Dear Tom, In message <20131107133159.GR5925@bill-the-cat> you wrote: > > I feel this is the hard part of the problem, and what we're glossing > over. What has to be tested by the board maintainer? What are we going > to leave to their discretion? Will am335x_evm not count if I don't dig > up the NOR cape for it?
Good question. Eventually this is something that develops over time. Intially, we might be satisfied with a very basic "it works" message, which may just mean that this specific version booted on the actual hardware. In the long run, we might provide a more detailed questionaire to the reported. I could for example imagine a tool that parses the board's config file and then provides some checkboxes - if there is NOR flash configured on the board, ask if NOR has been tested; similar for network, MMC, USB, ... other features. One day we might even have more developers using automatic test tools so we could generate information on a per-command base. I know that I'm just dreaming, but we should try to just be open for any such future extensions, even if we start really small now. I think we all agree that _any_ kind of test information will be better than none. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de You see things; and you say ``Why?'' But I dream things that never were; and I say ``Why not?'' - George Bernard Shaw _Back to Methuselah_ (1921) pt. 1, act 1 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot