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 # SIG/Kernel Wiki

-## Links
+The Kernel Special Interest Group focuses on maintaining mainline and long-term support kernels for Rocky Linux with additional configuration flags enabled for support of the latest hardware and features.

-* https://git.rockylinux.org/sig/kernel/
-* https://peridot.build.resf.org/708f99fe-7e89-4241-959a-4ff259786b4a 
-* https://peridot.build.resf.org/13172560-6e5d-4e65-ae71-750f99096856
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-## Responsibilities

 ## Meetings / Communications

+SIG/Kernel meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 14:00 UTC on [Jitsi](https://meet.jit.si/SoleHumanitiesInspireDelicately)
+
 ## Members

 * Sherif Nagy
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 * Neil Hanlon
 * Pratham Patel

-## Project layout
+## Links

-    mkdocs.yml    # The configuration file.
-    docs/
-        index.md  # The documentation homepage.
-        ...       # Other markdown pages, images and other files.
+* https://git.rockylinux.org/sig/kernel/ - dist-git
+* https://git.resf.org/sig_kernel/ - Wiki, issues, etc
+* https://peridot.build.resf.org/13172560-6e5d-4e65-ae71-750f99096856 - Peridot - SIG Kernel 8
+* https://peridot.build.resf.org/708f99fe-7e89-4241-959a-4ff259786b4a - Peridot - SIG Kernel 9
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+# SIG/Kernel meeting 2023-11-30
+
+## Attendees
+
+* Sherif Nagy
+* Neil Hanlon
+* Pratham Patel
+* Mustafa Gezen
+* Pablo Greco
+
+## Discussions
+
+* This SIG does have some overlap with SIG/Altarch
+    * Altarch was expecting to base on elrepo
+    * Two options: mainline and LTS. Default to Mainline
+* Two kernels right now:
+    * LTS - manual, done by Pablo
+    * Mainline - kernel packer in Peridotv2
+        * standard config from upstream doesn't support a lot of our SBCs
+        * intending to stay as close to upstream as possible
+            * Upstream == fedora rawhide branch's RHEL configs
+        * ** Can we build a kernel-mainline artifact for altarch. e.g., kernel-mainline-sbc like kernel-rt/64ka **
+            * Alternatively, we can create a new package for that name, but that is probably a lot of rework (?)
+* ELrepo contributions
+    * What changes are we going to contribute?
+        * There are some subset of changes which are beneficial to the overall ecosystem (like an SBC variant which is disabled by default)
+        * There's some stuff they might not want to use, and our specs will definitely change over time, not necessarily in step with ELRepo
+* Mainline variant for SBCs
+    * Two options: subpackage of mainline or discrete packed kernel with a new name
+    * Leaning towards a discrete package which can be 'packed' directly into git.r.o/sig/altarch/ namespace, if needed
+* Idea on generating kernel configs for SBCs
+    * For some sbcs we need to boot via dtb and not acpi so we require mainline kernel
+        * usually require drivers which are disabled by default
+    * https://git.resf.org/thefossguy/kernel-elrepo/commit/ff349cb79376d1ef4b80c4f8c2cb07703dc3db5e
+    * Pablo: Fedora is generally open to enabling these in those configs, and are usually enabled already
+        * RHEL configs are a lot more conservative as they only enable what they need
+        * Harder to go from RHEL -> working SBC than Fedora -> working (typically), so this is the approach usually he takes
+        * ELRepo is in the middle :)
+        * Recommends starting with fedora than trying to work backwards
+            * Pratham will try this
+    * Also working on comparing 9.2 configs to 9.3 with prior work on sbc enablement
+        * seems to be working (booting) where elrepo kernel was not
+        * need to work out when acpi is not there
+* https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark
+* Mainline kernel is 6.5 right now, we will go to 6.6
+    * There is an issue with 6.7, we have issues w/ NX and shim
+    * There is an exception for Linux distributions right now, but we won't be able to sign 6.7 without a new shim
+    * We'll try and hold onto 6.6 for as long as we can -- and that's OK
+    * May need to have non-nx and nx-ready shim
+        * :upside-down-face:
+* Sherif will be working on LTS 6.1 on x86 a bit this week
+
+## Action items
+
+* Documentation on SIG
+    * Kernel packer - Mustafa
+        * Specfile derrived from ELRepo
+        * Configs derrived from s.fp.o/rpms/kernel (rawhide branch, RHEL configs)
+        * Sources from kernel.org
+    * Roles / Responsibilities - Neil / Sherif
+    * Onboarding - Neil
+    * Update membership - Neil
+    * Usage instructions
+        * What packages are available, what are they, etc
+    * Secureboot info
+* Update kernel-mainline to 6.6 - Neil / Mustafa
+* Write ticket about shim / kernel 6.7 issues (for tracking and visibility) - Neil
+* Setup and document creation of variant for mainline-sbc - Mustafa / Sherif / Neil
+* Develop plan on how to contribute our changes to ELRepo - Neil
+* LTS 6.1 not compiling on x86 - Sherif
+* Write SIG update for Fresh Air newsletter - Neil
+
+## Old business
+
+### 2023-11-28
+
+* Published kernel-mainline!