, reducing the deployment, configuration and maintenance costs. B@D introduces a “local” approach to kernelci.org which is a distributed service centrally managed. In addition, CIP intends to increase the number of developers and organizations willing to participate in kernelci.org by providing a simple mechanism to evaluate the technologies developed by that community (LAVA and kernelci) which CIP considers upstream.

Some of the most important new features shipped with this B@D release are:

• LAVA has been updated to 2017.7 version.
• B@D now works on Windows 10 systems.
• B@D now works behind a webproxy.
• initramfs is now built locally increasing reliability.

The LAVA community releases a new LAVA version every month. CIP testing team have updated Board at Desk LAVA version to 2017.7, released this past July. It comes with many new features, enhancements and bug fixes that allow the CIP testing project to introduce more verbose reports, prevents issues related with partitions being filled with system logs, etc.

The previous version only supported Linux based systems as host OS. This new version of B@D also supports Windows 10 expanding the potential targets to those engineers who use this proprietary operating system in their development machines.

Many organizations works behind a webproxy. B@D needed to give an answer to this use case, popular among CIP Members. Thanks to some contributions from Daniel Sangorrin, a Toshiba developer, Board at Desk now works behind a webproxy.

Previously Board At Desk was using the initiramfs provided by Linaro in their infrastructure. This created in B@D a dependency on the network connection latency that, under certain circumstances led to errors due to timeouts. Now initramfs is built locally which improves the speed of the tests, removing that need to access to internet.

In addition to the above, other features has been added and several bugs has been fixed, making Board at Desk more robust and reliable than before. Further information about this new Board At Desk (B@D v1.0) release can be found at the B@D Feature Page[5].

If you are interested in testing kernels using Board at Desk, meet the developers at the cip-dev mailing list[6]. If you find bugs in KernelCI or LAVAv2 themselves, please report them upstream. If you find them in the configuration or any of the previously described topics, please report them in the CIP-testing bug tracker[7]. More general information about the CIP testing project can be found in the CIP wiki[8].

[1] https://www.cip-project.org/ [2] https://kernelci.org/ [3] https://validation.linaro.org/ [4] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipdownload [5] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptestingboardatdesksingledevfeaturepage [6] https://lists.cip-project.org/mailman/listinfo/cip-dev [7] https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/boards [8] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptesting

The Civil Infrastructure Platform project[1], a Linux Foundation Initiative, is happy to announce the publication of a new version of Board At Desk v1.0, a customised and easy to deploy instance of the kernelci.org[2] and LAVA[3] projects that should allow developers to test Linux kernels on boards connected to their own development machines using the tooling provided by one of the most successful Open Source testing projects.

Board at Desk (B@D) v1.0 is provided in two forms:

• As a vagrant VM image/recipe.
• As a VM image, widely called a “B@D box”.

Please visit the CIP Testing project Download page[4] to download the latest Board At Desk (B@D v1.0).

Some of the most important new features shipped[5] with this B@D v1.0 are:

• LAVA has been updated to 2017.7 version which will allow in the future significant improvements in the reporting area, among others.
• B@D now works on Windows 10 as Host OS which increases the number of potential users, including engineers from several CIP Members..
• B@D now works behind a webproxy which is a common use case among CIP Members.
• initramfs is now built locally increasing reliability and opening the door to use B@D in the future to test the CIP core system, not just the CIP Kernel.

In addition to the above, other features has been added and several bugs has been fixed, making Board at Desk more robust and reliable than before. Further information about this new Board At Desk (B@D v1.0) version can be found at the B@D Feature Page[5].

With this release, the CIP Testing Project covers a key milestone which is releasing a working testing tool to be used locally by kernel developers from any CIP Member. In the current strategy, the following key milestone refers to setting up the conditions and technical measures that would allow all those developers to share and analyse the test results at any point in time within a fully distributed environment. This version of B@D includes some initial steps towards achiving that goal.

Find more information about B@D v1.0 reading the web release announcement: https://www.cip-project.org/blog/2017/10/18/cip-launches-bd-v1-0

If you are interested in testing kernels using Board at Desk, meet the developers at the cip-dev mailing list[6]. If you find bugs in KernelCI or LAVAv2 themselves, please report them upstream. If you find them in the configuration or any of the previously described features, please report them in the CIP-testing bug tracker[7]. More general information about the CIP testing project can be found in the CIP wiki[8].

[1] https://www.cip-project.org/ [2] https://kernelci.org/ [3] https://validation.linaro.org/ [4] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipdownload [5] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptestingboardatdesksingledevfeaturepage [6] https://lists.cip-project.org/mailman/listinfo/cip-dev [7] https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/boards [8] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptesting

Content for the slides of the CIP talk at ELCE proposed, related with CIP Testing project and kernel maintenance.

