Booting distros in CI

[Ilias Apalodimas]

Hi all

On Wed, 28 May 2025 at 12:35, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

If anyone else wants to have a look I don't mind.
commit df11ac859d has enough information, but the tl;dr is that we can
boot a live image over the network now as long as the kernel is
compiled with

CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API
CONFIG_OF_PMEM
CONFIG_DEV_DAX_PMEM
CONFIG_ARM64_PMEM
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PMEM
CONFIG_ARM64_PMEM
CONFIG_DEV_DAX_PMEM

Cheers
/Ilias

>
> Regards,
> SImon
>
>
> > --
> > Tom