BoF: Automated Testing and Board Farming
summary
Discussion covers practical board‑farm operations: around 100 different devices across 19‑inch racks (about 16 devices per rack), shared between interactive and automated use; migrated GPIO one‑wire to CAN hardware and moved many serial ports to USB while facing flaky USB that is mitigated by port cycling and quality hubs; PDUs and ATX supplies handle diverse voltages; toolset inventory includes Lava, tbot, pdudaemon, labgrid, KernelCI; topics include USB multiplexing, video capture for boot analysis, controller-to-board mappings and reservation of external test resources.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 1:54Automated Testing
- 2:07Continuous Testing
- 4:05What Does Your Bot Farm Look like
- 7:08Multiplexing of Usb Devices
- 12:32Low Voltage Distribution
- 16:08Hardware Testing
- 37:11Kernel Ci
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