Just out of curiosity, is Thunderbolt really consideration for Client Cert now? AFAIK, only Apple uses it, and more importantly, Apple is in the process of abandoning it for USB-C, it would seem.
Jeff On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Ara Pulido <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 25/03/15 12:42, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: >> I agree there are some setup considerations. >> >> We should think about what we currently do (e.g. extra storage drive >> or thumb drive or blank/rewritable optical disk) and see how we want >> to handle things like this. >> My gut feeling is that we should have something other than a job and >> that for certification testing we should just do manifests and ignore >> all the mumbo-jumbo flaky detection. It's not worth it and it doesn't >> solve the problem. Let's focus on how to incorporate manifests into >> our workflow. Then knowing the canonical identifier of the machine >> being tested we can just load the manifest and test without flaky >> guesses. > > I agree manifests seems to be the way to go. But this is a long term > plan, that I agree we should pursue, but not relevant to TB. > > For TB, as we need the tests now, let's stick to the asking the user > thing for now. > > Let's discuss manifest in parallel. > > Thanks, > Ara. > >> >> Thanks >> ZK >> >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Ara Pulido <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 25/03/15 11:00, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: >>>> Hey. >>>> >>>> So my opinion on thunderbolt is that it is actually pretty good that >>>> we cannot detect it. The last thing we should do is ask the user. At >>>> the end of the day, we'll clone all the tests and replace the word >>>> "display port" with "thunderbolt". >>> >>> So, we have three tests to create: >>> >>> 1) Displays - I agree that in this case it is equivalent to DP >>> 2) TB Storage >>> 3) Ability to put a TB storage device connected to the TB monitor, which >>> is connected to the system. >>> >>>> >>>> The only exception is the daisy-chain test which should IMHO follow >>>> our dependency step process where we ask the user to setup a >>>> particular configuration before doing a off-the-mill storage test. >>> >>> Exactly, that's the exception, but that's a test that we need to create, >>> and only offer to those systems that have a TB port. >>> >>> That's why we need to identify those TB (by asking the user), just >>> because of the daisy chain one, but that's enough to have the test. >>> >>> Specially because we have just 1 TB monitor, so imagine that you are >>> testing a system (from a pile that you need to test) and you don't >>> realize it is a TB one: >>> >>> 1) You start testing >>> 2) Checkbox thinks is a DP, so asks you to plug a DP monitor >>> 3) You do it >>> 4) Then it asks you to do daisy chain, if you have a TB port, and then >>> you realize it is actually a TB one, so you need to remove that monitor >>> and go and get the TB one. This wastes time. >>> >>> I think we should ask the user whether this is a TB system, and do it at >>> the very beginning of the run. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> Ara. >>> >>>> >>>> Thunderbolt is display port. Let's not clone display tests because the >>>> color and shape of the plug is different. Storage tests are different >>>> because we're not testing thunderbolt. We're testing the add-on dongle >>>> that adapts SATA or other storage device to work over PCI-E. This is >>>> just a new shape for a storage controller card. We have tests for >>>> storage. Nothing to see here, move along. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> ZK >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- "Entropy isn't what it used to be." Jeff Lane - Server Certification Team Lead, Tools Developer, Warrior Poet, Lover of Pie Phone: 919-442-8649 Ubuntu Ham: W4KDH Freenode IRC: bladernr or bladernr_ gpg: 1024D/3A14B2DD 8C88 B076 0DD7 B404 1417 C466 4ABD 3635 3A14 B2DD -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
