CI All Things!

[LeStarch]

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Feature Description

More improvements that can be made to CI!

• Various FW_CONFIG options
• Baremetal support
• RPI CI reboot on failure: the RPI CI setup often fails for reasons unknown that a reboot of the pi fixes. It could auto reboot on failure and require less hand-holding.
• Configuration flags (FpConfig.hpp)
  ...more will be added

[SterlingPeet]

reminder to myself that I need to gather up some hardware

[ThibFrgsGmz]

Maybe it would be interesting to put in the CI the construction of a reference binary from several buildchain.

From what I could see, this is a good practice for software trying to support different architectures, like ThreadX which has in its CI the build with Cortex-M0/3/4/7.

If we follow this logic, it could be interesting to add in the CI the build of the reference binary with the following buildchain (for example):

• ARM R5 g++ compiler/linker (cortex-R5 baremetal): armr5-none-eabi-g++
• ARM v8 Linux g++ compiler/linker (cortex-A53 linux): aarch64-linux-gnu-g++
• ARM v8 g++ compiler/linker (cortex-A9 baremetal) : arm-none-eabi-g++
• GNU RISC-V Cross C++ compiler/binder (baremetal): riscv64-unknown-elf-g++
• GNU ARM Cross C++ compiler/associator (cortex-M3 baremetal): arm-none-eabi-g++.

Cortex-A53 and Cortex-R5 are integrated on the Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC platforms from Xilinx.

RISC-V is used on the Polarfire SoC from Microchip.

Then, for the execution of the unit tests associated with these cross-compiled binaries, they can be performed on emulators like QEMU or Renode.

[LeStarch]

That is the dream, but first we need solid toolchain implementations for these platforms...

[LeStarch]

#1443 has another CI improvement.

[matt392code]

Toolchain implementation for ARM R5 (Cortex-R5)
Set up the cross-compiler toolchain structure:
arm-r5-os-support.txt
Create the platform-specific configuration for F Prime:
arm-r5-platform.txt
Create a basic platform support layer:
arm-r5-os-support-1.txt

This implementation provides:
Toolchain Configuration:

• Sets up ARM cross-compiler
• Configures appropriate compiler flags for Cortex-R5
• Enables hardware floating-point unit
• Sets up optimization flags

Platform Configuration:

• Defines platform-specific settings
• Configures memory management
• Sets up bare metal scheduler options
• Defines hardware-specific parameters

OS Support Layer:

• Platform initialization
• Bare metal scheduling
• Memory management
• Task creation and management
• Hardware-specific features

To use this:
Install the required tools:

sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi
sudo apt-get install binutils-arm-none-eabi
sudo apt-get install libnewlib-arm-none-eabi

Configure your build:

cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=toolchain-arm-r5.cmake -DPLATFORM=arm-r5 ..

Build the project:

make