Hi,

Below is the Meeting Minutes for OS Distro & Multi-OS meeting minutes on September 20: (Please ignore if this is a duplicate)

Sept 20, 2023

Attendees: Davelt, Charles Short, Elaine, Elisamara, Mark, Tianyu, Scott

1. Gernerl Topics

1.1 Split package list betweeen repositories (ISO and container images)

Separeation of the list is done per Davlet.
~~AI: Devlet will check the documentation on package list.~~ [Will need to bring this up in other forums, and will not track in this meeting]
1.2 Log into the git before download the source.
How to pass the credential through the tooling layer when log into git repo.
workaround: currently use repo sync outside of the containers.
AI: Scott to write up a feature request for the tool - file a request in Story Board.
Created: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2010777, (create a jira for it)
1.3 Pre-patch ISO:
The Prepatched ISO will contain an ostree-repo with a ‘single’ commit containing the final state of the rootfs after all the patches have been applied
i.e. note that for size reasons, we should not have a commit for each patch and metadata for all the patches that have been applied.
In summary, the GA ISO and Prepatched ISOs will generally be the same in that they both have an ostree-repo with a single ostree-commit, the prepatched iso
will have the GA content + all patches and will use apt-ostree (Charles Short).
Open Questions: How to patch grub and other files that are not managed by ostree
A: this is covered in the OSTree documentation. OSTree can cover the /boot directory when needed.

2. ARM Support

a. Equipment
Steve gave the addresses for the location of the hosts, 4 in Alameda, and 1 in Ottawa lab, 1 remains to confirm.
ARM is sending those machines to these locations. Steve update the address of the Ottawa office.
pre-installed?
b. 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 failures. Limited bandwidth.
c. Porting still in progreess (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.
Need more community reviewers.
AI: check with Jackie to see if the porting is finished.
AI: Mark A. will like to review the SPECC before it is commited.
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: Oct 4, 2023