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OpenIPC AI teamandGitHub 9df259cb6f ci: build the KC110 and the Tapo TC70 v3 instead of skipping them (#132)
Both devices have had a complete devices/<dir>/ in this tree for a long time and had
never once been built. #120 froze that state rather than changing it -- it put the 7
defconfigs that were in no master.yml matrix into NOT_BUILT so that a device falling out
of CI would be a test failure instead of a silent skip. Freezing was right for a change
whose job was to not alter what gets built; it was never meant to be permanent for
devices whose only problem is that nobody added the matrix line.

Two contributors did try to add that line. #111 (Tapo TC70 v3, July) and #108 (KC110,
June) both append to the device list in master.yml, which is where the registry lived
when they were written. It does not live there any more -- the matrix is read off the
tree -- so both PRs are merge conflicts now, and the devices they asked for are exactly
the two entries removed here. This is their CI half, landed the way the selector wants
it. #108 also carries a BR2_OPENIPC_MAJESTIC="ultimate" line and a vendor
libsns_ov2735.so for the no-video bug; those are unaffected and stay with that PR.

The two self-test cases that used t31_lite_tp-link-tapo-tc70-v3 as their example of an
unbuilt device move to t31_lite_xiaomi-mjsxj05hl, which is still in NOT_BUILT. The
overlay case also switches to a path that exists, since the device it now names has no
etc/inittab.

Neither device had ever been through a build, so this PR was where we found out. That
was affordable exactly once: a change to ci-matrix.py cannot narrow -- it is what does
the narrowing -- so this ran the full matrix and proved both in the same run. Both are
green:

    Firmware (hi3518ev200_ultimate_tplink-kasa-kc110)   SUCCESS
    Firmware (t31_lite_tp-link-tapo-tc70-v3)            SUCCESS
2026-08-27 21:24:20 +03:00
OpenIPC AI teamandGitHub 6fef62c0f3 ci: watch for drift from firmware instead of finding it by accident (#129)
* ci: watch for drift from firmware instead of finding it by accident

builder.sh copies devices/<item>/* over a fresh firmware clone, so a device
directory that ships its own copy of a firmware file replaces it outright. A
fleet-wide change in firmware reaches every device that only references a path
and none that ships its own copy, silently, because nothing in either repository
is looking. One comment on OpenIPC/firmware#2308 turned up three instances of
that in an afternoon: 13 board configs that missed the CONFIG_VT sweep (#126),
97 defconfigs that kept BR2_PACKAGE_JSONFILTER after firmware retired it and put
three devices over their rootfs cap (#128), and excludes lists naming files that
no longer exist (firmware#2313 reports those at build time).

The trigger is the design. Every one of those was caused by a commit in
firmware while this repository sat untouched, so a pull_request check would
never have fired for any of them -- nobody opens a builder PR when firmware
changes. firmware-drift.yml runs on a schedule and files an issue rather than
failing: drift someone else introduced is not a reason to redden a nightly that
is otherwise fine. Only the self-test gates a merge here, out of lint.yml.

Two checks, because the two kinds of drift are not the same shape.

Shadowed files: comparing content is useless, a builder copy is *supposed* to
differ. What matters is whether firmware's version moved since a human last
reconciled them, so each of the 13 entries pins the blob it was reconciled
against. Re-pinning is the act of looking again. The mapping is hand-authored --
nothing can infer that gk7205v200.generic-fpv derives from gk7205v200.generic.

Defconfig symbols: nothing here copies a firmware defconfig, so pinning does not
apply. Every BR2_PACKAGE_*=y is resolved against buildroot, firmware and this
tree and sorted into "resolves nowhere" (a dead line kconfig ignores) and
"resolves, but no firmware defconfig selects it" (needs an allowlist entry). An
allowlist entry can also fence a symbol to the devices that need it; without
that, writing JSONFILTER down as builder-only for devices/apfpv would equally
bless it creeping back onto 95 unrelated defconfigs, which is #128 verbatim.

