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Re: MAINTAINERS: macOS host support (was: MAINTAINERS: take edk2)


From: Christian Schoenebeck
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: macOS host support (was: MAINTAINERS: take edk2)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:00:35 +0100

On Mittwoch, 9. März 2022 12:44:16 CET Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 11:40:42AM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> > On Mittwoch, 9. März 2022 11:05:02 CET Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > > Not sure what you have in mind. I'm totally new to the macOS/Darwin
> > > world, and have no choice but to use it as primary workstation and
> > > for CI builds, so I can help with overall testing / maintenance.
> > > 
> > > Peter, since you take some macOS patches, would you like to maintain
> > > this officially? Since I doubt you want to take yet another
> > > responsibility, what about having a co-maintained section, including
> > > technical expertise from Akihiko / Joelle / Christian? (Cc'ed)
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > 
> > Also CCing Cameron on this, just in case someone at Apple could spend some
> > slices on QEMU macOS patches in general as well.
> > 
> > As for my part: I try to help out more on the macOS front. As there's now
> > macOS host support for 9p I have to start QEMU testing on macOS locally
> > anyway. Too bad that macOS CI tests on Github are no longer available BTW.
> 
> Note QEMU gets macOS CI coverage in GitLab. We use a clever trick by
> which we use 'cirrus-run' from the GitLab job to trigger a build in
> Cirrus CI's macOS builders, and pull the results back when its done.
> 
> Any contributor can get this working on their QEMU fork too, if they
> configure the needed Cirrus CI API token. See the docs in
> 
>    .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus/README.rst
> 
> This is enough for build + automated tests.

Does this mean that people no longer have to pull their credit card just for 
running CI tests on Gitlab?

And as this approach seems to use an indirection with Cirrus CI via Github. 
Will it be sufficient to just run QEMU CI jobs on Github?

Why have the previously existing QEMU CI jobs been pulled from Github anyway?

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck





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