EBBR Notes 2018.05.31

31 May 2018

• Ryan Harkin (Linaro)
• Rob Herring (Linaro)
• Grant Likely (Arm)
• Bill Mills (TI)
• Daniel Thompson (Linaro)

Agenda

1. Issue Review / Roundtable
2. Release schedule
3. ONIE
4. Other business

Notes

Roundtable:

• Grant - not much this week; sent email to ONIE and Google folks
• Bill - trying to figure out the importance of true ISO images to EBBR
  • These systems won't have CDROM packages
  • Is it important to be able to DD the image to a USB drive?
    • Grant: it is the easiest for creating a bootable device
  • How do we handle separate firmware partitions on an ISO image?
  • if everyone agrees that a separate firmware flash is reasonable to ask, then some of these concerns go away.
    • Rob: if we include firmware we could be creating a new problem - how does the firmware get updated?
• Daniel - Has been pushing boot from removable media because it is the proof case that EBBR actually works and is valuable.
• Daniel - working on v2 patch, hope to get it posted next week

Release schedule

• What needs to be in the v0.6 release?
  • Grant has taken a first pass and marked the issues that should be resolved for v0.6
  • Grant would like to tag a v0.6 release by the 3rd week of June
  • Daniel takes issue with tagging #11 because it is interpretive
    • Should only gate on spec issues, not interpretation
  • Need to add AArch32 support for v0.6
    • Bill: Does it need to be complete? Or just a placeholder to show AArch32 support will be added before it is released
    • Grant: I'm okay with that
  • Bill: would like to see a top-25 list right at the beginning of the document laying out what the document is:
    • NOT prose
    • For example:
      • Designed to target embedded / $8 boards
      • UEFI firmware interface
      • U-Boot, Tianocore implementation
      • DT and ACPI supported
      • Support commodity distros on embedded boards

Getting buy-in:

Bill: Would be good to get supportive statements from RPi, Bill will work on BeagleBone folks, etc.