CI news September 2021 (RISC-V, illumos)

[Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>
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> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:24:39 +0100
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> Hello list.
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> This is a semi-periodic summary of recent developments in the continuous
> integration space of the tcpdump group.
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> It took a few months since Francois-Xavier Le Bail discovered this
> opportunity, but finally the Buildbot setup includes a hardware RISC-V
> worker, which runs on an Allwinner Nezha D1 development board provided
> by RISC-V International. [1] The OS (Fedora Linux) currently comes from
> Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. [2]
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> Another new Buildbot worker is an AMD64 VM running the OpenIndiana
> 2021.04 distribution of illumos. This derives from my earlier
> experiments with Solaris 11/AMD64, which may not be used in this CI
> setup due to licence conditions. Overall research in this direction has
> already identified a few issues in tcpdump and libpcap, some of which
> still remain to be addressed.
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> The Buildbot master has been migrated from SQLite3 to MariaDB. The
> database size has been slowly growing since the service start and
> recently reached around 0.5GB, most of which accounts for the build
> logs. Now the web-interface feels a bit more responsive and should be
> easier to scale in future if necessary.
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> 1: https://riscv.org/risc-v-developer-boards/
> 2: http://www.iscas.ac.cn/
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>     Denis Ovsienko
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