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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+# Copyright Roger Meier <r.meier@siemens.com>
+
+# build U-Boot on Travis CI - https://travis-ci.org/
+
+sudo: required
+dist: trusty
+
+language: c
+
+addons:
+  apt:
+    packages:
+    - cppcheck
+    - sloccount
+    - sparse
+    - bc
+    - build-essential
+    - libsdl1.2-dev
+    - python
+    - python-virtualenv
+    - swig
+    - libpython-dev
+    - iasl
+    - grub-efi-ia32-bin
+    - rpm2cpio
+    - wget
+    - device-tree-compiler
+    - lzop
+
+before_install:
+ - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y
+ - sudo apt-get update -q
+ - sudo apt-get install libisl15 -y
+
+install:
+ # Clone uboot-test-hooks
+ - git clone --depth=1 git://github.com/swarren/uboot-test-hooks.git /tmp/uboot-test-hooks
+ - ln -s travis-ci /tmp/uboot-test-hooks/bin/`hostname`
+ - ln -s travis-ci /tmp/uboot-test-hooks/py/`hostname`
+ # prepare buildman environment
+ - echo -e "[toolchain]\nroot = /usr" > ~/.buildman
+ - echo -e "arc = /tmp/arc_gnu_2017.09_prebuilt_uclibc_le_archs_linux_install" >> ~/.buildman
+ - echo -e "\n[toolchain-alias]\nsh = sh2\n" >> ~/.buildman
+ - cat ~/.buildman
+ - virtualenv /tmp/venv
+ - . /tmp/venv/bin/activate
+ - pip install pytest
+ - grub-mkimage -o ~/grub_x86.efi -O i386-efi normal  echo lsefimmap lsefi lsefisystab efinet tftp minicmd
+ - mkdir ~/grub2-arm
+ - ( cd ~/grub2-arm; wget -O - http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/suse/armv7hl/grub2-arm-efi-2.02~beta2-87.1.armv7hl.rpm | rpm2cpio | cpio -di )
+ - mkdir ~/grub2-arm64
+ - ( cd ~/grub2-arm64; wget -O - http://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/suse/aarch64/grub2-arm64-efi-2.02~beta2-87.1.aarch64.rpm | rpm2cpio | cpio -di )
+
+env:
+  global:
+    - PATH=/tmp/qemu-install/bin:/tmp/uboot-test-hooks/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
+    - PYTHONPATH=/tmp/uboot-test-hooks/py/travis-ci
+    - BUILD_DIR=build
+    - HOSTCC="cc"
+    - HOSTCXX="c++"
+
+before_script:
+  # install toolchains based on TOOLCHAIN} variable
+  - if [[ "${TOOLCHAIN}" == *m68k* ]]; then ./tools/buildman/buildman --fetch-arch m68k ; fi
+  - if [[ "${TOOLCHAIN}" == *microblaze* ]]; then ./tools/buildman/buildman --fetch-arch microblaze ; fi
+  - if [[ "${TOOLCHAIN}" == *mips* ]]; then ./tools/buildman/buildman --fetch-arch mips ; fi
+  - if [[ "${TOOLCHAIN}" == *or32* ]]; then ./tools/buildman/buildman --fetch-arch or32 ; fi
+  - if [[ "${TOOLCHAIN}" == *sh* ]]; then ./tools/buildman/buildman --fetch-arch sh2 ; fi
+  - if [[ "${TOOLCHAIN}" == *x86_64* ]]; then
+      ./tools/buildman/buildman --fetch-arch x86_64;
+      echo -e "\n[toolchain-prefix]\nx86 = ${HOME}/.buildman-toolchains/gcc-7.3.0-nolibc/x86_64-linux/bin/x86_64-linux-" >> ~/.buildman;
+    fi
+  - if [[ "${TOOLCHAIN}" == arc ]]; then
+       wget https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/toolchain/releases/download/arc-2017.09-release/arc_gnu_2017.09_prebuilt_uclibc_le_archs_linux_install.tar.gz &&
+       tar -C /tmp -xf arc_gnu_2017.09_prebuilt_uclibc_le_archs_linux_install.tar.gz;
+    fi
+  - if [[ "${TOOLCHAIN}" == *xtensa* ]]; then
+       wget https://github.com/foss-xtensa/toolchain/releases/download/2018.02/x86_64-2018.02-${TOOLCHAIN}.tar.gz &&
+       tar -C /tmp -xf x86_64-2018.02-${TOOLCHAIN}.tar.gz &&
+       echo -e "\n[toolchain-prefix]\nxtensa = /tmp/2018.02/${TOOLCHAIN}/bin/${TOOLCHAIN}-" >> ~/.buildman;
+    fi
+  # If TOOLCHAIN is unset, we're on some flavour of ARM.
