ci: add github action

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>

Author: arighi

.github/workflows/kernel-build.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+name: Kernel Test
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ "*" ]
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  build-kernel:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Test Kernel on ARM64
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up QEMU for ARM64 emulation
+        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v3
+
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        uses: addnab/docker-run-action@v3
+        with:
+          image: arm64v8/ubuntu:24.04
+          options: --platform linux/arm64
+          run: |
+            echo "==> Update and install build dependencies"
+            apt-get update -y
+            apt-get install -y build-essential flex bison libssl-dev bc \
+              bison busybox-static cmake coreutils virtme-ng \
+              cpio elfutils file gcc git iproute2 jq kbd kmod libcap-dev \
+              libelf-dev libunwind-dev libvirt-clients libzstd-dev \
+              linux-headers-generic linux-tools-common linux-tools-generic \
+              make ninja-build pahole pkg-config python3-dev python3-pip \
+              python3-requests qemu-kvm rsync stress-ng udev zstd \
+              libseccomp-dev libcap-ng-dev llvm-19 clang-19 python3-full curl \
+              bpftrace dwarves
+
+            echo "==> Install latest virtme-ng via pip"
+            pip install --break-system-packages virtme-ng
+
+            echo "==> Build kernel using virtme-ng"
+            vng -vb
+
+            echo "==> Boot kernel and run uname"
+            vng -v -- uname -a

.gitignore

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 # Normal rules (sorted alphabetically)
 #
 .*
+!.github/
 *.a
 *.asn1.[ch]
 *.bin