 hard coding board names is a bad idea and from what i know  discourage by the infra team  see the below from assign stable images py n b hardcoded board names are evil this blacklist uses hardcoded names because it is meant to define a list of legacies that will shrivel and die over time do not add to this list if there is a new use case that requires extending the blacklist concept  you should find a maintainable solution that deletes this code  i am not sure if this necessarily applies to the tests as well  debayan already added a message stating the need for skipping the test on these boards and we can change that to a todo predicated on the fix for the associated bug  adding  dshi  for his thoughts on skipping tests for certain boards due to board specific issues here are couple other examples of skipping tests for certain boards builds  