When investigating a regression that lives in OpenIPC/firmware (or its
referenced packages like hisilicon-opensdk) but only manifests in a
builder build, you previously had to either roll firmware master back
or fork builder.sh manually. Adds a clean way:
gh workflow run build-one.yml -f platform=hi3516ev200_fpv \
-f firmware_ref=<sha-or-tag-or-branch>
The workflow exports OPENIPC_FW_REV as env, which builder.sh now
honours: when set, it does a full clone (not --depth=1) and checks
out the requested ref before invoking the firmware build. When unset,
behaviour is unchanged (shallow clone of master HEAD).
Immediate motivation: bisect the +180 KB rootfs growth in
hi3516ev200_fpv between 2026-05-08 (5016 KB) and 2026-05-24 (5196 KB,
76 KB over partition limit). Per kaeru
'hi3516ev200-ev300-fpv-rootfs-size-overflow-2026-05-24'. Suspect is
recent hisilicon-opensdk bumps that brought in source-built sensor
drivers for ev200; bisect across firmware commits varying
HISILICON_OPENSDK_VERSION will pinpoint which bump pushed us past
the 5120 KB limit.
Generally useful long after this specific incident:
- Reproducing user-reported regressions at a specific firmware tag.
- Locking builds to a known-good firmware revision when builder is
ahead of firmware.
- Future cross-repo bisects of any kind.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
