Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] kci-gitlab: Introducing GitLab-CI Pipeline for Kernel Testing

Jarkko Sakkinen
2025-01-23T21:30:46Z

On Thu Jan 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM EET, Vignesh Raman wrote:
> We are working towards creating a generic, upstream GitLab-CI pipeline
> (kci-gitlab) that will replace DRM-CI [1]. The proposed GitLab-CI pipeline
> is designed with a distributed infrastructure model, making it possible
> to run on any gitLab instance. We plan to leverage KernelCI [2] as the
> backend, utilizing its hardware, rootfs, test plans, and KCIDB [3]
> integration.

Why can't you keep the next version of your great pipeline outside the
kernel tree?

If there is a legit motivation for doing that, why it needs to be bound
to Gitlab? Why can't you make script callable from any CI?

BR, Jarkko