Re: Weekly Meeting 2019-01-14 #minutes

["Kevin Hilman" <khilman@baylibre.com>]

"Dan Rue" <dan.rue@linaro.org> writes:

> - Attendees: Charles Oliveira, Daniel Díaz, Guenter Roeck, Guillaume
>   Tucker, Dan Rue, Mark Brown, Matt Hart
>
> - [matt]
>   - Scrap HTML emails everywhere?
>     - Ask HTML receivers
>   - In kernel defconfig build lists
>     - Kernel tree owner can update the defconfig list without us having
>       to roll out updated configs
>       - [mark] let’s see what 0day does and others; how do they solve
>         this?
>       - [drue] perhaps a separate repo that manages configs like this
>         out of band from the kernel tree and out of band from kernelci’s
>         release cycle. This could also be useful to manage and support
>         fragments.
>       - [gtucker] what’s the actual usecase of wanting to filter
>         defconfigs?
>         - [matt] speed
>         - [mark] well kernelci’s point is coverage. If you just want one
>           built, you don’t need kernelci.
>       - [matt] we’ll wait until the yaml work is completed by gtucker
>         before making any changes here
>     - Very useful for testing
>       - [gtucker] Other way to do this is in build-configs.yaml with all
>         the other build configuration settings (see initial work in
>         kernelci-core-staging PR #75)

We need flexibility in which defconfigs are built per tree, but also per
arch and probably per toolchain, so having this in a simple file in tree
is not sufficient.

IMO, the build-configs.yaml stuff that Guillaume is working on is the
way to go forward.

> - [gtucker]
>   - Test regressions merged on staging, testing last changes to the test
>     reports
>   - Adding fix for MIPS (remove hacks and use gcc-7)

Thanks!

>   - V4l2 & dynamic metadata: adding a template parameter to the
>     test-configs.yaml test plans settings to specify the video driver to
>     use in the test (discovering the driver name at runtime isn’t
>     practical with current LAVA)
>
> - [drue]
>   - Next steps on ‘[Help] How to use kernelci to establish a local CI
>     lab?’?
>     - [chaws] I mentioned this repo:
>       https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-core, but still unsure what
>       the next step is
>     - Li’s asking for support using kernelci-docker locally, not adding
>       a lab to kernelci. There are a lot of versions of this repo in the
>       wild, so it’s not clear who should help him. Matt can show him how
>       he does it.

I'm not sure about a lot of versions, but we (BayLibre) are working
primarily on this one, which is also deployed for AGL:
https://github.com/lucj/kernelci-docker

Kevin