Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/08/01

Couple of weeks here as I was off in the middle:

  • Worked on adding FIT support to u-boot-rpi
  • More work on Boards Documentation
  • Patch Pilot shift on Monday
  • Merged simplified branch of the classic pi-gadget
    • Also merged changes to enable gnome-initial-setup in oracular
  • Did a little sphinx debugging for imagecraft
  • Worked on u-boot merge from debian (LP: #2075352); merge now finished but dealing with FTBFS on armhf
  • More investigation of build failures on arm64+raspi images
    • It’s not a snapd issue (as first thought)
    • … or an adduser issue (second try)
    • … or a systemd issue (third time was notably not the charm)
    • It is LXD failing to launch (useable) oracular containers under focal’s 5.4 kernel (works fine from jammy onwards under 5.15)
    • And no, the latest LXD doesn’t fix the issue so either LXD needs fixing to work under 5.4, or the image builders need to be running some later
    • Filed GitHub issue to track, and provided some further debug logs on request
  • Interviews & take home tests
  • Meetings
  • Customer Pi compatibility work
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