Community meeting tomorrow (22 April 2025)

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 09:30:42AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> As a reminder we're having the next community meeting tomorrow. The
> details are the same as always:
> https://meet.google.com/btj-wgcg-euw and the calendar link on
> https://www.u-boot.org/ and the dail-in numbers are at:
> https://meet.google.com/tel/btj-wgcg-euw?pin=3D1307528552322&hs=3D1
> 
> The meeting will be on Tuesday, April 22nd at 9am (-0600).
> 
> This is slightly off-schedule in that merge window is 3 weeks and
> release canidates are a two week cadence. Last call it was suggested
> that we have a meeting mid-merge window.

Here are the notes for the call this week, sorry for the delay in
sending them out. Please note there will be another one next week as
that follows the normal schedule.

- Heinrich asked about RISC-V PR as there's a number of outstanding
  changes, Tom to follow up to maintainers off list (aside: Done, PR
  expected this week).
- Tom noted that applying the UTHREADS series is on his TODO list for
  this merge window.
- Heinrich has posted an RFC of efi boot manager + bootstd, hopes Simon
  has time to review and comment.
  - He has found some problems for example with lwIP and PXE and things
    they aren't related. But the concept is ready for comments.
- Henrich posted patches to allow buildman to apply fragments to every
  part of a build, Simon was reviewing the patches prior to NAK'ing
  them[1], and it's unclear why. Tom suggested adding defconfigs and
  Heinrich has done this for  the immediate problem and awaits further
  comments from Simon.
- Heinrich noted Adriano has some patches for more network devices but
  likely next release. Tom noted he forgot to apply the hook patch for
  testing of these and will do so after the call (aside: Done).
- Daniel Maslowski wanted to bring up falcon mode and DRAM init.  On
  DRAM, binary blobs are used on some platforms, he's reverse
  engineering some of them, is there interest in this? This is for the
  K1X/M1/X1 SoC (aka Spacemit). Currently also looking at RK3568. In
  both cases, this is done in Rust and not C.
  Heinrich asked if the file format had been reversed and it hasn't yet,
  he's using some other tooling instead. Heinrich asked Daniel to RFC
  it. Bradley suggested that might be beneficial for a different
  engineer to translate the Rust code to C.
  - For Falcon Mode, finds this interesting for the Linux Boot project,
    wonders how actively used falcon mode is?  Heinrich noted that this
    can be used on RISCV too, as one part of this is just using a FIT
    image and that can contain opensbi.
- Tom asked Bradley for a high level summary on the re-licensing of the
  bloblist file. Bradley has comments, but needs to confirm with Simon
  first about a number of assumptions. This was tabled until the next
  meeting when Simon will hopefully be able to attend.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/CAFLszTh29kgQ_bE8_gnORWH0PQ=H94=q7757mFOfiopCUL3eTg@mail.gmail.com/

-- 
Tom
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