Ensure lava can deploy android images on snowball boards

Registered by Paul Larson

Snowball boards are now supported in lava, but we need to make sure that they can work with android as well, and start running android jobs with them.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Paul Larson
Priority:
High
Drafter:
Paul Larson
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Le Chi Thu
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for trunk
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 2012.01
Started by
Le Chi Thu
Completed by
Le Chi Thu

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[le-chi-thu,2011-11-29] A work around is found. The snowball is back on production.
[pwlars, 2011-10-25] If bugs are found, please file them and link them to the blueprint
[le-chi-thu, 2011-11-17] still working with create a stable enough master image and conmux issue.
[fboudra, 2011-11-18] re-target to 2011.12. Please, link to the bug report blocking the blueprint ASAP. TIA.
[le-chi-thu, 2011-11-29] link to LP: #891078
[fboudra, 2011-11-29] update implementation status: blocked -> not started
[le-chi-thu 2011-12-14] The lava-dispatcher support for snow is merged and able to deploy test images. But the test images failed to boot up.
[fboudra, 2011-16-12] re-target to 2012.01. Unblocked as the new hwpack works (tested on V11) and a workaround is available for reboot LP: #872833.
[le-chi-thu 2012-01-12] The lava-dispatcher now support Android. The soft reboot fix is added to lava-dispatcher as well. It is merged.

Meta:
Headline: LAVA now runs Android testing on Snowball boards
Acceptance: LAVA/Android CI loop runs tests on snowball boards

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Work Items

Work items:
Test local deployment with snowball using the dispatcher: DONE
Test lava-android-test with android on snowball: DONE
Add snowball testing to android ci tests: DONE

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