[RFC] azure: Move to vs2017-win2016 platform build host

[Bin Meng]

Hi Tom,

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 5:23 AM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> Azure is moving to remove the vs2015-win2012r2 platform build host.  The
> two suggested new platforms to use are vs2017-win2016 and windows-2019.
> For now, move up to vs2017-win2016.
>
> Cc: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> ---
> I'm sending this as RFC as it fails to build for i686 but builds for
> x86_64 and I'm out of my depth on fixing that.  Can you please take a
> look Bin?  Thanks!

I've looked at this issue. It was probably caused by the upstream
MSYS2 Windows binary has not been updated to work with win2016 yet.

I tried this patch today, and the Windows host tools build looks goood. See:
https://dev.azure.com/bmeng/GitHub/_build/results?buildId=151&view=results

> ---
>  .azure-pipelines.yml | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/.azure-pipelines.yml b/.azure-pipelines.yml
> index 916ab84ea0c4..a0713dd66c0a 100644
> --- a/.azure-pipelines.yml
> +++ b/.azure-pipelines.yml
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  variables:
> -  windows_vm: vs2015-win2012r2
> +  windows_vm: vs2017-win2016
>    ubuntu_vm: ubuntu-18.04
>    ci_runner_image: trini/u-boot-gitlab-ci-runner:bionic-20200112-17Jan2020
>    # Add '-u 0' options for Azure pipelines, otherwise we get "permission
> --

Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>

Regards,
Bin