Re: List of test hardware?
On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 10:44 -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
Hi QA team,
I had a conversation with someone at FOSDEM last weekend about the
hardware tests we run. They like the Arm list (I assume they meant
[1]), but wanted to see a list of hardware for x86_64 and other
hardware.
Do we have something like that? If so, I couldn't find it easily. If
not, that might be something folks would be interested in. Maybe it
would be a good first step toward moving some QA docs to docs.fp.o
(/me ducks)
No, we don't. The existence of the list for ARM is kind of a symptom of
the fact that there just aren't that many different ARM devices
available - especially the types of developer boards which are/were the
focus of the ARM SIG's work. So it's feasible to maintain a list of the
specific ones that we formally support. It's important to note this
isn't just something the QA team made up, it's actually something the
*ARM* team chose, and denotes the platforms they actually put their
work into. This is an approach that works; it'd be less useful for QA
to just arbitrarily define a list of x86_64 hardware we Care A Lot
about, because for it to mean much, it requires buy-in from the folks
doing the actual enablement work. If we do a lot of testing on some
specific hardware, but that means we find lots of bugs that don't
really get fixed by the HW enablement folks with any particular
priority, then all we gained is the knowledge that "hey, Fedora sure is
broken on this hardware!"
It is rather less practical to do this for x86_64 because there's
basically an infinite range of hardware out there, and what we test on
is just "whatever people in the QA team happen to have to hand". We
could make a list of what that is at any given point in time, but I
suspect it'd be pretty prone to bitrot.
I believe there's some kind of laptop initiative under way which may
involve denoting specific laptop models as somehow a priority for
support, but that's a wider initiative than just the QA team, and I
don't know its current status.
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