tuxsuite 0.23.0

The fun Linux kernel development service

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TuxSuite, by Linaro, is a suite of tools and services to help with Linux kernel development. The TuxSuite CLI (this repo) is the supported interface to TuxBuild and TuxTest.

To request access, email us at [e-mail] or fill out our access request form.

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Introduction

The TuxSuite CLI supports two services: TuxBuild and TuxTest.

TuxBuild

TuxBuild is an on demand API for building massive quantities of Linux kernels in parallel. It is used at scale in production by LKFT and ClangBuiltLinux as well as many individual Linux kernel engineers.

TuxBuild is accessed by running tuxsuite build and tuxsuite build-set.

TuxTest

TuxTest is an on demand API for testing Linux kernels reliably and quickly. It is currently in Alpha phase and will soon be available to TuxBuild users.

Install and Configure

Install using pip

TuxSuite requires Python version 3.6 or greater, and is available using pip.

To install tuxsuite on your system globally:

sudo pip3 install -U tuxsuite

To install tuxsuite to your home directory at ~/.local/bin:

pip3 install -U --user tuxsuite

To upgrade tuxsuite to the latest version, run the same command you ran to install it.

Install using docker

tuxsuite is also available as a docker container at tuxsuite/tuxsuite.

For example, to run tuxsuite via docker:

docker run tuxsuite/tuxsuite tuxsuite build --help

Setup Config

The Authentication token needs to be stored in ~/.config/tuxsuite/config.ini. The minimal format of the ini file is given below:

$ cat ~/.config/tuxsuite/config.ini
[default]
token=vXXXXXXXYYYYYYYYYZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZg

Alternatively, the TUXSUITE_TOKEN environment variable may be provided.

If you do not have a tuxsuite token, please reach out to us at [e-mail].

Examples

tuxsuite build

Submit a build request using the tuxsuite command line interface. This will wait for the build to complete before returning by default.

tuxsuite build --git-repo 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git' --git-ref master --target-arch arm64 --kconfig defconfig --toolchain gcc-9

tuxsuite build-set

Create a tuxsuite config file with a basic set of build combinations defined.

cat <<EOF > basic.yaml
sets:
  - name: basic
    builds:
      - {target_arch: arm,    toolchain: gcc-9,    kconfig: multi_v7_defconfig}
      - {target_arch: arm,    toolchain: gcc-10,   kconfig: multi_v7_defconfig}
      - {target_arch: arm,    toolchain: clang-10, kconfig: multi_v7_defconfig}
      - {target_arch: arm64,  toolchain: gcc-9,    kconfig: defconfig}
      - {target_arch: arm64,  toolchain: gcc-10,   kconfig: defconfig}
      - {target_arch: arm64,  toolchain: clang-10, kconfig: defconfig}
      - {target_arch: i386,   toolchain: gcc-9,    kconfig: defconfig}
      - {target_arch: i386,   toolchain: gcc-10,   kconfig: defconfig}
      - {target_arch: x86_64, toolchain: gcc-9,    kconfig: defconfig}
      - {target_arch: x86_64, toolchain: gcc-10,   kconfig: defconfig}
      - {target_arch: x86_64, toolchain: clang-10, kconfig: defconfig}
      - {target_arch: arc,    toolchain: gcc-10,   kconfig: hsdk_defconfig}
      - {target_arch: riscv,  toolchain: gcc-10,   kconfig: defconfig}
      - {target_arch: mips,   toolchain: gcc-10,   kconfig: ci20_defconfig}
EOF
# Build the build set defined in the config file named 'basic.yaml'
tuxsuite build-set --git-repo 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git' --git-ref master --tux-config basic.yaml --set-name basic

All the parameters can be specified in the build-set itself and invoke tuxsuite "tuxsuite build-set --tux-config <basic>.yaml --set-name <set-name>"

Projects and Developers using tuxsuite

• LKFT - Linaro's Linux Kernel Functional Testing uses tuxsuite with gitlab-ci to continuously build upstream Linux kernels. The kernels are then functionally tested on a variety of hardware using LAVA.
• ClangBuiltLinux uses TuxBuild to validate hundreds of combinations of Linux kernels and LLVM environments.
• Lee Jones uses a GitLab CI pipeline to validate his 3.18 kernel maintainership. The gitlab pipeline, tuxsuite config, and README.md documenting its setup are defined in the kernel-pipeline repository.

Community and Support

The TuxSuite team may be engaged through chat, email, or gitlab issues.

To chat with us, join our public Discord, or our IRC channels #tuxsuite and #tuxmake on freenode.net.

Questions, comments or feedback are always welcome by private email at [e-mail].

Finally, gitlab issues are used to track bugs and feature requests in both tuxsuite and tuxmake projects.