SIG/AltArch meeting 2023-11-03

Attendees

Discuss meeting time - ~~biweekly~~ monthly.
- https://www.when2meet.com/?22213293-gYJPM
  - Send out to channel asking for people to put in their availability for the first week of December
  - Going forward we will repeat the meeting monhtly on the first whatever day of the month we choose
Document decisions from last time
- https://sig-altarch.rocky.page/events/meeting-notes/2023-10-20/#decisions
  - Neil to make ticket to encompass updating the SIG documentation (purpose, how to join and participate, our decisions, etc)
Create tickets for work on boards
- Neil will create tickets in sig_altarch/meta for all of these
  - Configure upstream monitoring for releases of new packages (uboot) - Neil
    - this is the "Maintenance - Importing dependencies from Fedora/EPEL" bit
    - https://release-monitoring.org/
    - https://pagure.io/centos-sig-hyperscale/package-updates/blob/main/f/package_updates

Fix missing packages for uboot in rocky 8 (Sherif)
- two packages need to be rebuilt
- can these be PRed to Fedora or UBoot?
  - Bryan will look into opening a PR with Fedoras
    - Neil can help with the 'how'
    - https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/uboot-tools1
      - Login w/ Fedora account, can create a fork and then open a PR against the main repo
    - 0d07de7701
GenericArm image
- Would like to release "officially" w/ 9.3 and 8.9 building using empanadas

Bryan working on the Libre Tritium H5 (ALL-H3-CC (H5))
- Progressing well, will need to open an issue to add config to elrepo kernel
Rockchip status -
- Sherif was working to add new Rockchip boards, but needs to rebase his PR against latest mainline
  - Will need help testing as he only has the RockPro64
- Probably first week of december
- Some libre boards are also rockchip (Renegade)
- Long term, we can have a single unified kernel (yay!)
Kernel LTS
- Pablo and Sherif working on this.
Kernel ML
- Need to work with Mustafa on this (Neil)
- some things have regressed in Kernel Packer
Update configuration in ELRepo for rockchips
- Sherif to rebase later

Should we make the Mainline kernel the default kernel for the SIG/Altarch GenericArm image? ** need to resolve before new 8 and 9 releases **
- Probably yes, but we'll circulate this. Neil will create a ticket.