Re: [PATCH-for-8.0] gitlab-ci: Remove job building EDK2 firmware binaries

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 13/3/23 03:09, Bin Meng wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 9:50 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
> <philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/3/23 14:38, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 at 13:33, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> When we introduced this Gitlab-CI job in commit 71920809ce
>>>> ("gitlab-ci.yml: Add jobs to build EDK2 firmware binaries"),
>>>> the naive plan was to have reproducible binaries by downloading
>>>> what this job would build, testing it and eventually committing
>>>> it. With retrospective, nothing happened 3 years later and this
>>>> job is just bitrotting:
>>>>
>>>>     Step 1/3 : FROM ubuntu:18.04
>>>>     18.04: Pulling from library/ubuntu
>>>>     mediaType in manifest should be
>>>>     'application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json' not
>>>>     'application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json'
>>>>
>>>> Remove this job to avoid wasting maintenance and CI ressources.
>>>
>>> Does the same thing hold for the opensbi job ?
>>
>> Cc'ing Bin, I have no idea.
>>
> 
> The OpenSBI job now builds fine. I have no preference on keeping vs.
> removing it.
> 
> I remember our previous goal was to create CI jobs for every pc-bios
> image but apparently that never happened.

Yes, and I don't see interest in the community (neither worry that
pc-bios/ images committed are built on each maintainer workstations).

If it isn't consumed by QEMU, then better remove that job and save
precious CI minutes. I presume OpenSBI itself is already tested
by its mainstream project.