+  - if [[ "${TOOLCHAIN}" == "" ]]; then
+       ./tools/buildman/buildman --fetch-arch arm &&
+       ./tools/buildman/buildman --fetch-arch aarch64;
+    fi
+  - if [[ "${TOOLCHAIN}" == "powerpc" ]]; then ./tools/buildman/buildman --fetch-arch powerpc; fi
+  - if [[ "${TOOLCHAIN}" == "riscv" ]]; then
+       ./tools/buildman/buildman --fetch-arch riscv64;
+       echo -e "\n[toolchain-alias]\nriscv = riscv64" >> ~/.buildman;
+    fi
+  - if [[ "${QEMU_TARGET}" != "" ]]; then
+       git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git /tmp/qemu;
+       pushd /tmp/qemu;
+       git submodule update --init dtc &&
+       git checkout v2.8.0-rc3 &&
+       ./configure --prefix=/tmp/qemu-install --target-list=${QEMU_TARGET} &&
+       make -j4 all install;
+       popd;
+    fi
+
+script:
+ # Comments must be outside the command strings below, or the Travis parser
+ # will get confused.
+ #
+ # Exit code 129 means warnings only.
+ - if [[ "${BUILDMAN}" != "" ]]; then
+     ret=0;
+     tools/buildman/buildman -P -E ${BUILDMAN} || ret=$?;
+     if [[ $ret -ne 0 && $ret -ne 129 ]]; then
+       tools/buildman/buildman -sdeP ${BUILDMAN};
+       exit $ret;
+     fi;
+   fi
+ # "not a_test_which_does_not_exist" is a dummy -k parameter which will
+ # never prevent any test from running. That way, we can always pass
+ # "-k something" even when $TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC doesnt need a custom
+ # value.
+ - export UBOOT_TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR=`cd .. && pwd`/.bm-work/${TEST_PY_BD};
+   cp ~/grub_x86.efi $UBOOT_TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/;
+   cp ~/grub2-arm/usr/lib/grub2/arm-efi/grub.efi $UBOOT_TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/grub_arm.efi;
+   cp ~/grub2-arm64/usr/lib/grub2/arm64-efi/grub.efi $UBOOT_TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/grub_arm64.efi;
+   if [[ "${TEST_PY_BD}" != "" ]]; then
+     ./test/py/test.py --bd ${TEST_PY_BD} ${TEST_PY_ID}
+       -k "${TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC:-not a_test_which_does_not_exist}"
+       --build-dir "$UBOOT_TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR";
+     ret=$?;
+     if [[ $ret -ne 0 ]]; then
+       exit $ret;
+     fi;
+   fi;
+   if [[ -n "${TEST_PY_TOOLS}" ]]; then
+     PYTHONPATH="${UBOOT_TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/scripts/dtc/pylibfdt"
+     PATH="${UBOOT_TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/scripts/dtc:${PATH}"
+     ./tools/binman/binman -t &&
+     ./tools/patman/patman --test &&
+     ./tools/buildman/buildman -t &&
+     PYTHONPATH="${UBOOT_TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/scripts/dtc/pylibfdt"
+     PATH="${UBOOT_TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/scripts/dtc:${PATH}"
+     ./tools/dtoc/dtoc -t;
+   fi
+
+matrix:
+  include:
+  # we need to build by vendor due to 50min time limit for builds
+  # each env setting here is a dedicated build
+    - name: "buildman arc"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="arc"
+          TOOLCHAIN="arc"
+    - name: "buildman arm11 arm7 arm920t arm946es"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="arm11 arm7 arm920t arm946es"
+    - name: "buildman arm926ejs (non-mx,siemens,atmel,kirkwood)"
+      env:
+        - JOB="arm926ejs"
+          BUILDMAN="arm926ejs -x mx,siemens,atmel,kirkwood"
+    - name: "buildman atmel"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="atmel"
+    - name: "buildman boundary engicam toradex"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="boundary engicam toradex"
+    - name: "buildman Freescale ARM32"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="freescale -x powerpc,m68k,aarch64"
+    - name: "buildman Freescale AArch64"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="freescale&aarch64"
+    - name: "buildman i.MX6 (non-Freescale)"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="mx6 -x freescale,toradex,boundary,engicam"
+    - name: "buildman i.MX (non-Freescale,i.MX6,toradex)"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="mx -x freescale,mx6,toradex"
+    - name: "buildman k2"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="k2"
+    - name: "buildman samsung socfpga"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="samsung socfpga"
