[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] doc: Add documentation for how to build U-Boot host tools

[Bin Meng]

Hi Tom,

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 10:10 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 09:50:57AM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 2:20 AM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 09:27:25AM -0700, Bin Meng wrote:
> > >
> > > > This adds a reST document for how to build U-Boot host tools,
> > > > including information for both Linux and Windows.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > So here's where I think things get interesting.  Off the top of my head,
> > > I think we can use the free GitLab.com-provided hosts of which there are
> > > Windows-based ones (we would need to do some labeling of jobs so that
> > > most things only run on our Linux hosts but one job runs on the Windows
> > > infra).  I'm less sure we can do such a matrix with Travis.  But is
> > > there some way we could get this Windows tool build into CI and thus
> > > keep it from breaking in the future?  Thanks!
> >
> > Yes, I would like to have GitLab CI to do the Windows build for us.
> > However I did not find the free GitLab.com-provided hosts. Any hints?
>
> Yeah, OK, I was wrong.  You have to be on gitlab.com and they don't have
> Windows.  And I don't know enough Windows to figure out how to automate
> going from a Microsoft-provided free VirtualBox image to having that
> have GitLab Runner also installed.

Ah that's bad we can't find a GitLab hosted free Windows VM.

So I looked at Microsoft Azure pipeline and it looks we can set up a
free account for U-Boot.
See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-pipelines-with-unlimited-ci-cd-minutes-for-open-source/

Regards,
Bin