Huawei Platform Bringup

Registered by vishal

This is a BP to track the effort on adding Huawei platform support to Linaro android builds.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
vishal
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
vishal
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
vishal
Definition:
New
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 13.06
Started by
vishal
Completed by
vishal

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Meta:
Headline: Huawei Platform support is available in linaro android.
Acceptance: A member buid is setup for Huawei platform
Roadmap id: CARD-379

[2013/2/6 vishalbhoj] The board is yet to be made available to the team to work on it. Currently Blocked on non availability of the board.
[2013/2/25 pfefferz] Shifting to 13.03.
[2013/3/26 vishalbhoj] Moving to 13.04. Waiting for the FB support from the LT.
[2013/4/18 vishalbhoj] Currently blocked on deciding how proprietary tools need to accessed in the build.
[2013/4/24 vishalbhoj] Moving the BP to 13.05
[2013/5/10 vishalbhoj] Android build is set https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android-member-hisilicon-restricted/hi4511/
[2013/5/29 vishalbhoj] Waiting for deployment of the board in the LAVA lab
[2013/6/19 vishalbhoj] The board is deployed in the lab. The code change for CI loop is submitted here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~vishalbhoj/linaro-android-build-tools/k3v2-job-submission-support

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Work Items

Work items:
Provide a generic filesystem which could boot against Android Kernel: DONE
Add support for huawei platfrom in Linaro android git repository: DONE
Integrate the landing teams kernel from git://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/hisilicon/kernel.git: DONE
Create a restricted build for Huawei platform: DONE
Add support to deploy the builds to LAVA for validation: DONE

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