+    - name: "buildman sun4i"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="sun4i"
+    - name: "buildman sun5i"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="sun5i"
+    - name: "buildman sun6i"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="sun6i"
+    - name: "buildman sun7i"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="sun7i"
+    - name: "buildman sun8i"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="sun8i"
+    - name: "buildman sun9i"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="sun9i"
+    - name: "buildman sun50i"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="sun50i"
+    - name: "buildman catch-all ARM"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="arm -x arm11,arm7,arm9,aarch64,atmel,freescale,kirkwood,mvebu,siemens,tegra,uniphier,mx,samsung,sunxi,am33xx,omap,pxa,rockchip,toradex,socfpga,k2,xilinx"
+    - name: "buildman sandbox x86"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="sandbox x86"
+          TOOLCHAIN="x86_64"
+    - name: "buildman kirkwood (excluding openrd)"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="kirkwood -x openrd"
+    - name: "buildman mvebu"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="mvebu"
+    - name: "buildman PXA (non-toradex)"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="pxa -x toradex"
+    - name: "buildman m68k"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="m68k"
+          TOOLCHAIN="m68k"
+    - name: "buildman microblaze"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="microblaze"
+          TOOLCHAIN="microblaze"
+    - name: "buildman mips"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="mips"
+          TOOLCHAIN="mips"
+    - name: "buildman non-Freescale PowerPC"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="powerpc -x freescale"
+          TOOLCHAIN="powerpc"
+    - name: "buildman mpc85xx&freescale (excluding many)"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="mpc85xx&freescale -x t208xrdb -x t4qds -x t102* -x p1_p2_rdb_pc -x p1010rdb -x corenet_ds -x b4860qds -x bsc91*"
+          TOOLCHAIN="powerpc"
+    - name: "buildman t208xrdb corenet_ds"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="t208xrdb corenet_ds"
+          TOOLCHAIN="powerpc"
+    - name: "buildman Freescale PowerPC"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="t4qds b4860qds mpc83xx&freescale mpc86xx&freescale"
+          TOOLCHAIN="powerpc"
+    - name: "buildman t102*"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="t102*"
+          TOOLCHAIN="powerpc"
+    - name: "buildman p1_p2_rdb_pc"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="p1_p2_rdb_pc"
+          TOOLCHAIN="powerpc"
+    - name: "buildman p1010rdb bsc91"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="p1010rdb bsc91"
+          TOOLCHAIN="powerpc"
+    - name: "buildman siemens"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="siemens"
+    - name: "buildman tegra"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="tegra -x toradex"
+    - name: "buildman am33xx (no siemens)"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="am33xx -x siemens"
+    - name: "buildman omap"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="omap"
+    - name: "buildman uniphier"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="uniphier"
+    - name: "buildman catch-all AArch64"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="aarch64 -x tegra,freescale,mvebu,uniphier,sunxi,samsung,rockchip,xilinx"
+    - name: "buildman rockchip"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="rockchip"
+    - name: "buildman sh"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="sh -x arm"
+          TOOLCHAIN="sh"
+    - name: "buildman Xilinx (ARM)"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="xilinx -x microblaze"
+    - name: "buildman xtensa"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="xtensa"
+          TOOLCHAIN="xtensa-dc233c-elf"
+    - name: "buildman riscv"
+      env:
+        - BUILDMAN="riscv"
+          TOOLCHAIN="riscv"
+
+    # QA jobs for code analytics
+    # static code analysis with cppcheck (we can add --enable=all later)
+    - name: "cppcheck"
+      script:
+        - cppcheck --force --quiet --inline-suppr .
+    # search for TODO within source tree
+    - name: "grep TODO"
+      script:
+        - grep -r TODO .
