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netboot a hardware x86 machine with barrelfish #32

Open mwookawa opened 7 years ago

mwookawa commented 7 years ago

qemu works well for now, and a physical machine would have to be netbooted, so this is very low priority.

ghost commented 7 years ago

Why would it have to be netbooted? They're using multiboot headers, so all it should require is grub.

mwookawa commented 7 years ago

oh, it's just easiest to integrate it into nightlies if it's netbooted. tftp boot isn't actually that bad though. we should set one of the conroe machines up.

ghost commented 7 years ago

Reasonable point... although nightlies on real hardware are a nontrivial undertaking.

margoseltzer commented 7 years ago

This is precisely what jenkins is all about — makes regular tests on a variety of platforms reasonably straight forward.

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Reasonable point... although nightlies on real hardware are a nontrivial undertaking.

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ghost commented 7 years ago

Um, no? What makes testing on bare hardware a big deal is that it happens on bare hardware, not in a test harness. The choice of external test harness you use to start the whole thing off isn't even a secondary concern.