wiki/docs/events/meeting-notes/2024-02-23.md

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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
  • Should we include non-altarch (x86_64) SBCs in our list of what works?
  • 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