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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC XEN PATCH 00/23] xen: beginning support for RISC-V



On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 04:02:56PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> 
> We have https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/pipelines which runs a load
> of containerised builds.  How easy is it to set up a containerised
> RISC-V cross-compiler environment?
> 

It's pretty easy.  I personally use a Docker container that has the bins
built from source from both the RISC-V gcc toolchain and QEMU.

> The test step also boots Xen under Qemu software emulation to check that
> we don't have any boot-time screamers.  A reasonable second step might
> be to have start_xen() panic() at the end, and check for that in the
> console log, which would allow for some kind of boot testing before
> getting all the way to "and here is dom0 ready to run".
> 
> All configuration is in .gitlab-ci.yml and automation/.
> 

That sounds ideal and like a perfect place to start.

Thanks!
-Bobby

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