Re: [PATCH 10/12] CI: Introduce debian:11/12-riscv64 containers

[Oleksii <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2024-07-12 at 13:30 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 12/07/2024 12:39 pm, Oleksii wrote:
> > On Thu, 2024-07-11 at 12:15 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > > For starters, they're slightly smaller:
> > > 
> > >   $ docker image list <snip>
> > >   registry.gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/debian      12-
> > > riscv64        
> > > 772MB
> > >   registry.gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/debian      11-
> > > riscv64        
> > > 422MB
> > Do we really need both 11-riscv64 and 12-riscv64?
> 
> Need? No, not strictly.
> 
> Want? Yes, absolutely.
> 
> You always want at least 2 different toolchains worth of testing, or
> what you will find happens is that you end up accidentally depending
> on
> a quirk of the single compiler your using, and that you discover this
> at
> some point in the future, rather than now(ish) when CI says no.
> 
> At the moment, the RISC-V builds are very trivial and quick, so it
> makes
> a lot of sense to have a second toolchain.  Before too much longer,
> you'll want to get Clang working too.
Agree, I should consider to add Clang. I will do that in the one of my
nearest patch series.

~ Oleksii