Re: [RFC PATCH] travis.yml: Drop the default softmmu builds

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> On 05/09/2020 14.15, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 05/08/2020 20.54, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> The total runtime of all Travis jobs is very long and we are testing
>>> all softmmu targets in the gitlab-CI already - so we can speed up the
>>> Travis testing a little bit by not testing the softmmu targets here
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>  Well, ok, we do not test all the softmmu targets on gitlab-CI with
>>>  that same ancient version of Ubuntu ... but do we still care about
>>>  testing all softmmut targets on Ubuntu Xenial at all? ... at least
>>>  according to our support policy, we do not care about Xenial anymore.
>>>
>>>  .travis.yml | 14 --------------
>>>  1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
>>> index 6695c0620f..18290bc51d 100644
>>> --- a/.travis.yml
>>> +++ b/.travis.yml
>>> @@ -123,20 +123,6 @@ jobs:
>>>          - CONFIG="--disable-system --static"
>>>          - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
>>>  
>>> -
>>> -    # we split the system builds as it takes a while to build them all
>>> -    - name: "GCC (main-softmmu)"
>>> -      env:
>>> -        - CONFIG="--disable-user --target-list=${MAIN_SOFTMMU_TARGETS}"
>>> -        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
>>> -
>>> -
>>> -    - name: "GCC (other-softmmu)"
>>> -      env:
>>> -       - CONFIG="--disable-user --target-list-exclude=${MAIN_SOFTMMU_TARGETS}"
>>> -        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
>>> -
>>> -
>>>      # Just build tools and run minimal unit and softfloat checks
>>>      - name: "GCC check-softfloat (user)"
>>>        env:
>>>
>> 
>> Ping?
>
> Ping^2 ... Alex, Philippe, any opinions on this patch?

I'm agnostic on this. Is it worth slightly reducing our coverage for ~50
minutes of runtime out of 10 hours? I guess it would be a bit greener.

Acked-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

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Alex Bennée