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http://isfpga.org on in Monterey, CA Sun - Tue

Title: FPGA 2018 (at isfpga.org)

yeesh

those Opsis boards shipped _really_ quickly

ordered 21st, shipped 22nd, should be getting them tomorrow

froztbyte (IRC): hey!

froztbyte (IRC): (hours later) let me know when you get them powered up (they don't come with 12v PS or box... )

and I'll point you at my wiz bang flashing procedure

Haha, cool

Yeah I still have some assembly to do still

But I need to get the pieces before they disappear off the market again ;)

that's my pic for box - there is a bracket and room for mounting stuff

and don't forget the magic cable for input(s)

Ya I still need to buy some cables and all that jazz

Also I still have one of your odroids here

The things I was planning to look at it for probably somewhat got superceded by the debconf setup ansible

(which I'm for fucking damned sure not going to use because fuck ansible with a rake, but)

CarlFK[m]: what's easiest? Just buy you a new odroid, and I keep this one?

Anything else seems to involve painful shipping logistics

just keep it - it's $50 ish, your time is valuable, do $50 ish worth of anything

A'ight

I shall out equivalent numbers of beers on your tab

Put*

woot!

feel like building a ... test thing that tests the opsis?

we keep talking about it, and doing little things like it.. but don't have anything

I have gobs of code that do stuff, like download latest firmware, flash (kinda), use usb relay to power cycle the board, code to hit the serial thing and get the firmware version

but.. none of that has all been done in the day, so no, there isn't any sort of "and check the reported version matches what we think is current"

also, flash (kinda) = "try, see error, sudo run fix, try again" which normally works

Well, what's "test"?

That's really my first question I guess

some sort of automated test

"test if it comes back"? "test throughput and function"?

The latter needs a whole testbench with kit probably

Which isn't impossible but is something that requires Bits

Some cost, some time, some setup. Effort now and then.

CarlFK[m]: ya, like

I get the idea and I even agree with the notion, it's just "what's the scope"

a good first test = hit the serial thing and get the firmware version

That's fairly doable

One could put on one's Heathen Hat and write some expect or whatever

that will catch most of the sorts of problems we have been having

like "now the box doesn't boot"

or "build bot failed to build for that platform. "

or "sudo fix" didn't actually fix because we don't really have a good grip on that problem/solution

right now I do all this stuff manually, when I think about it, and feel like it, and dont' get distracted by chasing birds.

chrome

^sorry wrong window

itym wrong browser ;)