Files
bfe-core1106-sdk/docs/decisions/0007-public-repo-hosted-kernel-build.md
BFE Engineering 42fb386f60 docs: ASCII typography and style normalization across all repo text
Replace every em dash with real punctuation (rewrites, not hyphen swaps)
in docs, code comments, scripts, configs, and the port records; convert
en dashes, curly quotes, ellipsis glyphs, arrows, and section signs to
ASCII; drop machine-writing tell phrases from living docs. ADR titles
now use a colon. The M2 bring-up DTS model string carried an em dash
into the patch series and its record echoes; fixed at both, and the full
series re-verified to apply cleanly onto pristine 6.18.46. One comment
in freshness.h deliberately names the em dash glyph the UI renders as
the unknown mark; that is data, kept as prose naming it.

Verified: cargo tests (sim, config-lint, rs485-bridge), shellcheck,
both driver MC/DC harnesses, patches-apply.
2026-08-31 12:31:27 -06:00

2.0 KiB

ADR 0007: Hosted-Only CI

Status: Accepted (2026-08-30). Supersedes the runner half of ADR-0004.

Context

The repo is going public (free Actions minutes for hosted runners; open-source alignment with the stack philosophy). Two facts change the ADR-0004 calculus:

  1. A self-hosted runner on a public repo is a standing hazard. A fork PR can modify workflow files; once any run of theirs is approved, workflows can target the repo's registered self-hosted runners, i.e. arbitrary code on the private host, which also serves production. GitHub's own guidance is to never attach self-hosted runners to public repos, and personal-account repos have no runner groups to scope the risk away.
  2. The build never needed the SDK host. ADR-0004's premise ("needs the SDK toolchain and Buildroot's baked-in absolute paths") does not apply to kernel-build: the hermetic build is freestanding, uses Debian's gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf, and self-provisions python. It fits a hosted runner (4 vCPU / 16 GB), and public-repo minutes are free.

Decision

kernel-build runs on ubuntu-latest, apt-installing its toolchain, kernel build deps, and qemu-system-arm, with the pristine tarball cached like patches-apply does. It stays workflow_dispatch-only for now (a full build per push is still noisy; flipping it to push-on-main later is one line). The warden-sdk self-hosted runner instance is deregistered from this repo before it goes public; the flare and flare-edge runner instances on the same host are unaffected (those repos stay private).

Consequences

  • No path from public workflows to private infrastructure; nothing to babysit in fork-PR approval settings beyond GitHub's defaults (still set "require approval for all outside contributors" as belt-and-braces).
  • Kernel artifacts no longer persist on the runner host; the GitHub artifact (5-day retention + prune job) is the only build output channel.
  • Hosted kernel builds are slower than the 0640 box but free and parallel; the boot-smoke step rides along unchanged.