added ci job to test f1 driver build

.github/scripts/build-f1-driver.py

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+from fabric.api import *
+
+from common import manager_fsim_dir, set_fabric_firesim_pem
+
+def run_sim_driver():
+    """Runs compilation of F1 driver for the make-default tuple"""
+
+    with cd(manager_fsim_dir + "/sim"), prefix('source ../env.sh'):
+        run("make f1")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    set_fabric_firesim_pem()
+    execute(run_sim_driver, hosts=["localhost"])

.github/workflows/firesim-run-tests.yml

@@ -161,9 +161,20 @@ jobs:
       - name: Check docs components that require manual re-generation (e.g. config_runtime.yaml example, help output)
         run: ./.github/scripts/check-docs-generated-components.py
 
+  build-f1-driver:
+    name: build-f1-driver
+    needs: [setup-manager]
+    runs-on: ${{ github.run_id }}
+    env:
+      TERM: xterm-256-color
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Runs compilation of F1 driver for the make-default tuple
+        run: ./.github/scripts/build-f1-driver.py
+  
   run-test-groupA:
     name: run-test-groupA
-    needs: [setup-manager]
+    needs: [build-f1-driver]
     runs-on: ${{ github.run_id }}
     env:
       TERM: xterm-256-color