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On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Jim Rollenhagen's message of 2016-08-10 09:21:41 -0400:
>> 2) A number of drivers do not have third-party CI up, let alone reporting
>>    on patches. Unless someone moves quickly, I strongly suspect the following
>>    drivers will be dropped from our tree before the end of Newton. These are
>>    the setup.cfg names.
>>
>>       agent_amt
>>       pxe_amt
>>       fake_amt
>>       agent_iboot
>>       pxe_iboot
>>       fake_iboot
>>       agent_wol
>>       pxe_wol
>>       fake_wol
>>       agent_vbox
>>       fake_vbox
>>       pxe_vbox
>
> Do these three need to be 3rd-party? Virtualbox is free software available
> in at least Ubuntu, so in theory these could just be tested by regular
> CI. I understand it's intended for windows boxes that can't easily use
> the SSH variants, but I wonder if it's meaningful enough to run Linux
> based CI to verify the functionality?

Yes, that's certainly possible. We already run a lot of jobs in CI so
I don't want to add too many jobs, but I'd be fine with adding a vbox job.
If someone wants to do that work this cycle, I'd be happy to keep that
driver in tree (but I honestly don't have time to do it myself).

// jim