Hi,
I have some questions about the fastboot/adb in docker support I hope you can help with. Use case is for android 10 aosp testing with LAVA 2020.05.
Thanks to Antonio's presentation and draft documentation I have simple fastboot host to DUT communication working for a u-boot based arm64 board. I am now trying to apply an existing flash process, which uses a script on the host to send fastboot cmds, into a LAVA job.
I can see how fastboot --set-active, reboot and flash commands all have equivalent controls in a 'deploy to fastboot docker' LAVA job section. Do equivalents exist for the fastboot oem format, oem erase, format and erase commands or is there a way to insert them in the deploy?
Expecting that will take some engineering work, in parallel I wanted as a stop gap to try running the flash script from a LAVA job. So people could work on the testing side whilst I resolved the deploy section. Antonio suggested trying to do that from the test section I recall. To do that I face two issues: 1) The build artifacts are on a local volume rather than an artifact server so I need to get them into the docker container in an automated way. Is there a way to either mount a local volume or file list into the container without asking LAVA to deploy them?
As an experiment I tried using the docker image manipulation added in 2020.04 to do this. There I hit a problem with the current implementation. It seems the 'deploy to downloads' implementation does not check for a local image first, as the other docker support does, before trying to pull the image. So I get an error when the pull fails: https://lava.genivi.org/scheduler/job/961#L24
2) The job needs to be able to boot the DUT, interrupt u-boot and start fastboot so the host has something to communicate with once the test section is reached.
I can achieve that in a horrible hacky way by having a deploy section with a simple single flash image (dtbo say) and using the reboot controls to get the board to reboot into fastboot to await the flash script being run from the test section, but I expect there is a better way. Any ideas?
Regards
Steve