Update GitHub action to perform check for Cortex-A ports

Author: TiejunZhou-CN

.github/workflows/ports_arch_check.yml

@@ -15,11 +15,12 @@ on:
       - 'ports/**'
       - 'ports_modules/**'
       - 'ports_smp/**'
+      - 'ports_arch/**'
 
 # A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
 jobs:
-  # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
-  build:
+  # Check ports for cortex-m
+  cortex-m:
     # The type of runner that the job will run on
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
@@ -41,5 +42,28 @@ jobs:
           exit 1
         fi
 
+  cortex-a:
+    # Check ports for cortex-a
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+
+    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
+    steps:
+    # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
+    - name: Checkout sources recursively
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      with:
+        token: ${{ secrets.REPO_SCOPED_TOKEN }}
+        submodules: true
+
+    # Copy ports arch
+    - name: Copy ports arch
+      run: |
+        cd ports_arch/ARMv7-A
+        pwsh -Command ./update.ps1 -PortSets tx -CopyCommonFiles -CopyPortFiles -CopyExample -PatchFiles
+        if ((git status --porcelain) -ne "") {
+          Write-Host "Ports for ARM architecture is not updated"
+          Exit 1
+        }
+
 
 

ports_arch/ARMv8-A/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# ARMv8-A architecture ports
+
+The ThreadX, ThreadX SMP, ThreadX Modules and ThreadX SMP Modules ports for ARMv8 share many files in common. To make work more efficient these files are internally tracked only once and copied over to specific ports for users.
+