RFC: Gitlab CI for barebox

[Sascha Hauer]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:39:45AM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I disable these checks for my build tests. Getting these issues
resolved only holds for a certain time. Overall bloat will break it
sooner or later anyway :(
It's fighting against windmills.

> 
> >   * 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.

I'm not sure we even have all binaries. I guess some of the mvebu
startup binaries would have to be extracted from the hardware and I
don't know if we are allowed to share them for download if we extracted
them.

Sascha

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