Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] .azurepipelines: Enable CI for OvmfPkg and EmulatorPkg

["Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 19:11, Sean via Groups.Io
<sean.brogan=microsoft.com@groups.io> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:04 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> Is there any way I could contribute ArmVirtQemu to this? Or would it
> be easier if I provided comments/instructions?
>
> Either way.
> Any instructions you provide would be great.  I was going to hack something up for feedback but happy for someone else to do it.   Let me know.

OK, so the typical invocation would be

qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a57 -m 1024 -net none
-nographic -bios .../path/to/QEMU_EFI.fd -hda
fat:rw:.../path/to/startup.nsh

The only complication compared to OVMF is that there is no separate
serial port for debug output vs console output, so everything is going
to come out of the same pipe, and grep'ing the console output for
meaningful strings may easily result in false positives. (-pflash
could be used as well, but doesn't really add anything in this case,
and QEMU for ARM has a quirk where pflash images must be exactly 64 MB
in size)

>
> Basically add the platform and pipeline yml here
> https://github.com/spbrogan/edk2/tree/ci-for-ovmf/.azurepipelines/platforms
>
> Then i have been leveraging PyTools to build and script operations.
> So something like this.  https://github.com/spbrogan/edk2/blob/ci-for-ovmf/OvmfPkg/PlatformBuild.py
>
> A little bit of help in this readme.
> https://github.com/spbrogan/edk2/blob/ci-for-ovmf/OvmfPkg/README-pytools.md
>

Thanks. But can I get these actions to trigger from my branch as well?
Or do I need special powers for that?