Hi,

We had a small turn out in this week's meeting. We skip some general topics due to lack of quorum. Below is the meeting minutes for Oct 18, 2023:

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Oct 18, 2023

Attendees: Mark A., Charles S, Tianyu Li, Linda

General Topics
1.2 Log into the git before download the source.

Skip, Lack of quorum

1.3 Pre-patch ISO:

Skip, Lack of quorum

ARM Support
2.1 Equipment

* Steve gave the addresses for the location of the hosts, 4 in Alameda, and 2 in Ottawa lab.

* ARM is sending those machines to these locations. Steve update the address of the Ottawa office.
* pre-installed? N/A

2.2 CI/CD updates

* CI/CD try to set up the workflow in ARM's local lab (ARM's Shanghai Lab), applied Jackie's patches, but may still need more patches to do builds.
* Tianyu is trying to reproduce the environment in local lab, but still have some error on generating the ISO image.

* Took 20 hours to build the packages. Very time consuming, some time out and driver issues. Some difficult to get to next stage.

* Porting still in progress (Jakie)

* Rewrote the coding to support build system for both x86 and arm

* Build system will detect the arch, and if it is arm, it will build arm arch.

* Wrote up the SPEC on the implementtaion., and now waiting on SPEC to be review

* SPEC review first then will send code for code review.

* Some kernel modules don't work

* QEMU is not working yet. Waiting on kernel up-rev, then and see if QEMU can be fixed then.

* Created 2 wikipages for setting up the build environment for ARM arch:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/StarlingX_Debian_on_ARM_Information_Guide

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/DebianArmBuildEnvironment

SPEC file review continoues, Kernel SPEC file needs reviewer.
Got +2, waiting on the core reviewers before it is commited
Need one more core reivewer to sign off: Scott Camp

d. Packages for x86_64 are in CNGN, need to push ARM packages there.

Set up the own (CNGN like) website, push the packages to the website as part of CI/CD website (/export/mirror)
Secureboot is disabled for now. Will do it in the future.
ELF SDK is used to build image. Need to push the SDK to CNGN, no permission to push to CNGN yet, it is on local disk.
AI: Need to provide permission to Jackie so that he can push ELF 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 StarlingX repo, but its in github repo. fork it.. do a pull request to github lab for any changes.
meta-lat used is with the WR's repo, not community one. Will migrate later.
e. OSTree
removing OSTree from the installer ISO. (not from the StarlingX)
Work in progress, not sure when it will be ready. Possible early next year, StarlingX 9.

3. StarlingX 8.0

SPEC from Chuck on OSTree generation on the controller, pending review.
Work is in progress.

Next Meeting: Nov 1, 2023