Setting up RISC-V board with LAVA for KernelCI

This document describes how one can integrate Banana Pi F3 (and a Raspberry pi device) with Linaro's Automation Validation Architecture (LAVA) webserver.

Documentation chronological sequence is as follows.

Getting Started:

• Describes how to install LAVA webserver
• Describes the difference between Worker, Master/server, device-types, devices
• Describes how to add workers, device-types, devices
• Describes how to add the QEMU device as the first device
• Describes how to run the first job on QEMU device

Adding first physical device (Raspberry Pi 4 Model B):

• Describes how to add first physical device (Raspberry Pi 4 Model B) in LAVA
• Describes how to setup PDU even if you dont have a PDU with Arduino and Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
• Describes how to add device template and connection configuration in /etc/ser2net.yaml
• Describes how to run first job to check the connection

Setting up RISC-V device (Banana Pi F3) for KernelCI:

• Describes the bootflow of Banana Pi F3
• Describes how to format the sd card and prepare the Board for KernelCI/LAVA
• Describes where to get the binary files (FSBL, U-Boot etc.)

Adding RISC-V device (Banana Pi F3):

• Describes how to add a newer physical board in LAVA worker and then add it in the lava-server
• Describes how to set up PDU with arduino uno and relays

LAVA Web-Server for RISCV boot and deployment:

• Setting up Banana Pi F3 Boot Flow for Kernel CI
  • U-Boot Secondary Program Loader (SPL) Setup
  • U-Boot environment for BPI-F3
  • Host Machine NFS Server Setup
  • Booting the Linux kernel on BPI-F3
• Automating with LAVA Job (.yaml) File