Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] acpi/tests/bits: add python test that exercizes QEMU bios tables using biosbits

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 04:45:09PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 07:35:13PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 5:12 PM Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 3:48 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 03:37:39PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > OK fine. Lets figuire out how to push bits somewhere in git.qemu.org and
> > > > > > > > > > > the binaries in some other repo first. Everything else hinges on that. We
> > > > > > > > > > > can fix the rest of the bits later incrementally.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > DanPB, any thoughts on putting bits on git.qemu.org or where and how to
> > > > > > > > > > keep the binaries?
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Can we please conclude on this?
> > > > > > > > > Peter, can you please fork the repo? I have tried many times to reach
> > > > > > > > > you on IRC but failed.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Probably because of travel around KVM forum.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I think given our CI is under pressure again due to gitlab free tier
> > > > > > > > limits, tying binaries to CI isn't a great idea at this stage.
> > > > > > > > Can Ani just upload binaies to qemu.org for now?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I agree with Michael here. Having a full ci/cd job for this is
> > > > > > > overkill IMHO. We should create a repo just for the binaries, have a
> > > > > > > README there to explain how we generate them and check in new versions
> > > > > > > as and when needed (it won't be frequent).
> > > > > > > How about biosbits-bin repo?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If QEMU is hosting binaries, where any part contains GPL code, then we
> > > > > > need to be providing the full and corresponding source and the build
> > > > > > scripts needed to re-create the binary. Once we have such scripts it
> > > > > > should be trivial to trigger that from a CI job. If it isn't then
> > > > > > we're doing something wrong.
> > > > >
> > > > > I was thinking of commiting the build scripts in a branch of
> > > > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/biosbits-bits.
> > > > > This would separate them from the main source. The scripts would build
> > > > > a version of qemu-bits based on the version information passed to it
> > > > > from the environment.
> > > > > Before I committed the scripts, I wanted to check whether we would
> > > > > want to do that or have a separate repo containing the binaries and
> > > > > the build scripts.
> > > > > Seems we want the former.
> > > > >
> > > > > As for the gitlab-ci, I looked at the yaml file and the qemu ones
> > > > > looks quite complicated. Can someone help me generate one based on the
> > > > > build script here?
> > > > > https://github.com/ani-sinha/bits/blob/bits-qemu-logging/build-artifacts.sh
> > > >
> > > > Yes, QEMU's rules aren't a good place to start if you're trying
> > > > to learn gitlab CI, as they're very advanced.
> > > >
> > > > The simple case though is quite simple.
> > > >
> > > >   * You need a container image to act as the build env
> > > >   * In 'before_script'  install any packages you need on top of the
> > > >     base container image for build deps
> > > >   * In 'script'  run whatever shell commands you need in order
> > > >     to build the project
> > > >   * Add an 'artifacts' section to publish one (or more) files/dirs
> > > >     as output
> > > >
> > > > The simplest example would be something like
> > > >
> > > >    mybuild:
> > > >      image: fedora:36
> > > >      before_script:
> > > >        - dnf install -y gcc
> > > >      script:
> > > >        - gcc -o myapp myapp.c
> > > >      artifacts
> > > >        paths:
> > > >          - myapp
> > > >
> > >
> > > How does this look?
> > > https://pastebin.com/0YyLFmi3
> > 
> > Alright, .gitlab-ci.yml is produced and the pipeline succeeds.
> > However, the question still remains, where do we keep the generated
> > artifacts?
> 
> The following link will always reflect the published artifacts from
> the most recently fully successful CI pipeline, on the 'qemu-bits'
> branch, and 'qemu-bits-build' CI job:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/biosbits-bits/-/jobs/artifacts/qemu-bits/download?job=qemu-bits-build
> 
> Tweak as needed if you push the CI to master branch instead. This
> link can be considered the permanent home of the artifact. I'd just
> suggest that the QEMU job automatically skip if it fails to download
> the artifact, as occassionally transient infra errors can impact
> it.
> 
> With regards,
> Daniel

This just means once we change the test old qemu source can no longer use it.
Why is this a good idea? Are we so short on disk space? I thought CPU
is the limiting factor?

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