[Linaro-validation] time to move away from conmux?

[Alexander Sack]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Zygmunt Krynicki
<zygmunt.krynicki at linaro.org> wrote:
> W dniu 18.05.2012 09:29, Dave Pigott pisze:
>
>> On 18 May 2012, at 01:20, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> After the last few days of poking at things, I think it's time to
>>> finally move fully away from conmux to a connection_command /
>>> hard_reset_command based approach.
>>>
>>> I think the actual config file mangling can be done with a short shell
>>> script.  Although lava-core will fix this properly, I can spend a quick
>>> 10 minutes hacking up lava console and lava powerstab commands to get
>>> around the loss of easy conmux-console based command lines.
>>
>>
>> I agrees, however the one thing I will miss is being able to go into
>> conmux and do "~$hardreset" to reboot a board. What would be nice is if we
>> built a small tool set that allowed us to get the boards serial port and PDU
>> details by name, connect to the board and reboot the board.
>
>
> Let's make sure we can call: $ lava-dev device reset beagle01

Also, in the light of "flashing to sd mux" (which needs board powered
off) commands for "poweroff" and "poweron" would be awesome I guess
:).


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