Hi Antonio,

For android config what we do is: Fetch the latest Linaro tar balls from http://snapshots.linaro.org/android/~linaro-android/vexpress-linaro-mp/lastS... and replace the kernel artefacts in the boot.tar

For Ubuntu I can see the following from snapshots area http://snapshots.linaro.org/quantal/hwpacks/vexpress/latest

With my limited understanding on debian packages, Could you explain what exactly need to be replaced? I see lots of .deb package files listed there.

Also in terms of filesystem does the below one would be the right one for us to pick? http://snapshots.linaro.org/quantal/images/nano-lava/latest

Looking at the LAVA documentation http://lava-dispatcher.readthedocs.org/en/latest/jobfile-prebuilt.html

It mentions about a single image to be referenced via json file.

How do i arrive at such an image from the hwpack + nano-lava fs?

Thanks Basil Eljuse...

-----Original Message----- From: Antonio Terceiro [mailto:antonio.terceiro@linaro.org] Sent: 28 March 2013 13:32 To: Basil Eljuse Cc: Linaro Validation; Dean Arnold Subject: Re: [Linaro-validation] Help in understanding how to generate Ubuntu images for LAVA from locally built kernel artefacts...

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:20:13AM +0000, Basil Eljuse wrote:

Hi,

We wanted to have the ability to run tests in local LAVA setup on the Ubuntu config.

Provided we have kernel.bin and dtb generated by a job locally, could someone please provide us with the details on

How this can be packaged and made into the ubuntu image which can be launched in LAVA?

Any pointers is welcome.

I think that the easiest way would be to create a modified hardware pack with your kernel and DTB, and let LAVA handle it like it already handles the regular Linaro hardware packs.

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Thanks Dave.

Subsequently i stumbled on the lava documentation about 'Deploy using Linaro media create'

http://lava-dispatcher.readthedocs.org/en/latest/jobfile-lmc.html

Dean is trying out some steps at our end.

Thanks Basil Eljuse...

-----Original Message----- From: Dave Pigott [mailto:dave.pigott@linaro.org] Sent: 28 March 2013 16:20 To: Basil Eljuse Cc: Antonio Terceiro; Linaro Validation; Dean Arnold Subject: Re: [Linaro-validation] Help in understanding how to generate Ubuntu images for LAVA from locally built kernel artefacts...

On 28 Mar 2013, at 14:05, Basil Eljuse Basil.Eljuse@arm.com wrote:

Hi Antonio,

For android config what we do is: Fetch the latest Linaro tar balls from http://snapshots.linaro.org/android/~linaro-android/vexpress-linaro-mp/lastS... and replace the kernel artefacts in the boot.tar

For Ubuntu I can see the following from snapshots area http://snapshots.linaro.org/quantal/hwpacks/vexpress/latest

With my limited understanding on debian packages, Could you explain what exactly need to be replaced? I see lots of .deb package files listed there.

Also in terms of filesystem does the below one would be the right one for us to pick? http://snapshots.linaro.org/quantal/images/nano-lava/latest

Looking at the LAVA documentation http://lava-dispatcher.readthedocs.org/en/latest/jobfile-prebuilt.html

It mentions about a single image to be referenced via json file.

How do i arrive at such an image from the hwpack + nano-lava fs?

Hi Basil,

You use linaro-media-create from lava-image-tools to create the single image.

Thanks

Dave

Thanks Basil Eljuse...

-----Original Message----- From: Antonio Terceiro [mailto:antonio.terceiro@linaro.org] Sent: 28 March 2013 13:32 To: Basil Eljuse Cc: Linaro Validation; Dean Arnold Subject: Re: [Linaro-validation] Help in understanding how to generate Ubuntu images for LAVA from locally built kernel artefacts...

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:20:13AM +0000, Basil Eljuse wrote:

...

Hi,

We wanted to have the ability to run tests in local LAVA setup on the Ubuntu config.

Provided we have kernel.bin and dtb generated by a job locally, could someone please provide us with the details on

How this can be packaged and made into the ubuntu image which can be launched in LAVA?

Any pointers is welcome.

I think that the easiest way would be to create a modified hardware pack with your kernel and DTB, and let LAVA handle it like it already handles the regular Linaro hardware packs.

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Great!

Thanks Fathi. We'll try these steps at our end.

Thanks Basil Eljuse...

-----Original Message----- From: Fathi Boudra [mailto:fathi.boudra@linaro.org] Sent: 29 March 2013 16:21 To: Basil Eljuse Cc: Linaro Validation; Dean Arnold Subject: Re: [Linaro-validation] Help in understanding how to generate Ubuntu images for LAVA from locally built kernel artefacts...

Hi Basil,

On 28 March 2013 13:20, Basil Eljuse Basil.Eljuse@arm.com wrote:

Hi,

We wanted to have the ability to run tests in local LAVA setup on the Ubuntu config.

Provided we have kernel.bin and dtb generated by a job locally, could someone please provide us with the details on

How this can be packaged and made into the ubuntu image which can be launched in LAVA?

Any pointers is welcome.

Create a deb package using 'deb-pkg' make target (from the kernel source): make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- deb-pkg

Then replace the deb package in an existing hwpack using linaro-hwpack-replace (from linaro-image-tools): linaro-hwpack-replace -t hwpack_linaro-board.tar.gz -p linux-image-board.deb -r linux-image -d -i

That's the way it's done in our Kernel CI.

Cheers,

Fathi

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