Fantastic, thanks Alex! Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon | jefro at redhat.com Red Hat Office of the CTO | Sr. Principal Community Architect, Automotive On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 7:22 AM Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote: > The last couple of weeks we have been working a lot on the sample > images in the automotive sig. This culminated in a lot of changes at > the end of this week that are very exciting. > > First of all, the manifests for these images are available (just like > before) at: > > https://gitlab.com/redhat/automotive/automotive-sig > > But the recent changes are: > > We now have images based on CentOS Stream 9. The old CentOS Stream 8 > manifests still remain, but will soon be removed in favour of the new > ones. We have images targeting virtual machines and Raspberry Pi4, > each supporting either OSTree or regular boot mode. > > There is a new build tag for automotive in CBS: > > > https://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildtargetinfo?name=automotive9s-packages-main-el9s > > This allows us to build custom packages targeting the automotive images > that > are not normally in centos. > > In this tag we now have builds of the new automotive kernel, and some other > packages that are needed for the realtime support it has: > > https://cbs.centos.org/koji/packages?tagID=2463 > > These kernels and packages are automatically pulled into the > automotive image builds. > > All the manifests have been converted from JSON to Yaml. This makes > the manifest easier to read and maintain, and it also allows us to use > comments in the manifests. The tool that reads the yaml is osbuild-mpp, > which now supports either json or yaml, but it always outputs json files > that are read by osbuild. > > We have been experimenting with booting the images without grub, using > direct uefi kernel booting. This is done in order to boot faster and > with less code. This work is experimental, but if you want to play > with it, change the image_type to "directboot" to see this in > action. It even works on the raspberry pi. > > All manifests are now ext4 based rather than xfs, as the automotive kernel > is slated to remove the xfs support. > > The neptune images now automatically log in as the "neptune" user and start > neptune. > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc > alexl at redhat.com alexander.larsson at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-automotive-sig mailing list > CentOS-automotive-sig at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-automotive-sig > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-automotive-sig/attachments/20211119/3a5c798b/attachment-0002.html>