+    # search for FIXME within source tree
+    - name: "grep FIXME HACK"
+      script:
+        - grep -r FIXME .
+    # search for HACK within source tree and ignore HACKKIT board
+      script:
+        - grep -r HACK . | grep -v HACKKIT
+    # some statistics about the code base
+    - name: "sloccount"
+      script:
+        - sloccount .
+
+    # test/py
+    - name: "test/py sandbox"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="sandbox"
+          BUILDMAN="^sandbox$"
+          TOOLCHAIN="x86_64"
+    - name: "test/py sandbox_spl"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="sandbox_spl"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="test_ofplatdata"
+          BUILDMAN="^sandbox$"
+          TOOLCHAIN="x86_64"
+          TEST_PY_TOOLS="yes"
+    - name: "test/py sandbox_flattree"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="sandbox_flattree"
+          BUILDMAN="^sandbox_flattree$"
+          TOOLCHAIN="x86_64"
+    - name: "test/py vexpress_ca15_tc2"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="vexpress_ca15_tc2"
+          TEST_PY_ID="--id qemu"
+          QEMU_TARGET="arm-softmmu"
+          BUILDMAN="^vexpress_ca15_tc2$"
+    - name: "test/py vexpress_ca9x4"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="vexpress_ca9x4"
+          TEST_PY_ID="--id qemu"
+          QEMU_TARGET="arm-softmmu"
+          BUILDMAN="^vexpress_ca9x4$"
+    - name: "test/py integratorcp_cm926ejs"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="integratorcp_cm926ejs"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="not sleep"
+          TEST_PY_ID="--id qemu"
+          QEMU_TARGET="arm-softmmu"
+          BUILDMAN="^integratorcp_cm926ejs$"
+    - name: "test/py qemu_arm"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="qemu_arm"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="not sleep"
+          QEMU_TARGET="arm-softmmu"
+          BUILDMAN="^qemu_arm$"
+    - name: "test/py qemu_arm64"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="qemu_arm64"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="not sleep"
+          QEMU_TARGET="aarch64-softmmu"
+          BUILDMAN="^qemu_arm64$"
+    - name: "test/py qemu_mips"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="qemu_mips"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="not sleep"
+          QEMU_TARGET="mips-softmmu"
+          BUILDMAN="^qemu_mips$"
+          TOOLCHAIN="mips"
+    - name: "test/py qemu_mipsel"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="qemu_mipsel"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="not sleep"
+          QEMU_TARGET="mipsel-softmmu"
+          BUILDMAN="^qemu_mipsel$"
+          TOOLCHAIN="mips"
+    - name: "test/py qemu_mips64"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="qemu_mips64"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="not sleep"
+          QEMU_TARGET="mips64-softmmu"
+          BUILDMAN="^qemu_mips64$"
+          TOOLCHAIN="mips"
+    - name: "test/py qemu_mips64el"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="qemu_mips64el"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="not sleep"
+          QEMU_TARGET="mips64el-softmmu"
+          BUILDMAN="^qemu_mips64el$"
+          TOOLCHAIN="mips"
+    - name: "test/py qemu-ppce500"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="qemu-ppce500"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="not sleep"
+          QEMU_TARGET="ppc-softmmu"
+          BUILDMAN="^qemu-ppce500$"
+          TOOLCHAIN="powerpc"
+    - name: "test/py qemu-x86"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="qemu-x86"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="not sleep"
+          QEMU_TARGET="i386-softmmu"
+          BUILDMAN="^qemu-x86$"
+          TOOLCHAIN="x86_64"
+          BUILD_ROM="yes"
+    - name: "test/py zynq_zc702"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="zynq_zc702"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="not sleep"
+          QEMU_TARGET="arm-softmmu"
+          TEST_PY_ID="--id qemu"
+          BUILDMAN="^zynq_zc702$"
+    - name: "test/py xtfpga"
+      env:
+        - TEST_PY_BD="xtfpga"
+          TEST_PY_TEST_SPEC="not sleep"
+          QEMU_TARGET="xtensa-softmmu"
+          TEST_PY_ID="--id qemu"
+          BUILDMAN="^xtfpga$"
+          TOOLCHAIN="xtensa-dc233c-elf"
+
+# TODO make it perfect ;-r
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