20:02:45 #startmeeting Server SIG Weekly Meeting (2017-05-16) 20:02:45 Meeting started Tue May 16 20:02:45 2017 UTC. The chair is sgallagh. 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It's quitting time after this! :D 20:04:44 jds2001: If only... 20:04:59 server working group: we make you quit. ;) 20:05:01 pbrobinson: Are you around? 20:05:49 I'm going to try to make this meeting short today, because I have a hard stop in 25 minutes due to other obligations. 20:06:07 #topic WiFI hardware support in Fedora Server, Revisited 20:06:33 I was talking with pbrobinson this morning and he pointed out that Server is the base platform used by most of the armv7hl disk images that Fedora builds. 20:06:58 * nirik nods 20:07:08 It turns out that some (many?) of them are boards with WiFI for networking. 20:07:14 I think it might be reasonable to include firmware and such for wireless. 20:07:31 nirik: Well, we actually already ship that firmware, I think. 20:07:40 It's bundled in with the rest of the firmware 20:07:42 .hello mhayden 20:07:43 mhayden: mhayden 'Major Hayden' 20:07:47 ok. whats missing then? 20:07:55 But we don't ship the userspace bits like NetworkManager-wifi 20:08:02 ah. 20:08:04 #chair mhayden smooge 20:08:04 Current chairs: dperpeet jds2001 mhayden mjwolf nirik sgallagh smooge 20:08:18 yeah, those should be easy to include... do we include the vpn ones? 20:08:35 none of that pulls in gnome UI bits, right? 20:08:49 jds2001: No, NetworkManager divested itself from those deps a long time ago 20:08:49 or any other weird deps? 20:09:10 NetworkManager++ :D 20:09:12 According to pbrobinson this morning, it adds about 250kiB worth of stuff. 20:09:13 the vpn ones pull in their vpn, but otherwise I think it's all fine 20:09:28 the wifi one is pretty self contained. 20:09:46 requires wpa_supplicant. 20:10:10 250kiB isn't terrible 20:10:19 even for a small device running off a SD card ;) 20:10:52 well, hopefully our SD card has that much space left :D 20:11:06 if not, then 1KiB is a real problem :D 20:11:08 heh 20:11:22 The DVD already includes these, they're just not part of the default install 20:11:24 250kiB should be enough for everyone 20:11:30 * mhayden utters the famous last words 20:11:37 And (today) the images contain only the default package sets. 20:11:52 The alternative approach is changing the kickstarts for the specific models that are affected. 20:11:59 * jds2001 is fine with adding to the default since there's a real use case. 20:12:02 Which is more maintenance effort, but more targeted. 20:12:48 * jds2001 assumes that the firmware is already included in the default for other things. 20:12:52 broadcom nics, etc. 20:13:48 Actually, I'm looking at comps and I'm not sure the earlier assessment about firmware was correct. 20:13:59 I think we'd need to shuffle comps around a bit for this. 20:14:12 so we're not really bloating for the firmware that includes firmware for every esoteric piece of hardware out there. 20:14:52 been awhile since i was involved at this low a level, but i thought bnx2x for example required firmware. 20:14:57 OK, I just double-checked. 20:15:11 which is common in enterprise-y servers. 20:15:20 At some point in the past, we split the @hardware-support comps group into @server-hardware-support and @hardware-support 20:15:33 We ship the former by default and make the latter available on the DVD 20:15:50 So we may want to amend that 20:15:53 ahh, and @server-hardware-support doesnt include wifi? 20:16:42 Correct 20:16:58 Actually, I take even *that* back 20:17:06 (Sorry, comps is hard to parse) 20:17:44 Looks like @server-hardware-support is not enabled by default either... and is only special hardware components for things like Dell firmware 20:18:25 So I think we only carry whatever @standard and @base provide 20:21:04 * mhayden must depart for a company meeting, unfortunately ;/ 20:21:41 OK, I'm going to stop chasing the details and just ask the question: 20:21:42 * nirik is fine with adding wireless support, whatever is needed there, unless it's very large 20:21:53 do we want to ship this by default or go for the targeted approach? 20:22:44 targeted would be... only arm images? or ? 20:22:58 nirik: Individually add it to kickstarts where appropriate 20:23:10 ah. I'd prefer default. 20:23:32 Anyone in opposition? 20:24:08 jds2001: Yeah, it does and we'd have to figure out which ones to pull in. 20:24:22 If we go this route, I'll work with pbrobinson to figure out which ones are applicable and which are not 20:24:34 I'd prefer not to bring in the whole world here 20:24:34 makes sense to me. 20:25:21 OK, then if no one who's here is dissenting: 20:25:39 #agreed We will ship WiFI support for common hardware in the default package set. 20:25:40 no objection 20:25:57 no objection 20:26:00 nirik: Would you mind opening a ticket at https://pagure.io/fedora-server/issues on this? 20:26:13 I need to run off to my other appointment. 20:26:17 I'll look into it tomorrow 20:26:26 sure 20:26:52 Thank you 20:26:59 #action nirik to file a ticket to track that effort 20:27:17 OK and with that, I need to run. 20:27:20 Thanks for coming, folks. 20:27:25 thanks! 20:27:26 #endmeeting