litex tests: Improve GitHub CI action

Improve up GitHub action by bumping software versions, use cache to preserve tool builds, and use Clang to speed up verilator.

Dec 18 '24 19:12 FlyGoat

Thanks a lot @FlyGoat. Would you mind having the ci.yml changes in another PR? I'm trying to synchronize changes for this between teh different repositories, so will maybe have more delay to look at it.

Dec 19 '24 15:12 enjoy-digital

@enjoy-digital Done, would you be interested to test multiple Python versions with CI? I can implement it as well if you are planning to sync the change between repos.

Thanks

Dec 20 '24 14:12 FlyGoat

Hi @enjoy-digital,

Do you mind help me to merge those PRs so I can wire up those cores in CI?

https://github.com/litex-hub/pythondata-cpu-picorv32/pull/1 https://github.com/litex-hub/pythondata-cpu-mor1kx/pull/2 https://github.com/litex-hub/pythondata-cpu-cv32e40p/pull/3

Or maybe add me to litex-hub so I can help with maintaining pythondata packages :-)

Jan 10 '25 19:01 FlyGoat

Hi @FlyGoat,

sorry, I just sent you an invite to be able to merge things directly. Feel free to merge these kind of PR directly. In case of doubt, feel free to ask, I'll try to be more reactive :)

Jan 10 '25 21:01 enjoy-digital

@enjoy-digital Thanks a lot! I'll get those sorted.

Jan 10 '25 21:01 FlyGoat

Hi @enjoy-digital,

This is ready for review. I'll look into individual failures after getting this merged.

Thanks

Jan 12 '25 19:01 FlyGoat