+1 on Michael's suggestion to use dummy_deploy

I've had some conversions with Kevin about his use requirements for LAVA, and here is a summary:

* For kernel testing, the kernel binary + ramdisk is provided over tftp. I think he has figured out how to override the boot_cmds so this is not an issue.
* Would like to utilize lava-test-shell however lava-test-shell makes assumptions about the rootfs. His idea is provide all the lava-test-shell support scripts in the ramdisk. All his existing tests are already included on this ramdisk.

Perhaps we can create another "type" for deployment data called "vanilla"

  "actions": [
    {
        "command": "dummy_deploy",
        "parameters": {
                "type": "vanilla"
         }
    },
    {
        "command": "boot_linaro_image"
    }
  ]

Target.vanilla_deployment_data['distro'] = 'vanilla'
Target.vanilla_deployment_data['lava_test_sh_cmd'] = '/bin/bash'
Target.vanilla_deployment_data['lava_test_dir'] = '???'
Target.vanilla_deployment_data['lava_test_results_part_attr'] = '???'

This "vanilla" target could carry the assumption that the lava-test-shell support scripts are already on the target...somewhere.



On 2 May 2013 15:29, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@linaro.org> wrote:
Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> writes:

> Hi LAVA folks,
>
> I'm working on using LAVA to boot boards in my own board farm, and for
> starters, am trying to use a job without a 'deploy' step (so I can use
> the existing on-board u-boot, and control it via boot_cmds.)
>
> Currently, the dispatcher assumes that a 'deploy' step has happened
> before a 'boot_linaro_image' step, which is not needed for my case, so
> here's a patch to set some defaults so a deploy step is not needed:

FWIW, there is a dummy_deploy action for this use case:

  "actions": [
    {
        "command": "dummy_deploy",
        "parameters": {
                "type": "ubuntu"
         }
    },
    {
        "command": "boot_linaro_image"
    }
  ]

Cheers,
mwh

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