Helen Koike

Quickly Test Your Kernel with GitLab CI

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.

Linux kernel development workshop

AD-HOC workshop to start coding to the kernel:

• Setting up a development environment with Virtme
• Modify the kernel code to say “Hello World”
• Find a coding style fix to make
• Submit your first patch to the kernel