SIG/AltArch meeting 2024-01-26¶

Attendees¶

Jan 2024 Uboot - Sherif completed, published 18 Jan
RPI5 - Not going great
Fedora can't boot it either, and it's not upstream yet
Kernel is still missing Pi5 DTB
Armbian is working, but they're probably patching the DTB
Skip was working on firmware, not sure of status
Bryan has a working Kernel, but it's hacky and broken... but it works (nominally)
SBC Testing
Testing of new Uboot underway
Libre Tritium H5 - works fine
Libre Le Potato - appears that Libre hasn't upstreamed their entire uboot
- 2024 uboot, lots of NIC resets; vendor firmware doesn't do this
- Fedora “recommends” using vendor uboot for Potato
- Q: Do we want to recommend Le Potato but with Vendor Uboot for now?
Rock5B/OrangePi uboot patches - not actually working right
- thefossguy built a one-off uboot for the OrangePi using an upstream tool (which is possibly proprietary/non-free)

https://git.resf.org/sig_altarch/meta/issues/4 - Jan 2024 uboot - Closed

mainline-sbc kernel
[ ] Neil to get documentation for Kernel Packer and start the sbc kernel config repo
SIG/Kernel tickets for variant creation
- https://git.resf.org/codedude/kernel-elrepo
- SIG/Kernel#1
- SIG/Kernel#7
- SIG/Kernel#8
- KernelPacker needs two things:
- Spec template + KConfig

[ ] Neil to get documentation for Kernel Packer and start the sbc kernel config repo