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  1. Martin Roukala (né Peres) @mupuf ·

    Pour le fédivers Francophone:

    Voici une présentation, faite par mon ami et contributeur Vincent Autefage, de . Ce projet open source est un initramfs contenant et permettant de démarrer des conteneurs sans installation préalable d'un système d'exploitation (très utile pour les tests de pilotes dans un environnement CI).

    2024.jres.org/programme#modal-

    #boot2container #podman
  2. Martin Roukala (né Peres) @mupuf ·

    v0.9.13 is out 🥳

    This initramfs embeds 5.3 and allows you to run one or more containers, entirely configured via the kernel command line... which is perfect for driver testing in CI as every job gets full control of its test environment without having to re-download/deploy it at every boot nor influencing other jobs!

    It runs on any AMD64, AARCH64, ARMv6, or RISCV64 computer running a recent Linux kernel.

    Get it while it's fresh at gitlab.freedesktop.org/gfx-ci/

    #boot2container #linux #podman
  3. Martin Roukala (né Peres) @mupuf ·

    Achievement unlocked: Booting a CI system in an hotel room... on another continent... with 4 DUTs (RPi5, VisionFive2, HDK8550, and a Steam Deck)... over WiFi !

    Tune to our demo at to see more: indico.freedesktop.org/event/6

    -tron

    #xdc2024 #ci #boot2container
  4. Martin Roukala (né Peres) @mupuf ·

    @cas Just to be clear: the EFI image would be the rootfs + kernel that the user would flash on one partition of their main storage?

    We can't have full disk images unless the board has u-boot flashed in an SPI memory, right?

    In any case, good luck, this will also help (the OS part) / boot2ipxe (the firmware part) \o/

    #boot2container
  5. Martin Roukala (né Peres) @mupuf ·

    @siosm Fun and very useful, great work!

    So, if I understand correctly, the container is downloaded and extracted by the current OS, then the initrd will pivot to an overlayfs at boot?

    Did you re-use the container runtime at all? Any possibility to download and extract the container images at boot time, à la ?

    #boot2container
  6. Martin Roukala (né Peres) @mupuf ·

    @craftyguy @calebccff @igalia Unglamorous changes? Dude, initramfses are SEXY! :ac_heart:

    But why I am not surprised you worked on this :D? Missing already?

    #boot2container
  7. Martin Roukala (né Peres) @mupuf ·

    v0.9.9 is out 🥳

    The new version of this initramfs brings in 4.3, better flexibility for iface configuration, support for loading containers without registries, and the ability to run fstrim at boot time.

    However, what really excites me about this release is that it should now (net)boots on upstream-supported aarch64 platforms such as the 4, as long as your bootloader is EFI-compatible (tianocore works).

    Get it while it is fresh at gitlab.freedesktop.org/mupuf/b

    #boot2container #podman #raspberrypi