add meeting minutes for 2024-02-09, 2024-02-23

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# SIG/AltArch meeting 2024-02-09
## Attendees
* Neil Hanlon
* Sherif Nagy
* Brian Clemens
* Stack
## Follow Ups
* Raspberry Pi5
* need 16k page kernel variant created
```
--# diff config-6.1.0-rpi7-rpi-2712 config-6.1.0-rpi7-rpi-v8
31c31
< CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-v8-16k"
---
> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-v8"
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< CONFIG_ARM64_PAGE_SHIFT=14
< CONFIG_ARM64_CONT_PTE_SHIFT=7
< CONFIG_ARM64_CONT_PMD_SHIFT=5
< CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN=16
< CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX=30
< CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN=9
---
> CONFIG_ARM64_PAGE_SHIFT=12
> CONFIG_ARM64_CONT_PTE_SHIFT=4
> CONFIG_ARM64_CONT_PMD_SHIFT=4
> CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN=18
> CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX=24
> CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN=11
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< # CONFIG_ARM64_4K_PAGES is not set
< CONFIG_ARM64_16K_PAGES=y
---
> CONFIG_ARM64_4K_PAGES=y
> # CONFIG_ARM64_16K_PAGES is not set
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< # CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_36 is not set
< CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_47=y
---
> CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_39=y
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< CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS=47
---
> CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS=39
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< CONFIG_ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER=12
---
> CONFIG_ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER=11
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> CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP=y
```
* Post-setup changes required to select which one user should boot
* i.e., change initramfs / kernel lines to -v8 in config.txt / config-kernel.txt
* https://chat.rockylinux.org/rocky-linux/pl/e7h9sqcb4pdnpqpwah3wcjxjac
* Neil and Sherif spoke to risc-v folks at FOSDEM/SOOCon24
* No exact timeline, but hoping to get leads on hardware to use
## Open Floor
* Stack: the wiki looks abandoned because the index page is empty/stubbed
## Action Items
* Follow up on Orange Pi5
* Follow up on Libre boards
* Create variant for 16k kernel
* Kernel Packer for altarch
* Actually put content on wiki index/landing page so it doesn't look abandoned

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# SIG/AltArch meeting 2024-02-23
## Attendees
* Neil Hanlon
* Sherif Nagy
* Brian Clemens
* Stack
* Alan Sill
## Follow Ups
* SBC Support - We're close on a lot of the boards we aim to support (Orange Pi, Libre boards, Rock Pro, RPi5, etc)
* Raspberry Pi5
* Needs 16k kernel variant
* arm-trusted-firmware in staging for 8 and 9
* please test, adds support for some SBCs we target
* RISC-V - Communications ongoing with RISC-V foundation for firmware
* What else do we want aside from what they may be able to give us?
## Open Floor
* Alan has Turing Pi boards to run his Pis--would be nice to be able to test these
* Jeff Geerling did a video recently on Turing Pi cluster board
* "little clusters" -- just shared NFS, works ok. needs to be NVME because of i/o thrashing, though
* Stack: there has been a lot of interest in SBCs in Rocky the past few months
* Would be good to have a plan to convert interested parties to contributors
* we have a lot of SBC $$$ to spend on HW for folks
* Roadmap & Status -- What do we support, who supports it, what works/doesn't work
* https://git.resf.org/testing/SBC-progress-tracking
* Risc-V
* Alan has [Lichee Pi 4a](https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/lichee/th1520/lc4a/lc4a.html) | https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a
* Should we include non-altarch (x86_64) SBCs in our list of what works?
* They work out of the box (for the most part), so, let's just include them
* https://radxa.com/products/x/x2l/#techspec - GPIO via a Pico
* Alan wants to get this running under Rocky at some point
* also looking at https://www.mixtile.com/cluster-box/
* Stack: Grace Hopper?
* seems to be only debian from NVidia
* Brian: Yoshi (CIQ) may have a contact that knows more information about Grace Hopper and Rocky
* Sherif: Intel GPU update
* Met with them through HPC SIG (Jeremy)
* DKMS version first for testing
* Later: signed for secureboot and installable as kmod package (kernel SIG)
* User tools in HPC SIG
* NVIDIA -- maybe we can talk to them after we show this working well, collaborate
* Needs legal review and sign-off from NVIDIA
* many questions about this... e.g. How can we trust signing a proprietary blob for SB signing?
* Stack's SBC tower: https://52pi.com/products/52pi-rack-tower-acrylic-cluster-case-for-raspberry-pi-12-layer?_pos=21&_sid=39b8f5ea0&_ss=r
## Action Items
* Neil to reach out to Equinix regarding arm hw for altarch
* Neil to reply to RV folks
* Neil to look into wiki content population
* Neil to file ticket to investigate kernel packer to repack upstream RPi kernel
* Neil to work on SBC Kernel variant config in KernelPacker
* Sherif to work on Raspberry Pi kernel variants