[Lts-dev] Adding coverage

This past RC cycle I think we exposed a weakness in what we have in LKFT where the ability to execute some key functional stacks in the system to drive the kernel would probably be useful for validation.

The networking bug involving dhclient for example.

So what if we used either Debian, Gentoo or akin that has a mechanism that has as part of it’s packaging system a test target for each package. Simplest build a package, runs ‘make test’ (or akin) for some key packages that exercises parts of the system that should help tickle the kernel in interesting ways to tease out regressions.

Thus wouldn’t work on modest boards but the socionext or Juno boards could probably work fine.

Thoughts?

Regards, Tom