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[REPORT] Quarterly Report - CentOS Automotive SIG
by Jeffrey Osier-Mixon 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

June 2022 Quarterly report submitted by: Jefro Osier-Mixon, Red Hat - acting chair _____________________________________ Membership update This SIG does not have a formal membership process. The mailing list currently has 94 subscribers representing at least 30 organizations, though not all subscribers use corporate emails and some are participating as individuals. _____________________________________ Releases in the most recent quarter (or most recent release, if none in that quarter) The SIG provides a new distribution: Automotive Stream Distribution (AutoSD), a CentOS Stream derivative designed specifically around the needs of an automotive OS, and transparently the upstream project for Red Hat's eventual in-vehicle OS product. AutoSD has been downloaded and used by several organizations who have commented or asked for help, so we know it is getting some traction though of course we don't have exact metrics on usage. _____________________________________ Health report and general activity narrative. The SIG has had two public meetings per month, one formal and one informal "office hours", each with 25-40 attendees, with visible participation from 7-10 separate organizations. This SIG is intended to be a community effort with contributions and shared benefits from all participants. All formal meetings are recorded and posted on this page: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Automotive/Meetings Several Red Hat employees made the initial contributions to the project as well as the infrastructure required to build and test it. We now occupy a gitlab repository building software regularly using CI, with build instructions provided on the documentation page at https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/ . Sample images are present and downloadable along with customization and build instructions. This is a high-level summary of current activity: - All work has migrating to a CentOS namespace within GitLab in order to cement our intention as a community project: https://gitlab.com/centos/automotive - CI/CD infrastructure is in place - Firmware size has been reduced - Encryption is available via LUKS - a Linux chroot is being worked on for Android devices - manifests now enable EFI runtime services - Lookaside cache structure - Downloadable images are available: https://autosd.sig.centos.org/ - Documentation has been greatly expanded with both community and corporate contributions: https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/ - Documentation now includes detailed contribution guidelines: https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/contributing/contributing-to-auto-sig-re… - Ongoing discussions within the meetings have centered around supported hardware and expectations for documentation - A new meetings page contains recordings of all meetings: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Automotive/Meetings - Synchronous communications have moved from IRC to Matrix thanks to some help from Fedora: https://app.element.io/#/room/#centos-automotive-sig:fedoraproject.org _____________________________________ Issues for the board to address, if any None, keep up the excellent work :) Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon | jefro(a)redhat.com Red Hat Office of the CTO | Sr. Principal Community Architect, Automotive

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Update on the automotive-sig
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Good Morning Everyone, It has been a while since our last update but we have some good news! We are now building nightly images that are available for download. We build in total 14 images, qcow2 images for qemu/kvm or raw images for raspberry pi 4. The documentation giving more information about which image is what, has been updated and can be found at: https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/download_images/ Happy hacking! Pierre

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Weekly update on the automotive-sig
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 23 May '22

23 May '22

Good Morning Everyone, So here are some of the changes that we have worked on week: * Android devices vs chips shortage It is possible today to create Linux chroot on Android devices. With the chips shortage going on world wide, getting even a raspberry pi is problematic or expensive, there are, however, other aarch64 devices that could be used, some that have less shortage issues: android device. We are therefore looking at what it would take to do native builds insite a linux chroot running in an android device. So if that interests you, stay tune! Happy hacking! Pierre

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Weekly update on the automotive-sig
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 13 May '22

13 May '22

Good Morning Everyone, So here are some of the changes that we have worked on this week: * Raspberry pi as an USB gadget on Windows: An USB gadget is a mechanism by which one can interact with a device connected over USB as if it was a device connected on the network. Last week we work on enabling this and documenting it for Linux, this week we have made it work with Windows. Our documentation has been updated for this, you can see it at: https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/building/gadget/#set-up-networking-on-a-… Happy hacking! Pierre

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Weekly update on the automotive-sig
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 06 May '22

06 May '22

Good Morning Everyone, So here are some of the changes that we have worked on this week: * Automatic resize of the '/' partition on raspberry pi Last week we worked on documenting how to resize the '/' partition after flashing an image onto a SD card for a raspberry pi. This week we worked on automatizing this. There is now a `pi_resize` RPM package, included by default on all of our raspberry pi images that will automatically resize the `/` partition to the full size of the SD card upon first boot (and will only do it once). Let us know if it doesn't work for you! * Encrypted images We have work on documentation on how to build images encrypted with luks. You can find it at: https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/building/encryption/ * Reducing linux-firwmare The linux-firmware package is a pretty big package containing binary firmware blob for a number of systems and cards, many more systems than those relevant for the automotive industry. We have thus split out some of the firmware from the linux-firmware package into a custom, smaller, `linux-firmware-automotive` package. Our images now use that package by default, however, if you want/need to use the full linux-firmware package, you can use the `linux_firmware_rpm` template variable to change the package name. * Raspberry pi as an USB gadget: An USB gadget is a mechanism by which one can interact with a device connected over USB as if it was a device connected on the network. To achieve this and make it convenient, we have adjusted the kernel-automotive configuration [1] to support the `libcomposite` module. We have also introduced a `pi_gadget` RPM package, which is available in the Automotive SIG's RPM repository. That package provides a script and a systemd service to automatically turn your raspberry pi into an USB gadget. If you are curious about the experience, feel free to look at our documentation at: https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/building/gadget/ and do let us know if you run into any troubles! Happy hacking! Pierre [1] https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_…

