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)

From: Willian Rampazzo <wrampazz@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Stefan Weil" <sw@weilnetz.de>,
	"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
	"Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Ademar Reis Jr" <areis@redhat.com>
Subject: 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)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 10:59:03 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKJDGDbye98ftCQSrPbPTR6nrH9m54BupD+pZKkSCuqTYkt7BA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93b24ba1-0898-250f-0f8c-87bc08934220@redhat.com>

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 10:56 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>

The link I posted tells arm and s390x will still be free for OSS projects.

From that page:

IBM CPU builds in IBM Cloud (sponsored by IBM)
ARM64 CPU builds in Equinix Metal (former Packet) infrastructure
(sponsored by ARM)

Willian

>   Thomas
>