May 31, 2023            * AI: to invite Carlos Pocahy to this meeting to discuss Pre-patch ISO. (lwang8: Ping Carlos and his manager to make sure he attends)

2. ARM Support

• Send email to the mailing list on

• How to review the packages list for CENGN build

• CENGN: move to another provider. Early development don't expect anything for at least 2 months.

• Wind River willl be provide it. Will be available via Wind River Lab.

• Ampere would liketo provide 6 servers

• They like to know where the new location is, so that they can send the servers to the new location?

• AI#1: Scott will talk to his manager to see where the new location is, to share with Jackie and ARM.

• We do NOT have rack space or power for the proposed equipment at this time.

• Porting still in progress

• Work with ARM company and help them and setup it up in their lab.

• all packages built, started with StartlingX 8.0 master for ARM.

• RT kernel still failed to build

• for ARM Build, we also need to re-generate container image for ARM arch. For container images, we push them to docker hub, and StartlingX.

• AI#2: Sent email to StartlingX mailing list to get temporay access to his own docker hub. [Done]

• push to staging area first to gain confidence.

• Packages for x86_64 are in CNGN, need to push ARM packages there.. how to do so?

• ELF SDK is used to build image. Need to push the SDK to CNGN.

• Need to change meta-lat layer for ELF SDK, but want to link the task to different repo, but can't. 

• meta-lat layer is not in the StartlingX repo, but its in github repo. fork it.. do a pull request to github lab for any changes.

• How to moderate source code, add the machine-type = aarch 64/arm, add another name for UIO for ARM.

• AI#3 Jackie need to discuss how to use these naming mechanism.

• AI#4 also the branching name. How to build ARM branch in addition to X86_64.

• 'Build server stats' email, Scott replied to the email on the mailing list:

• Build server recommendation: At least 4 disks, and 12 T storage space, 128 G memory. possible ram disk for builds

• AI#5 Test server config: Scott will check with QA team to provide needed info.

• 3.0 StartlingX 8.0

• ISO size bigger than 4G 

• Resolved with option parameters passing into ISO build.

• AI#6: Need to look at the existing scripts to implement this functionality

• 3.1 SPEC to be written by Mark regarding new direction for the kernel, possibly to use the newer version of Debian kernel

• Proposal is to have kernel to track Debian version.

• 3.2 SPEC from Chuck on OSTree generation on the controller, pending review.

 

June 14, 2023

Attendees: Davlet, Mark, Charles. Linda, Juanita

Open Infrastructure Conference week. No quorum

June 28, 2023

 Attendees: Davlet, Mark, Linda, Charles

 Due to lack of attendees, No quorum today.

Next Meeting: 
July 12, 2023