Re: non-x86 runners in the Gitlab-CI (was: Re: [PATCH 12/12] configure: bump min required CLang to 7.0.0 / XCode 10.2)

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 12/05/2021 15.47, Willian Rampazzo wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 8:54 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/05/2021 13.44, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> On 5/11/21 3:26 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>>> Several distros have been dropped since the last time we bumped the
>>>> minimum required CLang version.
>>>>
>>>> Per repology, currently shipping versions are:
>>>>
>>>>                RHEL-8: 10.0.1
>>>>        Debian Stretch: 7.0.1
>>>>         Debian Buster: 7.0.1
>>>>    openSUSE Leap 15.2: 9.0.1
>>>>      Ubuntu LTS 18.04: 10.0.0
>>>>      Ubuntu LTS 20.04: 11.0.0
>>>>            FreeBSD 12: 8.0.1
>>>>             Fedora 33: 11.0.0
>>>>             Fedora 34: 11.1.0
>>>>
>>>> With this list Debian Stretch is the constraint at 7.0.1
>>>>
>>>> An LLVM version of 7.0.1 corresponds to macOS XCode version of 10.2
>>>> which dates from March 2019.
>>>
>>> But we still rely on Travis-CI (Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 LTS)
>>> for non-x86 targets until we have figured out who is willing
>>> to share/maintain such non-x86 native runners on Gitlab.
>>
>>    Hi Cleber,
>>
>> by the way, what's the status of your patch series to get the dedicated CI
>> machines (s390x, aarch64, ...) running in our Gitlab-CI? AFAIK the last
>> iteration of your patches has been weeks ago, so I wonder whether you could
>> finally send a new version with the requested fixes included? ... this topic
>> slowly gets more and more urgent now that our Travis-CI is in process of
>> dying...
> 
> I don't know if you saw this:
> https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/billing-overview/#partner-queue-solution.
> 
> tl;dr, Travis now has support from partners to run non-x86 arch. It is
> always good to have a plan B, like qemu own CI runners, but, at least,
> with these non-x86 arch available on Travis, we will have some time to
> breathe.

Uh, that's what we're already using in our travis.yml ... but I guess you've 
rather missed:

  https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown

and on travis-ci.com, the CI minutes are not for free anymore. At least not 
for the QEMU project. Or do you know of a sponsor who is going to pay the CI 
minutes for us there?

  Thomas