#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora ARM weekly status meeting

Meeting summary

1. 0) Status of ACTION items from our previous meeting (pwhalen, 20:02:37)
   1. -COMPLETE- bconoboy to work out remaining minimal F19 package set requiring aarch64 autotools patching (pwhalen, 20:02:45)
   2. masta, j_dulaney, oatley to try upstream kernel on a10 devices (pwhalen, 20:02:58)
   3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2013-04-10/fedora-meeting-1.2013-04-10-20.00.html (pwhalen, 20:03:09)
   4. j_dulaney tried 3.9rc6 upstream kernel on a Gooseberry using the defconfig, did not boot (pwhalen, 20:06:06)
   
   
2. 1) Problem packages (pwhalen, 20:07:15)
   1. python3 current problem package being worked on (pwhalen, 20:08:19)
   2. java-1.7.0-openjdk FTBFS (pwhalen, 20:10:56)
   3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953257 (pwhalen, 20:11:07)
   4. python3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=951802 (pwhalen, 20:12:34)
   5. tog-pegasus: dmarlin is continuing to work on atomics issues (bconoboy, 20:15:40)
   
   
3. 2) Aarch64 patching - status update (pwhalen, 20:15:59)
   1. ACTION: ahs3 will update the package scanner to better handle false positives and negatives (bconoboy, 20:29:06)
   2. an updated message with more accurate instructions for recipients will be crafted after the list is regenerated (bconoboy, 20:29:40)
   3. ACTION: ahs3/pbrobinson/dgilmore will write the updated directions (bconoboy, 20:32:15)
   
   
4. 3) F19 Alpha planning (pwhalen, 20:32:33)
   1. F19 alpha image generation is being held up by problems with live media creator and/or anaconda (bconoboy, 20:48:58)
   2. livemedia-creator fails to make an ISO image using --novirt: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=920764 (bconoboy, 20:49:15)
   3. livemedia-creator appears to hang when using --novirt --image-only: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895258 (bconoboy, 20:49:53)
   4. Current F19 alpha target platform list: highbank, tegra, omap, vexpress (bconoboy, 20:52:51)
   5. http://people.fedoraproject.org/~blc/fedora-arm/arm-boot-config/ (bconoboy, 20:55:25)
   6. Enjoy uboot kernel menus, recover from bad kernels with ease, try http://people.fedoraproject.org/~blc/fedora-arm/arm-boot-config/ (bconoboy, 20:55:53)
   7. Currently supports tegra, highbank, omap: Contact bconoboy to add support for your device (bconoboy, 21:00:01)
   
   
5. 4) 3.9 Kernel Update (pwhalen, 21:01:20)
   1. kernel-3.9.0-0.rc7.git0.2.fc19 booting on tegra/vexpress/highbank and omap (pwhalen, 21:02:16)
   2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Quality_Assurance/Kernel_Testing/Fedora_19#kernel-3.9.0-0.rc7.git0.2.fc19_.28scratch_build.29 (pwhalen, 21:02:51)
   3. http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1716496 (pwhalen, 21:03:16)
   
   
6. 5) Open Floor (pwhalen, 21:07:14)
   1. Trimslice now working with firmware v2012.04-1.02 (1 GB RAM now available) (pwhalen, 21:07:38)
   2. http://www.trimslice.com/wiki/index.php/Trim-Slice_Firmware_Updater#U-Boot_environment_variable (pwhalen, 21:07:39)
   3. initial stage4 bootstrap Quickstart page (pwhalen, 21:08:38)
   4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/AArch64/QuickStart (pwhalen, 21:08:48)
   5. this includes kernels for use with a disk image or nfs root (pwhalen, 21:09:06)
   6. recommend usage with an NFS root (pwhalen, 21:10:42)

Action items

1. ahs3 will update the package scanner to better handle false positives and negatives
2. ahs3/pbrobinson/dgilmore will write the updated directions

Action items, by person

1. ahs3
   1. ahs3 will update the package scanner to better handle false positives and negatives
   2. ahs3/pbrobinson/dgilmore will write the updated directions
2. dgilmore
   1. ahs3/pbrobinson/dgilmore will write the updated directions
3. pbrobinson
   1. ahs3/pbrobinson/dgilmore will write the updated directions

People present (lines said)

1. pbrobinson (76)
2. bconoboy (66)
3. pwhalen (60)
4. j_dulaney (54)
5. masta (27)
6. dmarlin (16)
7. jcapik (13)
8. zodbot (12)
9. ahs3 (11)
10. dgilmore (7)
11. mlangsdorf (2)
12. oatley (2)
13. fossjon (2)
14. agreene (1)
15. jsmith (1)
16. ctyler (0)
17. jonmasters (0)