Booting distros in CI

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Mon, 26 May 2025 at 15:51, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 03:10:49PM +0100, Simon Glass wrote:
>
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > What do you think about having a Linux distro in the docker image so
> > we could run a 'boot' test in CI without needing my lab?
> >
> > Alpine Linux has an image which is about 250MB.
>
> I did say we should be doing this in some other thread we had, so yes, I
> think it's a good concept. Ilias I believe has been telling me about
> some HTTP (or HTTPS) boot pipeline Linaro has for a while, and with
> Adriano's patch to add a simple web server to CI too, yes, a pytest
> doing that would be a good next step forward. I'm sure we can find some
> sufficient and small stock images to fetch and use.

As discussed on the call, Ilias / team is planning to take a look at
this, so I'll hold off for a few months on anything here from my own
side.

Regards,
SImon


> --
> Tom