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CentOS Auto SIG Meeting this week
by Jeffrey Osier-Mixon 03 May '22

03 May '22

Hi all - this is a reminder of the monthly CentOS Automotive SIG meeting this week on Wednesday, May 4, at 1000 EDT / 1600 CET. The meeting will be held online at https://meet.google.com/hkx-btgd-dyc Please drop me a note if you would like to be added to the Google invite, but the invitation is not required in order to attend - all are welcome. Draft agenda: - introduction & action items - technical updates: AutoSD, documentation, GitLab namespace, sample images - Q & A Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon | jefro(a)redhat.com Red Hat Office of the CTO | Sr. Principal Community Architect, Automotive

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Weekly update on the automotive-sig
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 02 May '22

02 May '22

Good Morning Everyone, So here are some of the changes that we have worked on last week: * Resizing the '/' partition: After flashing an image onto a SD card, by default the '/' isn't extended to the full size of the disk. The documentation at: https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/building/resize_partition/ provides instructions on how one can resize that partition to make use of the entire size of their SD card. * It is now possible to build external image manifest with the sample-image repo If you run make with the IMAGEDIR=/path/to/manifest/dir then the makefile will automatically pick up any manifest files there and build them just like the regular sample manifests. This makes it easier to maintain and experiment with your own manifests ouside of the repo. * All manifests now enable EFI runtime services The realtime kernel normally disables EFI runtime services because the kernel cannot make realtime guarantees about all possible EFI firmwares. However, supporting EFI is important, so the manifest now default to passing efi=runtime on the kernel commandline to enable this. * Ability to add custom prefixes to image builds If you prepend `@something` to the build target, like so: $ make cs9-qemu-minimal-ostree(a)sometag.x86_64.qcow2 That will be picked up as the resulting filename of the build, although the build is not affected in other ways. This is useful if you want to build a modified image, for example adding some rpms, and want to distinguish the resultant build from unmodified ones. * Lookaside cache structure on CentOS The work we have done to allow a structure in CentOS' lookaside cache which does not rely on a git branching structure as been announced on the centos-devel mailing list: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2022-April/120351.html Happy hacking! Pierre

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Weekly update on the automotive-sig
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 22 Apr '22

22 Apr '22

Good Morning Everyone, So here are some of the changes that we have worked on this week: * We worked on some documentation about the different places you can contribute packages in our ecosystem: Fedora, EPEL, the Automotive SIG and AutoSD, cf: https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/contributing/building_packages/ * The general documentation about best practices for SIGs to use gitlab has been merged: https://sigs.centos.org/guide/gitlab/ * We have added explicitly the linux-firmware-automotive package to content resolver to replace the linux-firmware package with the aim to reduce the image size by dropping the firmware that aren't relevant, cf: https://github.com/minimization/content-resolver-input/pull/709 * We added some documentation on how you can use single-file offline ostree updates: https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/building/updating_ostree/#offline-delta-… * The example rpms that were in the sample-image repostitory have been moved to https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/rpms, and the COPR repo where they used to be built has been removed from the manifests. * The manifests have changed to defaulting to static_uuids=true, where it was false before. This means repeated builds of the same image will be more reproducible, although the uuids will not be unique between builds. * Some initial support for encrypting the root filesystem with LUKS was added. Expect more work on this later though. * We improved our documentation on customizing OSbuild templates: https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/building/customize_template/ Happy hacking! Pierre

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Weekly update on the automotive-sig
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

Good Morning Everyone, So here are some of the changes that we have worked on last week: * We have migrated under the centos namespace on gitlab.com: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive * The new location for the kernel sources: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/src/kernel/kernel-automotive-9 * The git part of dist-git for the kernel-automotive package: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/rpms/kernel-automotive * We have split the content of the automotive-sig repository into two repositories: * The SIG's documentation: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/sig-docs * The sample images (manifests, docs, tools, demos...): https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/sample-images * We have archived https://gitlab.com/redhat/automotive/automotive-sig (so update your bookmarks!) Happy hacking! Pierre

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Weekly update on the automotive-sig
by Alexander Larsson 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Good Morning Everyone, So here are some of the changes that we have worked on this week: * You can now override the os version field in the ostree commit in the images using the `ostree_os_version` variable. * The runvm script now supports the `--watchdog` argument, which implements an external watchdog that survives across VM resets. * There is a new image that demonstrates how the watchdog can be used to implement unattended OSTree updates. See https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/building/unattended_updates/ for docs about this. * There were various fixes to the grub configuration to support the above. Happy hacking! Alex -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc alexl(a)redhat.com alexander.larsson(a)gmail.com

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