Quickly Test Your Kernel with GitLab CI

Speaker: Helen Koike

Track: Embedded & Kernel

Type: Long talk (45 minutes)

Room: Bada

Time: Aug 02 (Fri): 15:30

Duration: 0:45

GitLab is being used by several big projects as a development platform, and now has even more value with it’s CI/CD feature, that allows not only pre-merge tests on MRs, but also allows developers to easily test their code before even submitting the patch on a MR. The question now is: can the kernel also benefit from this feature? In this talk we’ll cover the experience we are having in the DRM subsystem where a GitLab-CI test pipelines is configured and available for any developer to test their code on several different devices across several labs, but we’ll also discuss how this can be made generic enough for other subsystems, without depending too much on a given infrastructure, the challenges involved, share ideas and collect feedback from the community.