Hi, Below is the meeting minutes from September 20, 2023's meeting, This week's Oct 4th's meeting minutes has already been sent. Thanks. ----- Sept 20, 2023 Attendees: Davelt, Charles Short, Elaine, Elisamara, Mark, Tianyu, Scott 1. Gerneral Topics 1.1 Split package list between repositories (ISO and container images) * Separation of the list is done per Davlet. * AI: Devlet will check the documentation on package list. [Will bring this up in aother 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 Pre-patched 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 Pre-patched ISOs will generally be the same in that they both have an ostree-repo with a single ostree-commit, the pre-patched 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 updates 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 has some failures. Limited bandwidth. * c. Porting still in progrees (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 implementation., 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 wiki-pages for setting up the build environment for ARM arch: * https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/StarlingX_Debian_on_ARM_Informatio... * https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/DebianArmBuildEnvironment * SPEC file review continues, Kernel SPEC file needs reviewer. * Need more community reviewers. * AI: check with Jackie to see if the porting is finished. * AI: Mark A. would like to review the SPECC before it is committed. * d. Packages for x86_64 is in CENGN, need to push ARM packages there. * Set up the own (CENGN like) website, push the packages to the website as part of CI/CD website (/export/mirror) * Secure-boot 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 4th, 2023