Re: [PATCH 0/4] CI improvements

["Maxim Yu. Osipov" <mosipov@ilbers.de>]

On 2/14/19 5:08 PM, Maxim Yu. Osipov wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> At the moment there is a confusion regarding CI build.
> "Fast" CI build (called with parameter '-f') _cross_ builds
> 3 most common (at least we think that) configurations
> with cached base repository feature enabled:
> 
>   * multiconfig:qemuarm-stretch:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemuarm64-stretch:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemuamd64-stretch:isar-image-base
> 
> When default (w/o parameters) CI is called it _natively_ builds
> the following set of configurations:
> 
>   * multiconfig:qemuarm-jessie:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemuarm-stretch:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemuarm-buster:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemuarm64-stretch:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemui386-jessie:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemui386-stretch:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemui386-buster:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemuamd64-jessie:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemuamd64-stretch:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemuamd64-buster:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:qemuamd64-buster-tgz:isar-image-base
>   * multiconfig:rpi-jessie:isar-image-base
> 
> Unfortunately this set doesn't include supported configurations
> (real boards)
>   * multiconfig:bananapi-stretch.conf
>   * hikey-stretch.conf
>   * de0-nano-soc-stretch.conf
> 
> The reason is that these configurations include build of Linux kernel/U-Boot so
> the native build will last huge amount of time.
> 
> So the problem with two flavours (fast and default) of CI build is that they
> test different features for the subset of all supported configurations.
> 
> After upgrade of CI server we intend to increase a test coverage -
>   * Include cross builds for mentioned boards hikey, de0-nano-soc etc.
>   * To use default build for overnight builds with different combination of features enabled
>   (native and cross, with or without used cached base repo etc.)
> 
> This patchset is the first step towards this direction.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Maxim.
> 

Applied to the 'next'.


> Maxim Yu. Osipov (4):
>    ci: Introduce TARGETS_SET variable
>    ci: Introduce --repro parameter to enable use of cached base
>      repository
>    ci: Include de0-nano-soc target into fast build
>    ci: Disable use of cached base repository for fast build by default
> 
>   scripts/ci_build.sh | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>   1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> 


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