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)

[Willian Rampazzo]

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.

>
>   Thomas
>