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Schedule create_hdd_rpi job: https://gitlab.suse.de/qac/qac-openqa-yaml/-/merge_requests/618

remove quiet boot option: https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pull/14188

allow using real serial console for bootup log: https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pull/14175

create_hdd prio: https://gitlab.suse.de/qac/qac-openqa-yaml/-/merge_requests/628

Documentation is being written here:
https://confluence.suse.com/display/~dheidler/Hardware+Automation

Current status here:
I planned to do the initial setup with two RPi4s (one openqa-worker and one SUT) but they are out of stock everywhere
and only available to huge prices.

So I will gather some RPi3B+ from the office and create a basic testing setup there.
They might have some problems with bluetooth so I would need to skip those test module for now.

dheidler wrote:

Current status here:
I planned to do the initial setup with two RPi4s (one openqa-worker and one SUT) but they are out of stock everywhere
and only available to huge prices.

So I will gather some RPi3B+ from the office and create a basic testing setup there.
They might have some problems with bluetooth so I would need to skip those test module for now.

Do you need help with something here? in any case, is there something else needed for this ticket? can we close it and create "theme" story? (Multi year story)

There is only one thing - I already wrote about it in the last paragraph of https://confluence.suse.com/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=~dheidler&title=Hardware+Automation

The raspberry pi 400 that is currently the worker node doesn't have enough RAM to hold the sdcard images for all three worker instances. And I don't want to save it on the sdcard, so I'm currently using an NFS share, which is obviously slow, so it takes some time for the jobs to start, when three scdard images are copied around at the same time.

I would like to have a raspberry pi 4 with 8gb of memory to replace the raspberry pi 400 (that has only 4GB of ram), but they are currently not in stock.

Another way would be to use some old x86_64 workstation with an AP-mode compatible wifi stick and a bluetooth stick as a worker node.