[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] Bring all testings in gitlab and travis CI to Azure Pipelines

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:08:33PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 9:44 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 05:28:25AM -0700, Bin Meng wrote:
> >
> > > This expands current Azure Pipelines Windows host tools build
> > > testing to cover all the CI testing in gitlab and travis CI.
> > >
> > > Note for some unknown reason, the 'container' cannot be used for
> > > any jobs that have buildman, for buildman does not exit properly
> > > and hangs the job forever. As a workaround, we manually call
> > > docker to run the image to perform the CI tasks.
> > >
> > > A complete run on Azure Pipelines takes about 2 hours and 10
> > > minutes.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> >
> > Thanks for doing the work.  I will kick things such that we can have
> > this run automatically, regularly.  My only concern is, are we unable to
> > have a world build split like on GitLab?  The matrix of "break jobs up
> > such that it stays under 50 minutes" is one of the pain points to Travis
> > and I'd like to avoid that with Azure if we can as well.
> 
> I think we can do the same world build split like on GitLab. However I
> suspect a complete run will take much more time compared to GitLab.
> Based on my testing I see each job is a 2-core VM with 8GiB memory,
> not as powerful as current GitLab CI runner machine. Although the free
> Azure account can support up to 360 minutes per job, having the same
> world build split loses the chance to do more parallelism utilizing
> the free 10 jobs.

Ah, OK.  In that case, yes, mirroring Travis is a reasonable starting
point and trying to further optimize from there can be done.

-- 
Tom
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