SIG/Kernel meeting 2024-01-11¶

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

Attendees¶

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
- https://git.resf.org/sig_kernel/meta/issues/10
Write SIG update for Fresh Air newsletter - Neil

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