From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Fwd: Rough notes from testing unconference
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:37:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53FA30CC.9020404@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUJhghbOS0JiMidxLjNXe-Gofheb0A1pB_8kJemtak-6w@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/24/2014 11:15 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
>> Cross building the kernel isn't the problem. That's easy. Getting a
>> rootfs and the tests into the rootfs can be hard, depending on the
>> platform (a problem for some embedded targets).
>
> In the past, I have used OpenWRT to build the rootfs for the test
> target.
>
I very much prefer Grant's direct method - it ensures that the available
test code is automatically integrated into the root file system, and that
there are no architecture / target dependencies.
For my part I have used various means to create root file systems for my
own tests, depending on the architecture. I see it as significant improvement
to have it all together in a single place, in our control, and to have it
as simple as possible.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-24 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20140819163621.GA15109@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-08-22 14:19 ` Grant Likely
2014-08-22 17:59 ` Shuah Khan
2014-08-22 18:08 ` Amit Kucheria
2014-08-28 21:54 ` Shuah Khan
2014-08-23 13:35 ` Bird, Tim
2014-08-23 21:12 ` Grant Likely
2014-08-30 1:09 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [kselftest] kselftest wiki (was RE: Fwd: Rough notes from testing unconference) Bird, Tim
2014-08-30 2:55 ` Shuah Khan
2014-08-30 5:15 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2014-08-23 8:12 ` [Ksummit-discuss] Fwd: Rough notes from testing unconference Fengguang Wu
2014-08-24 17:12 ` Grant Likely
2014-08-24 18:14 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-25 9:23 ` Grant Likely
2014-08-25 10:43 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-24 18:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-08-24 18:37 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2014-08-24 18:47 ` Olof Johansson
2014-08-24 19:14 ` Jason Cooper
2014-08-24 19:16 ` Jason Cooper
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