Re: looking for u-boot testers

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm looking for people willing to test u-boot targets on an ongoing
> basis for various platforms. While I have a handful of boards I can test
> on, I don't have the hardware or perhaps more importantly, the time to
> always test on all of them.
>
> I hope this sounds like a reasonable approach to folks...
>
> I'm thinking of making this a requirement for enabling future boards in
> the debian u-boot packages, otherwise we might end up shipping packages
> which include support for broken boards. And certainly a requirement
> with requests for patches not yet mainlined...
>
> I can handle the rpi_b, Cubieboard, am335x_boneblack, Bananapi,
> wandboard_quad, and maybe the nokia_rx51. If we ever get support
> upstreamed, maybe the cubox-i target as well...
>
> But that leaves a lot of boards without any real testing, most of which
> were added before I got involved in u-boot maintenance. I may consider
> removing support for some of these boards if someone isn't willing to
> to help ensure they continue to work...
>
>
> armel: dockstar, dreamplug, guruplug, openrd_ultimate, sheevaplug
>
> armhf: Cubietruck, Cubietruck_FEL, igep0020, mx51_efikamx, mx51_efikasb,
> mx53loco, omap3_beagle, omap4_panda, udoo_quad, wandboard_dl, wandboard_solo

Feel free to ping me on the above "armhf" devices, ( i don't have the
cubietruck or efikam's ) But have almost every variant of the other
listed devices.

> mips: dbau1100, qemu_mips
>
> I intend list of names/emails along with the targets, and will likely
> request testing of new upstream versions(roughly every 4 months), and
> help with build failures of specific platforms...
>
> If you have hardware for any of the above boards and would be willing to
> test the debian packages regularly, it would be much appreciated!

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
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