Re: [PATCH 2/3] .gitlab-ci.d: Drop cross-win32-system job

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 at 12:21, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> > Is there a reason why we aren't covering those in Windows
> > builds?
>
> I think it came down to the Windows builds being particularly prone to
> timing out and these targets being fairly niche. Do we really expect to
> catch build failures here that the other more featured targets wont?

In my experience, yes, the weirdo host platforms (big-endian,
32-bit, Windows, BSD) are the ones that developers won't be
testing on and that we therefore want to have CI for the full
range of target configs on. It's safer to skip niche targets
on non-niche hosts (read x86-64 Linux) because you can be
reasonably sure the niche-target developers test on that host.

thanks
-- PMM