Slide 1:

CIP Kernel maintenance (https://gitlab.com/cip-project/linux-cip)

* Ben Hutchings is the CIP Kernel maintainer up to Aug. 2018. * CIP kernel v4.4.92-cip11 released on Oct 18th: 4.4 LTS. Regressions and security fixes that land in LTS. Specific industrial grade hardware support. * Talk about CIP kernel at ELCE Tue Oct 24th at 16:55 Congress Hall II Slide 2: CIP Testing project (https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptesting) * CIP testing environment (B@D v1.0) just released (https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptestingboardatdesksingledevfeaturepage) Based on kernelci.org Linux and Windows 10 as Host OS supported. Shipped as a VM and Vagrant based environment. Results and logs sharing capabilities. * B@D designed to: Test Linux kernels and base systems. Locally: no need of a centrally managed service. On hardware connected to your dev machine.

If you want to know more about this release please check the CIP Testing Project releases wiki page.

Main messages:

• B@D reduce the deployment, configuration and maintenance effort to those who want to test kernels.
• KernelCI and LAVA are upstream.
• B@D is an effort towards shared and trusted testing.

Remember that:

• RD is Release Day: May 30th
• RT is Release time: 17:00 EDT / 22:00 UTC / 23:00 UK / 00:00 CEST (May 31st) / 07:00 JST (May 31st) This is due to the fact that the release will take place during the opening of the Open Source Summit Japan.

Links to be included:

• Release announcement
  • Shorten link: http://bit.ly/2rhSILs
  • Link: https://www.cip-project.org/blog/2017/05/30/bd-v0-9-1
• B@D Download page: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipdownload download the latest release, including meta-data, source code and artefacts
• CIP testing Landing page: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptesting CIP testing home page
• Participate in CIP project: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/start#participate-in-cip

• Hashtag to be used: #ciptesting #linuxfoundation #linux #lava #kernelci #ossummit
• Remember to use a shorten URL service to be able to include more characters.

http://bit.ly/2mZMHmx #ciptesting #linux #linuxfoundation | – |

• Hashtag to be used: #ciptesting #linuxfoundation #linux #lava #kernelci #ossummit

• Groups we can publish the announcement in:
  • LKML
  • Linux Users
  • FOSS professionals
  • FLOSS professionals
  • Linux Foundation
  • Any specific related with civil infrastructure?

Subject: CIP Project releases a tool-box based on LAVA and KernelCI to test Linux kernels locally: Board At Desk v0.9.1

The Civil Infrastructure Platform project[1], a Linux Foundation Initiative, is happy to announce the publication of Board At Desk - Single Dev. (B@D) v0.9.1, a customised and easy to deploy instance of KernelCI[2] and LAVA[3] projects that should allow developers to test Linux kernels on boards connected to their own development machines, using the tooling provided by one of the most successful Open Source and distributed testing projects, http://www.kernelci.org .

This instance is provided in this first release in two forms: * As a vagrant VM image/recipe. * As a VM image, widely called box.

Please visit the CIP Testing project Download page[4] to download the first release of Board At Desk - Single Dev. (B@D v0.9.1).

With this effort, the CIP project is trying to create a first step towards “shared and trusted testing” by every member and the CIP kernel maintainer. It also has as a goal to extend and simplify the current use case satisfied by kernelci.org, focusing on those embedded developers that have direct access to boards, by reducing the deployment, configuration and maintenance effort. Finally, CIP intends to increase the number of developers and organizations willing to participate in http://www.kernelci.org by providing a simple mechanism to evaluate the technologies involved in what CIP consider B@D's upstream projects (LAVA and KernelCI).

Some of the most important actions taken by the team behind B@D have been focused in two areas:

1. Merged the KernelCI and LAVAv2 Virtual Machines together into one.

KernelCI was based on Ubuntu v14.04, it used Nginx as the Web Server and SimpleHTTPServer for the Storage Server which is where the builds are stored. LAVA was based on Debian and used the Apache Web Server and the Django Content Management System for the Frontend Web Framework. Both web servers wanted to use port 80.

The current VM uses Debian Jessie only. It runs KernelCI on Nginx and LAVA on Apache on reassigned ports. The KernelCI Storage Server has been migrated over to use Nginx on a reassigned port.

2. Connection to the board.

The released VM assumes the usage of an FTDI USB-to-Serial cable to connect the host machine to the Beaglebone Black. It uses ser2net to route the /dev/ttyUSB0 serial port to a TCP port on the host machine which allows the user to use telnet to communicate to the Beaglebone Black console for remote login and boot messages. It also allows LAVA to use tftp to transfer the kernel directly over to the board eMMC without needing to burn an SD Card.

This B@D version supports Beaglebone Black. Renesas RZ/G1M support is in progress and the rest of the CIP reference boards will be supported in the near future.

Further information about what you will find in B@D v0.9.1 can be found in the B@D Feature Page[5].

If you are interested in testing kernels using this version of the tooling please meet the developers at the cip-dev mailing list[6]. If you find bugs in KernelCI or LAVAv2 themselves, please report them upstream. If you find them in the configuration or any of the previously described topics, please report them in the CIP-testing bug tracker[7]. More general information about the CIP testing project can be found in the CIP wiki[8].

You can also read this release announcement on the CIP project blog[9]

[1] https://www.cip-project.org/ [2] https://github.com/kernelci/ [3] https://validation.linaro.org/ [4] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipdownload [5] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptestingboardatdesksingledevfeaturepage [6] https://lists.cip-project.org/mailman/listinfo/cip-dev [7] https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/boards [8] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptesting [9] http://bit.ly/2rhSILs