[PureOS] Bits from PureOS | opening the firehose

[Guido Günther]

Hi Jeremiah,
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 02:11:02PM -0500, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Some bits from PureOS;
> 
> 1. Byzantium on all the things
> 2. End of life for Amber?
> 3. EFI
> 
> 
> 1. Due to the fact that there is a new SoC / CPU in the Mini and the
> Librem 14, we need to move to a new kernel for these new devices. The
> good news is that the Byzantium kernel appears to fit our needs. The
> Mini that I have here is a Intel Coffee Lake i7-8565U @ 1.80GHz with 8
> Cores. 
> 
> uname -a;
> "Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.9.1-1 (2020-10-17) x86_64
> GNU/Linux"
> 
> /etc/os-release;
> VERSION_ID=10.0
> VERSION_CODENAME=byzantium
> 
> Everything has been working quite smoothly except for some issues
> around accessing our repos; https://tracker.pureos.net/T960

Let me add that we (as discussed) started uploading Librem 5 related
packages to byzantium. As of now we avoided uploading patched gtk,
g-c-c, g-i-s, webkit, epiphany, ... but that is bound to change in the
next couple of days. The rule for byzantium there is:
- must be a regular (non-sloppy) build
- if the software is not adaptive per se it need to figure things out
  by itself e.g. based on the form factor or the dowstream GTK toggle
  we have.

This will also lead to some consolidation e.g. on the g-i-s side and the
aim is certainly to not break the laptop use case but i just want to
bring this up since the automatic testing you mentioned in earlier
reports would become even more useful now.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> I have an ISO with the installer that Matthias has fixed up and we hope
> to have a Go / No Go decision with that image for tomorrow
> (Wednesday). 
> 
> 2. Amber should likely have a EoL date. I feel like that should be a
> sort of LTS style approach and say we'll support Amber for two more
> years. We still sell some products (Librem 15, server) with Amber still
> on it and enterprises expect longer support so something along those
> lines seems sensible. Feedback most welcome.
> 
> 3. Can we deliver an installer that supports EFI? I realize this has
> been a goal for a while and that there is work still needed to be done
> for this and we have the usual resource constraints. What more needs to
> be done?
> 
> Thank you!



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