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eCos and RedBoot test farm


Hi Folks

Just to follow up all the conversations at FOSDEM about an eCos and RedBoot test farm for the benefit of those not present.

eCosCentric are in the progress of rebuilding the eCos and RedBoot test farm. This test farm will be similar to the one that was available at Red Hat (only better ;-). As such, this test farm will be used to validate eCos and RedBoot builds as well as execution of binaries.

Naturally the eCos and RedBoot maintainers within eCosCetric will derive a lot of benefit from this and I would also like to make this test farm freely available to *all* eCos and RedBoot maintainers but for non-commercial use only. The farm will of course also be made available for commercial use (e.g. validation of ports etc), but this kind of use will have to be paid for to help maintain the farm.

(For the benefit of lurkers, it was almost a full time job maintaining the old test farm - burning in new RedBoots, replacing/fixing unresponsive boards, etc etc)

To clarify non-commercial use, only the results of builds and test runs for public and sponsored boards will be published on the web (for all to read). This will allow all the maintainers equal opportunity to validate new or contributed code to public or sponsored boards. Also, only maintainers will be allowed access to the boards in the farm, they will not be public resources. The farm will also be capable of driving/testing boards at remote sites, but again this will only be permitted for non-commercial purposes only.

As stated previously, the intention is to provide a free resource to the maintainers to allow them to identify and fix problems, test/verify contributions, etc for eCos and RedBoot. Test results will also be made public for the subset of public and sponsored boards running in the farm.

Andrew, Gary and Mark - please let me know if you are interested in having access to such a facility or have any problems, suggestions etc with our offer.

It is eCosCentric's intention to use the test farm to certify their paying customers' ports as well as to make the farm available commercially for other commercial organisations to use, if there is sufficient interest. The test farm will be housed in one of Paul's sheds and eCosCentric will be paying for the net connection, etc, so the service will cost us money to provide. However, by having board sponsors and commercial customers we hope to meet these costs. Obviously no guarantees on the availability of boards can be made as well as the test farm - as can be expected with embedded hardware etc.

Cheers
-- Alex







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