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From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To: "John B. Wyatt IV" <jwyatt@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Automating console_blast.sh
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:57:23 +0106
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On 2024-02-19, "John B. Wyatt IV" <jwyatt@redhat.com> wrote:
> I am investigating if we can automate, and, possibly add
> console_blash.sh [1] to our test suite here at Red Hat.

It is called "console_blast.sh". ;-)

> At Red Hat we use SSH to manage our test boxes. On an off-list email
> you wrote that 'Only the UART should be used as a console'. I took
> this as no ssh session should be used from the boot up until the
> crash, but I should have confirmed this. Is this correct?

SSH is fine. SSH sessions are not consoles. Consoles are specified with
the console= or netconsole= boot argument and receive the kernel
messages automatically from the kernel.

> The license for our test suite is GPL v3 [2]. May we have your
> permission to license it under that or permissive?

Yes, GPL v3 is OK.

> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rt-users/ZcQjxa4UA6hzXHnU@thinkpad2021/
>
> [2] https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/tests/kernel/kernel-tests/-/tree/main/rt-tests

John