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SIG/AltArch meeting 2025-02-21

Attendees

  • Neil Hanlon
  • Bryan Zuelly
  • Rob Dufalo
  • Sherif Nagy

Discussions

  • New u-boot: 2025.4-rc2
  • Needed to update cross-binutils, cross-gcc, add crust-firmware, and then build uboot-tools
  • Had to disable bpf in cross utils, not sure why
    • [ ] Create ticket about fixing this to re-enable bpf
  • Had to turn off rock5b/rk3358 because of proprietary firmware blobs for the soc
    • Maybe we could provide some script/instructions to help the user use these
  • Upstream work on enabling GPT in u-boot so we don't have to continue maintaining mbr images
    • [ ] Neil and Bryan to work on GPT / u-boot / MBR
  • ARM Board Updates
  • Raspberry Pi - What's going on?
    • Kernel 6.12 vs 6.6
    • RPi foundation 6.12 is not “stable” yet
    • Newer 6.6 release updated and images built / tested
    • Could we build alternative kernel for newer / unstable kernels
      • Limited capacity to maintain
      • [ ] Cross train SIG on kernel maintenance tasks
      • [ ] Write documentation on kernel maintenance tasks
      • No movement on KernelManager/repacker
      • [ ] Neil and Mustafa sync on KernelManager and how to integrate SBC
    • Version 6 of the latest image available, testing wanted
    • [ ] Neil to integrate the image build into empanadas
      • Sherif's PRs not merged yet so need to merge them or use branches
    • Bryan will test with NVME
    • Rob and Brian Clemens have been/will be working on getting the image into the RPi Installer upstream
  • Packaging of scripts/utilities
  • Move rootfs-expand to its own package from sig release package
  • Relocate or remove the wifi fix script from sig release package to a firmware-specific package
    • Investigate if we need these
    • Need to bring in bluez to fix remaining bluetooth issues
    • https://git.resf.org/rocky-linux/board/issues/10
      • Neil will push on this
  • Split kernel-rpi-firmware into its own package instead of building within kernel-rpi
  • RISC-V Updates
  • Neil working on announcement: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/Abjlf7srEFF38ovb3L7y
  • Sherif got his first p550 from Rivos
    • Issues compiling the vendor kernel for rocky 10
    • [ ] Create issue for tracking P550 kernel issues - Sherif
    • Neil will ask around the Fedora RISC-V SIG

Open Floor

  • N/A

Action Items

  • [ ] Write documentation on kernel maintenance tasks
  • [ ] Neil and Mustafa sync on KernelManager and how to integrate SBC
  • [ ] Neil to integrate the image build into empanadas
  • [ ] Create issue for tracking P550 kernel issues - Sherif
  • [ ] Create ticket about fixing this to re-enable bpf
  • [ ] Neil and Bryan to work on GPT / u-boot / MBR
  • [ ] Cross train SIG on kernel maintenance tasks