[PATCH v9 0/6] Community Lab Containers and Builder Engine

[Aaron Conole]

Adam Hassick <ahassick at iol.unh.edu> writes:

> This patch series contains a new version of the DPDK CI containers. The old
> version was tied very tightly to the Community Lab Infrastructure, so it was
> not suitable for general use. This version is designed to make adding new
> OSes or OS versions as easy as possible. The minimum functionality can easily
> be built on any system that can compile DPDK. It includes support for
> building containers for other non-native architectures (ex: arm containers
> on x86) and for baking ABI references into the images.
>
> The inventory file as added in this patch series defines what the community lab
> currently supports.
>
> If you want to build these yourself, don't try to do parallel Makefile builds
> on non-server hardware. Libabigail is built into the containers, and since it
> is not avaliable in all distros it is compiled from source for many targets.
> If embedding the abi is enabled (DPDK_CI_CONTAINERS_BUILD_ABI=Y), with the
> current settings, DPDK will be compiled twice for every target in the
> inventory file. This will become three times when DPDK main has ABI stability
> again. Due to how the containers are constructed, building on non-native
> architectures is especially expensive because DPDK is compiled with an emulated
> compiler in a qemu vm that only has one thread.
> ---

Applied - thanks!