Replayed against the three regressions, each reproduced by hand on a clean tree:

    firmware moves a shadowed config
      -> br-ext-chip-goke/board/gk7205v200/gk7205v200.generic.config moved in
         firmware since this copy was reconciled (2026-08-25).
         builder copy: devices/common/.../gk7205v200.generic-fpv.config
         pinned 7450c6803f6d, firmware now f97dce84c0f8
         firmware commits since:
           85233f0e kernel: drop CONFIG_VT and the busybox applets ... (#2308)

    jsonfilter creeps back onto a non-apfpv device
      -> BR2_PACKAGE_JSONFILTER is allowlisted only for apfpv/*/configs/*_defconfig,
         but 1 other defconfig(s) select it.

    firmware retires a symbol builder still selects
      -> BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUBOX is selected here but by no firmware defconfig.

Resolving against buildroot is not optional and getting it wrong is how a
checker lies. Buildroot is vendored by neither repository, so a first pass over
OpenIPC packages alone called HOSTAPD, IW, PHP, UHTTPD, LIBZIP and BWM_NG dead;
all six are upstream. Matching only "Config.in" then called PHP_EXT_ZIP dead,
because buildroot declares php's extensions in package/php/Config.ext. Without
--buildroot that half is skipped and says so rather than inventing findings.

Two symbols really do resolve nowhere today -- BR2_PACKAGE_APFPV_GREG on the
four greg-generic devices and BR2_PACKAGE_WIFIBROADCAST_EXT in devices/common.
Both are recorded as known-dead and reported as a notice on every run rather
than removed: whether those devices still want the packages is a maintainer's
call, not a side effect of adding a check.

The three new paths are classified in ci-matrix.py so this PR and every future
re-pin cost no device builds. Without that a blob update is a 107-device run.

* ci: discover shadowed files instead of listing them by hand

Qodo caught the shadow list omitting the device-local t21 and t31 kernel configs.
It was right, and the hole was much bigger than the five it named: a hand-written
list of 13 board configs against 93 same-path shadows covering 35 firmware paths.
The missing ones are not incidental -- load_goke, load_hisilicon, load_sigmastar
and four vendor .mk files are all shadowed by some device, and those are exactly
the shared files a fleet-wide fix lands in. firmware regression-tests
load_hisilicon's os_mem_size derivation; two devices here ship their own copy of
that script and would not have seen the fix.

Listing them by hand was the wrong shape. builder.sh copies devices/<item>/*
over the firmware clone, so any file at a path firmware also has replaces it --
which makes same-path shadows discoverable rather than something to remember.
discover_shadows() walks devices/ and reports anything sitting on a firmware
path with no entry in firmware-drift.json, so the list cannot silently rot and a
device added tomorrow cannot quietly introduce an unreconciled shadow.

The manifest goes from 13 entries to 101: the 88 discovered ones, plus the 13
hand-authored entries that discovery cannot find because the name differs from
the file they replace -- gk7205v200.generic-fpv shadows gk7205v200.generic, and
nothing can infer that.

Two self-test cases for the new path: a same-path shadow with no entry is
reported, and an entry silences it. Verified against the tree by dropping the
load_hisilicon entries, which surfaces both devices immediately.
2026-08-26 01:27:10 +03:00
OpenIPC AI teamandGitHub 7bfcab91ff ci: stop a NOT_BUILT device widening the matrix to all of them (#127)
NOT_BUILT is documented as the opt-out that narrows to nothing, and a change to
one of those devices' defconfigs does exactly that. Anything else in the same
directory did the opposite: targets_in() only ever returns devices CI builds, so
a directory holding nothing but opted-out devices came back empty and fell
through to the "is in no directory CI builds" widen. Touching a device CI
deliberately skips cost a full 107-device run.

    $ echo devices/gk7205v200_rubyfpv_generic/br-ext-chip-goke/board/\
gk7205v200/gk7205v200.generic-fpv.config | python3 .github/scripts/ci-matrix.py --stdin
    ci-matrix: 107/107 devices (needs_build=True) --- ... is in no directory CI builds

    $ echo devices/gk7205v200_rubyfpv_generic/br-ext-chip-goke/configs/\
gk7205v200_rubyfpv_generic_defconfig | python3 .github/scripts/ci-matrix.py --stdin
    ci-matrix: 0/107 devices (needs_build=False) --- nothing that reaches a build

Same device, same opt-out, opposite answers. #126 touches three NOT_BUILT
devices and is building all 107 because of it.

