cargo xflowey
To implement various developer workflows (both locally, as well as in CI), the
OpenVMM project relies on flowey
: a custom, in-house Rust library/framework
for writing maintainable, cross-platform automation.
cargo xflowey
is a cargo alias that makes it easy for developers to run
flowey
-based pipelines locally.
Some particularly notable pipelines:
cargo xflowey build-igvm
- primarily dev-tool used to build OpenHCL IGVM files locallycargo xflowey ci checkin-gates
- runs the entire PR checkin suite locallycargo xflowey restore-packages
- restores external packages needed to compile and run OpenVMM / OpenHCL
xflowey
vs xtask
In a nutshell:
cargo xtask
: implements novel, standalone tools/utilitiescargo xflowey
: orchestrates invoking a sequence of tools/utilities, without doing any non-trivial data processing itself