wiki/docs/events/meeting-notes/2024-01-26.md

SIG/AltArch meeting 2024-01-26

Attendees

• Neil Hanlon
• Bryan (codedude)
• Sherif Nagy

Follow Ups

• 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)

Tickets

sig_altarch/meta#4 - Jan 2024 uboot - Closed

Open Floor

• 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.rockylinux.org/codedude/kernel-mainline-sbc
    • SIG/Kernel#1
    • SIG/Kernel#7
    • SIG/Kernel#8
    • KernelPacker needs two things:
      • Spec template + KConfig

Action Items

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