Andrew Sharp
Kernel investigation
Two new documents in https://absharp.com/hp-documents/
One is some questions for Lance, and the other is the beginning of the effort to define and document a plan for migrating the software part of the Havic and Gen boxes. This is just an initial stab right now, not set in stone or anything, but a work in progress. A lot of investigation went into what's there now and what will be there going forward, but I wanted to get down on paper some of the thinking I've been doing on what are the best ways to address the needs of your group now and into the future. A lot of thought went into some of the choices, and I'm trying to capture as much of the reasoning as I can before it dissipates.
The Lance questions list. This list of questions has been written and completely erased and written again. The number of questions on it currently is small. Maybe that's a good thing.
Road ahead
Get some kind of picture of the scope of the effort to get the host customer kernel drivers building with DKMS on a 5.X kernel. A scoping effort.
Ditto with the applications.
Create some useable VMs with the desired environment so various ideas can be cleanly tested. Starting with Debian 10 & 11 images, and also a 32-bit VM running the ljldev image (the image that currently runs on Havic and Gen boxes). I've already started with a Debian 11 image, but it hasn't been very useable yet because my workstation software possibly should be upgraded to newer release. A lot of that going around these days I guess.