On 5 December 2012 06:39, Antonio Terceiro <antonio.terceiro@linaro.org> wrote:

I'm working on adding Galaxy Nexus support to LAVA using fastboot. This
is work in progress, but I can already get a full boot test to run on
the Nexus. :-)

That's great news.

I noticed that the builds for all other devices are made with tarballs,
and the LAVA jobs for them are also invoked passing tarballs.

The Galaxy Nexus builds, on the other hand, are released as .img files.

That's because of the different ways needed to install bits. The tarballs are useless for a Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7 or Nexus 10 because there's simply no way to install them as the OS is booted from internal storage that can't be accessed - so instead we have to send files that fastboot can handle.

May I assume that the LAVA jobs you guys will be submitting for the
Galaxy Nexus will also use .img files (so that I don't need to handle
file format conversion etc)

Yes, that would be best.

or is it useful for you to submitt tarballs
and have them converted into .img by LAVA?

That would be rather useless because the tarballs wouldn't be what users get - but if that makes things easier for you we can build them.

Converting them would basically be a matter of unpacking them and using mkext4fs from the Android source tree to generate a filesystem image - but it's probably easier to just stick with img files.

ttyl
bero