wiki/docs/meetings/2024-01-11.md

SIG/Kernel meeting 2024-01-11

Issues

https://git.resf.org/sig_kernel/meta/issues

Attendees

• Sherif Nagy
• Neil Hanlon
• Pablo Greco
• Brian Clemens

Old Business

• 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
  • sig_kernel/meta#10
• Write SIG update for Fresh Air newsletter - Neil

Discussions

• LTS 6.1 not compiling on x86 - Sherif - Build-id problem
• How often will we build?
  • Once a month we want a SB build, try and build non-SB signed ones weekly (?) but don't release
• Don't build with tools, don't build with UKI
• User Experience - for upgrading
  • don't do anything by default
  • provide documentation and a bubblewrap CLI to help users select what they want to boot/upgrade/default
  • add excludes to repos, manage repo enable/disable

Action items

• Kernel packer for sbc variant
• Automation for kernel packer, Rocky 8