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SIG/AltArch meeting 2023-11-03

Attendees

  • Sherif
  • Bryan
  • Neil Hanlon

Old Business

  • Discuss meeting time - ~~biweekly~~ monthly.
    • https://www.when2meet.com/?22213293-gYJPM
      • Send out to channel asking for people to put in their availability for the first week of December
      • Going forward we will repeat the meeting monhtly on the first whatever day of the month we choose
  • Document decisions from last time
    • https://sig-altarch.rocky.page/events/meeting-notes/2023-10-20/#decisions
      • Neil to make ticket to encompass updating the SIG documentation (purpose, how to join and participate, our decisions, etc)
  • Create tickets for work on boards
    • Neil will create tickets in sig_altarch/meta for all of these
      • Configure upstream monitoring for releases of new packages (uboot) - Neil
        • this is the "Maintenance - Importing dependencies from Fedora/EPEL" bit
        • https://release-monitoring.org/
        • https://pagure.io/centos-sig-hyperscale/package-updates/blob/main/f/package_updates

New Business

  • Fix missing packages for uboot in rocky 8 (Sherif)
    • two packages need to be rebuilt
    • can these be PRed to Fedora or UBoot?
      • Bryan will look into opening a PR with Fedoras
        • Neil can help with the 'how'
        • https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/uboot-tools1
          • Login w/ Fedora account, can create a fork and then open a PR against the main repo
        • https://git.rockylinux.org/sig/altarch/src/uboot-tools/-/commit/0d07de7701b023c642a4d776852e05cb6bd3318e
  • GenericArm image
    • Would like to release "officially" w/ 9.3 and 8.9 building using empanadas

Open Floor / Discussions

  • Bryan working on the Libre Tritium H5 (ALL-H3-CC (H5))
    • Progressing well, will need to open an issue to add config to elrepo kernel
  • Rockchip status -
    • Sherif was working to add new Rockchip boards, but needs to rebase his PR against latest mainline
      • Will need help testing as he only has the RockPro64
    • Probably first week of december
    • Some libre boards are also rockchip (Renegade)
    • Long term, we can have a single unified kernel (yay!)
  • Kernel LTS
    • Pablo and Sherif working on this.
  • Kernel ML
    • Need to work with Mustafa on this (Neil)
    • some things have regressed in Kernel Packer
  • Update configuration in ELRepo for rockchips
    • Sherif to rebase later

Next Meeting

  • Should we make the Mainline kernel the default kernel for the SIG/Altarch GenericArm image? ** need to resolve before new 8 and 9 releases **
    • Probably yes, but we'll circulate this. Neil will create a ticket.