The empty result was carrying two meanings: "every device here is opted out" and
"this directory is not one I know". Only the second should widen. devices_in()
answers the second question -- it reads directory_of, which is built from every
defconfig in the tree rather than the built subset -- so an unrecognised
directory still widens, which is the half of the rule worth keeping.

Three self-test cases, one per meaning: a kernel config and an overlay file in a
NOT_BUILT device reach nothing, and a devices/ directory with no defconfig at
all still widens. With this, #126's own file list narrows from 107 to 23.
2026-08-25 21:08:13 +03:00
0455db0027 ci: close the if that cost last night's release, and parse-check the rest (#122)
The Collect guard added to the publish job in #121 shipped without its
closing `fi`. Run 32096242353 -- the first nightly to reach the new
single publish job -- built all 107 devices, staged 219 assets, and then
died in `bash -e` with

    line 25: syntax error: unexpected end of file from `if' command on line 14

before writing anything. No nightly-20260818-* release exists, `nightly`
and `latest` still carry the 17th's images, and ci-gate went red. The
gate did its job; there was simply nothing left to publish by then.

Nothing caught it earlier because the publish job carries
`if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'` -- there are no artifacts to
publish on a PR, so the entire path is unreachable from PR CI by
construction. Both of #121's runs were green without ever executing the
step. #121 said as much ("none of this path can run on a pull request")
and checked the four states offline, but offline-checking the logic does
not check that the script parses, and that is what broke.

So the one-line fix, plus the check that would have caught it in seconds
without a runner: lint-workflow-shell.py parses every `run:` block in
.github/workflows/ with `bash -n`, and lint.yml runs it on PRs and on
master pushes that touch either.

Notes on the checker:

- ${{ }} is not shell, so each expression is replaced with a plain word
  first. That is a real limitation -- an expression interpolating shell
  syntax is checked as the word, not as what it expands to -- and the
  substitution preserves line counts so reported lines still point at
  the right line. --self-test asserts an unterminated `if` containing an
  expression is still rejected while the closed form passes, because the
  way this breaks is by making everything pass.

- Steps are found by walking for any mapping with a `run:` key rather
  than by the jobs.*.steps[*] path, so nothing depends on guessing where
  they live, and a discovery floor fails the run if the walk stops
  finding them. A checker that silently checks nothing looks exactly
  like a clean tree.

- Syntax only. It says nothing about quoting or `-e` semantics; a
  shellcheck pass wants per-block disables for the substitution above
  and is a separate change. actionlint would cover more and is worth
  considering later; keeping this narrow is what makes it noise-free now.

ci-matrix.py classifies both new files as no-build. They were names it
had never heard of, and unknown widens by design, so the first push
queued all 107 devices to prove a one-line YAML fix -- #121, which
touched only master.yml, ran 19. This PR still took the full matrix
because it edits ci-matrix.py itself, which always widens; the selector
is not trusted to pick a smaller matrix for its own changes.

PyYAML is installed explicitly rather than inherited from the runner
image, and the workflow declares `contents: read` rather than taking the
repo default. Both from review; neither would have failed the job today.

Verified: the checker flags the merged master.yml with the same message
the runner gave, passes the fixed tree, and all five guard states behave
as #121 intended -- normal night publishes, a broken download and a
green-but-empty dist both fail, and a dead matrix with nothing built
still exits clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 18:44:03 +03:00
edc0a0f88f ci: build pull requests, and only the devices they reach (#120)
* ci: build pull requests, and only the devices they reach

This repo had no pull_request trigger at all. A change landed unbuilt,
and the nightly found out the next morning -- or a user did. Turning PR
CI on meant 107 device builds per push, which is why it stayed off.

Almost every change here is one device: 639 of the file touches in the
last 200 commits sit under a single devices/<dir>/, and the median
commit reaches 2 devices. So narrowing first is what makes PR CI
affordable at all. .github/scripts/ci-matrix.py maps the paths a PR
touches to the devices that build them, and master.yml takes its matrix
from it.

