RFC: Gitlab CI for barebox

[Ahmad Fatoum]

Hello Antony,

On 30.01.22 13:00, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have made simple Gitlab CI for barebox.

Nice.

> Gitlab CI runner setup instruction and
> the source for Debian 11 docker image can be found at:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/frantony/barebox-gitlab-ci-runner

I had tried something similar, but with Github actions

https://github.com/a3f/barebox/actions/runs/740206381

I didn't have the time to pursue this further. I am fine
with Gitlab as well.

> 
> Sample gitlab-ci.yaml config file:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/frantony/barebox/-/commit/b1ed597d8e67c8f76f4f98cd1c6605b936cf2471

Here's how it looks for Github actions with emulate.pl:

https://github.com/a3f/barebox/blob/emulate.pl/.github/workflows/build-configs.yaml


> Corresponding gitlab pipeline results:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/frantony/barebox/-/pipelines/459422690
> 
> 
> Some notes:
> 
>   * there are several "images size > maximum size" errors during 'build ARM'

Ye. IIRC Sascha disables these for his build tests..? Would be nice to get
those resolved sometime.

>   * fake firmware blobs for ARM are used

Could we just fetch them from the correct location? That way we could
just provide the prebuilt binaries for download. But for a first step,
fakes are fine.

>   * 'build doc' produces sphinx generated html docs archive artifact
>   * 'build ARM/MIPS/RISC-V/X86/sandbox' produce log/ directory archive artifacts

Nice.

>   * no support for kvx, openrisc and powerpc

My GA script supports openrisc. Perhaps Jules is interested in getting
CI working for kvx as well once we have the infrastructure in place?

> 
> @Ahmad
> 
> I suppose we can add your qemu barebox/test/emulate.pl tests into CI.

Here is the Github action config for the tests:
https://github.com/a3f/barebox/blob/emulate.pl/.github/workflows/vm-tests.yaml

Any thoughts on how/if to integrate with the mailing list?

Cheers,
Ahmad

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