RE: [PATCH 0/4] hexagon: Add Docker image & testing to gitlab-ci

[Taylor Simpson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philippe.mathieu.daude@gmail.com> On
> Behalf Of Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2021 4:23 PM
> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Cc: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>; Taylor Simpson
> <tsimpson@quicinc.com>; Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>;
> Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>; Alessandro Di Federico
> <ale.qemu@rev.ng>; Brian Cain <bcain@quicinc.com>; Philippe Mathieu-
> Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> Subject: [PATCH 0/4] hexagon: Add Docker image & testing to gitlab-ci
>
> Hi,
>
> This series is a rework of the 'Add Dockerfile for hexagon' patch
> from Alessandro/Brian that Taylor sent in v8:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg780330.html
> but adapted to mainstream.
>
> Gitlab shared runner are usually capped to 2/4 cores and timeout
> after 2h30 to 3h. We need a beefy custom runner to get the image
> built and stored in the registry. For now the image is added in
> manual mode, hopping we'll have magic runners added some day to
> build the image, then developers can directly pull it from the
> registry.

Thanks a ton for doing this.

Do I understand correctly that someone will manually run the toolchain build 
scripts to create the container and others will be able to use the prebuilt 
container after that?

Taylor