[U-Boot] [RFC] travis-ci: source for grub*.efi
Hello Tom,
currently we extract grub*.efi either from Ubuntu or from Suse packages and use these for test/py/tests/test_efi_loader.py. This implies that we do not have test files for architectures that are not supported by Ubuntu and Suse, i.e. RISC-V. Furthermore any change in the packages may hit us.
One solution is to host the grub*.efi files on gitlab.denx.de. Due to the GPL license this would require also to keep a copy of the GRUB code and the scripts we use to create the grub*.efi files.
Another possibility is to build the files on the fly in Travis like we do for QEMU. But I think this is a waste of build time.
Best regards
Heinrich
On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 10:11:13AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
Hello Tom,
currently we extract grub*.efi either from Ubuntu or from Suse packages and use these for test/py/tests/test_efi_loader.py. This implies that we do not have test files for architectures that are not supported by Ubuntu and Suse, i.e. RISC-V. Furthermore any change in the packages may hit us.
One solution is to host the grub*.efi files on gitlab.denx.de. Due to the GPL license this would require also to keep a copy of the GRUB code and the scripts we use to create the grub*.efi files.
Another possibility is to build the files on the fly in Travis like we do for QEMU. But I think this is a waste of build time.
One thought I have here is that with the switch to GitLab hosted by DENX, we should look at configuring jobs such that we can perhaps pass artifacts around? Then just have a project that is "just" a clone of GRUB and does the build we need to have EFI binaries we need. This would cover the GPL needs and be a little cleaner looking.
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Tom Rini