The mapping is not written down, it is read off the tree the same way
builder.sh reads it. builder.sh line 121 locates a device by its
defconfig and copies that WHOLE devices/<dir>/ tree over the firmware
clone, so the devices a file affects are exactly the devices whose
defconfig shares its directory. That distinction is load-bearing:
devices/common/ backs 18 targets and devices/apfpv/ backs 2, and
treating a directory as one device would skip 17 real builds. A
defconfig still names one target even inside a shared directory.

THE NIGHTLY IS NOT NARROWED. builder.sh re-clones OpenIPC/firmware at
HEAD on every run, so what a nightly builds is decided mostly outside
this repo; master.yml already carries the scar of an earlier gate that
skipped on this repo's HEAD and left upstream fixes invisible to users.
Every event except pull_request gets the whole matrix, and --self-test
asserts that for schedule, workflow_dispatch and push.

Nothing on a pull_request may write a release. The three upload steps
were gated only on an image existing, so with a pull_request trigger
added they would have clobbered the published nightly and latest assets
that users flash. They and the Telegram post are now guarded on the
event.

master.yml and check-adjacent plumbing get a 15-device smoke set rather
than all 107: they decide how a build runs, not what it produces.
--self-test enforces the cover -- every vendor, architecture, toolchain
tuple and variant, plus both shared device directories -- rather than
the list, so the set can be re-picked while the property holds. It
already earned itself: the first run rejected my hand-picked set for
missing arm-openipc-linux-gnueabi, which exactly one target in the tree
has, and musleabihf.

Also adds the CI Gate umbrella check, since a dynamic matrix cannot be
named in branch protection and nothing reported a verdict before; and
freezes the 7 defconfigs that exist but are in no matrix, so a device
falling out of CI is a test failure rather than a silent skip.

Replaying the last 200 commits: 20330 device-builds if every PR built
everything, 5930 with the selector, 70.8% less, no coverage leaks. 43
of the 49 that still widen do so on paths that no longer exist
(devices/ssc338q_apfpv/ before it became devices/apfpv/, the old
top-level common/, a deleted builder-local.sh); restricted to commits
whose paths survive, it is 78.2%.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: derive the device list instead of writing it down

Adding a camera IS the work in this repo: 8 of the 10 PRs open right now
add a device, and 14% of recent commits do. With the list written down
in ci-matrix.py, every one of those PRs also had to edit that file --
and a change to that file cannot narrow, because it is what does the
narrowing. So registering one camera cost a full 107-device build to
prove one device. The most common change got the worst outcome.

The matrix is now every defconfig under devices/, minus a NOT_BUILT
opt-out that keeps the 7 already in the tree but out of CI. Adding a
device is creating its directory, nothing else, and it builds exactly
that device.

This is the opposite call to OpenIPC/firmware's ci-matrix.py, on
purpose. There the matrix is curated -- 29 defconfigs are deliberately
never built and boards are not the product -- so an explicit list is the
honest description and an opt-out list would be noise. Here devices are
the product and the list is just "all of them".

The derived matrix is identical to the 107 master.yml carried: nothing
lost, nothing gained. --self-test now checks the opt-outs still name
real defconfigs, so a rename cannot leave a device silently building
under its new name while its old name sits in NOT_BUILT.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci-matrix: own $GITHUB_OUTPUT instead of being redirected into it

The docstring said the default mode writes $GITHUB_OUTPUT; it printed
key=value lines to stdout and left the workflow to redirect them there.
Raised in review on #120.

Fixing the prose would have made the file honest, but the redirect
itself is the weaker half. Under `>> ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}` every print() in
this file is one keystroke away from corrupting the step outputs, and a
crash between the first line and the last leaves a half-written file
that Actions still reads. That the diagnostics go to stderr is what
keeps it safe today -- a rule that has to hold forever, rather than a
property of the code.

So the script appends the three lines itself when $GITHUB_OUTPUT is set,
and prints them when it is not, so a local run still shows its decision.
--stdin never touches the file: it is the mode for reading with your
eyes. master.yml drops the redirect, though leaving one in place would
have been harmless -- with the file written directly, stdout is empty.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 07:05:30 +03:00