Hi Tom, On Tue, 27 May 2025 at 20:44, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 01:34:48PM -0600, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 04:03:11PM -0600, Tom Rini wrote: > > ` > > > Hey all, > > > > > > So it's release day and I have tagged and pushed things out. I will be > > > updating the next branch shortly. There's still a few things that need > > > to come in for the release, as fixes, but otherwise I think the next > > > branch is where most changes should end up. > > > > > > We're continuing with a community meeting following the release and is > > > the same time as the previous meeting. The meeting details itself are: > > > https://meet.google.com/btj-wgcg-euw > > > May 27th, 2025. 9am (GMT -06:00) > > > > > > To join by phone: > > > https://meet.google.com/tel/btj-wgcg-euw?pin=1307528552322&hs=1 > > > > For today's meeting it was suggested to try and use Google's > > transcription service to take notes. What follows is a lightly edited > > copy of the transcript. I will say it took a good amount of time to read > > and re-edit. I will follow-up with a lightly edited Gemini summary, just > > to finish evaluating this idea. > > And here is Gemini's summary of the transcript: > > Release Updates > > * Tom Rini announced that Release Candidate 3 (RC3) was released the previous > day and things are generally in good condition. > * There's an outstanding issue and revert for the ext4 overflow issue that > needs addressing. > * Kernel release v6.15 is now in the device tree rebasing repository, and > plans > are underway to sync and test it with CI. > * The community is encouraged to test the current state of the master branch > on > available hardware in preparation for the upcoming July release. > * Regression fixes should be brought to Tom Rini's attention with links for > tracking. > > Kbuild System Updates > > * Ilias Apalodimas initiated a discussion about updating the Kbuild system, > which is significantly outdated. > * There are two approaches: incremental updates with detailed commit messages > or a large diff to bring it up to speed quickly. > * The consensus is to prioritize updating the Kbuild system over maintaining a > detailed commit history. > * Ilias has been working on porting patches to bring the system up to v5.1 and > plans to split makefiles into an include file for easier future syncs. > * The aim is to get the current updates into the next window and work on > syncing with v6.15 afterward. > * There's a desire to enable compiling with LLVM for catching more bugs due to > its stricter default flags. > > QEMU Issue > > * There's an ongoing issue with QEMU on the vexpress_ca9x4 platform, > particularly with TFTP crashing. > * There's debate about whether the issue lies with QEMU or the U-Boot > implementation, with suggestions to engage QEMU developers for further > insights. > * Peter and Richard Henderson from QEMU have been consulted, and there are > assumptions that the problem could be due to unaligned accesses and the MMU > not > being enabled, but these assumptions might be incorrect as the TFTP crashes > early. > * Ilias plans to debug the issue further by the end of the week. > > Continuous Integration (CI) Discussions > > * Jesse T asked about making reproducible builds in CI, similar to Buildroot. > Tom Rini explained that the focus is on using pre-built toolchains to avoid > compiler build issues. > * There's interest in setting up a CI bot to test on boards. Ilias Apalodimas > has past experience with Buildbot and can share configurations. Haiko has also > worked on tbot and integrating it with GitLab CI. > * Jesse T raised a bug found by a professor on the DE1 SOC, possibly a > compiler > issue, and shared build scripts for review. > * A CI discussion about running OSS was initiated by Simon. Ilias mentioned a > missing kernel module in Alpine, but is working on adding it to Yocto for > easier testing. > * Simon has a test that boots Ubuntu 2404 Desktop installer on his lab, but is > interested in CI testing with smaller images like Alpine. > * There are challenges with booting OS images from RAM using EFI and handling > ISO images in CI, leading to discussions about network booting solutions. > > Other Topics > > * Jesse T mentioned a bug on the D10 standard board, not the D1 SOC, and > shared > pkg builds via IRC. > * Simon Glass and Ilias talked about a hang when running QEMU on an ARM64 > machine with KVM enabled, possibly related to out-of-memory issues with blob > list. > > Conclusion > > The meeting covered various topics, including release updates, Kbuild system > updates, QEMU issues, CI improvements, and other specific problems > encountered. > The community continues to work on enhancing U-Boot and ensuring its stability > across different platforms.
The summary seems good enough to me, and is shorter! - Simon > > -- > Tom
