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On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 16:38, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> OSDL does not support IDE.
>
Well, some of the test systems only have IDE but no we
aren't in the "try all of the IDE chip set" support business.

> See, I asked some time ago about testing raid arrays and a possible thread
> driver. All you will find there is onboard hosts, and I do not believe
> they stock the all the junk systems out there.
>

I'm always open to proposals but I've only really seen requests of
"I would like to test vendor A's hardware". In my mind that is
a Vendor A problem not a generic OS or driver issue. Now after
saying that if there is a class of issues that require a configuration
I'm happy to look at providing that.

> 150 systems is a not a large enough sample.
>

Agreed even if they are all different chip sets and controllers.

On a side note:

I am impressed with the serial ATA and the couple of products
that I've seen so far. I think that this could remove the last barrier
for ATA drives in larger systems and wait to see what products people
come up with in the near future.



> 500 ++ w/ various add-in cards * (the number of drive models per vendor) *
> the number vendors eek stop ....
>
> Add in ATAPI devices, CFA, etc ...
>
> You see the combination are of a scale unchecked.
>
> I started at one point trying to have a single drive vendor with at least
> 1000 or more systems in one lab to test their product over the host
> hardware base, to run kernel checks. The task was beyond scale.
>
> All it takes is a bus analyzer and a few systems known to be good to
> perfect the driver. Then you deal with all the exceptions of the crap
> combinations.
>
> That is how I do it, since I have a code base that has been run over a
> bus analyzer I know it works.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Adam J. Richter wrote:
>
> > On 2002-08-17, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >Volunteers willing to run Cerberus test sets on 2.4 boxes with IDE
> > >controllers would also be much appreciated. That way we can get good
> > >coverage tests and catch badness immediately
> >
> > From visiting the osdl.org booth a LinuxWorld, I understand
> > that they have a farm of 150 deliberately differently configured
> > computers on which you are supposed to be able to run your own
> > kernel tests on your own kernels.
> >
> > They have a procedure for adding new tests described at
> > http://www.osdl.org/stp/HOWTO.Port_Tests.html.
> >
> > I think it would be informative to run 2.4 ported code and
> > Martin's stack against IDE tests on this system. With this, you could
> > not only spot problems, but see problems happening in a certain pattern
> > which could sometimes simplify finding a bug.
> >
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