The Linux Foundation yummies

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 15:11 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2007, at 12:40, Thomas Charron wrote:
> 
> >  I'd love to see them also add a program where kernel devs could  
> > evaluate a
> > driver to make sure it works 'as it should'.
> 
> LTP:
> 
>    http://ltp.sourceforge.net/
> 
> may be what you're looking for.
> 
> It's very much dependent on having the appropriate hardware to run  
> the test on, though.  I find this often means the end user (me) finds  
> a kernel error, reports it, and somebody fixes it (on a sunny day).   
> Props to Alan Cox for recently tracking down an ATI bug on my to-be- 
> MythTV-box.
> 
> It would be nice if hardware vendors could further commit to having a  
> test box at their facilities with one of each of their products in  
> them, running LTP coverage.  Maybe that's the Silver Level badge, the  
> Bronze going to supporting a driver developer as mentioned, and the  
> Gold to doing your own drivers.
> 

This was one of the original goals of OSDL, was to provide a laboratory
for FOSS developers to test their code on those
hard-to-stick-under-your-desk-systems (like an IBM mainframe, or a 1000
disk NAS array).

Perhaps they are going back to this model, or one like it.

md