What can you do with Baserock?
This page is intended as a way of tracking what people are using the Baserock for, and what people would like to be able to do with it in future.
This isn't a bug tracker, or a roadmap. But it's a good place to start if you're looking for something to do, or want to know what's been done already. Where something is marked 'complete', it means the bulk of the work is done, not that every last bug has been tracked down and fixed!
If you're interested in working on something below that's not marked as 'complete', feel free to jump right in, but it'd be good to get in touch in case there's existing work that you could use as a starting point.
NOTE: Where an item has a 'sponsor', this means that someone who's already active in the Baserock community is keen for the feature to be done, and they might have started the work already. In this case, they are likely to provide support to anyone who wants to help out with that task.
Baserock reference systems on different hardware
The Baserock project maintains different 'reference systems'. Some are intended to be used as-is, while others are examples that can be adapted for different needs.
The first step to getting Baserock working on a new CPU architecture is to cross-bootstrap the 'build' system. This system can build and deploy all the other Baserock reference systems, and also provides a reasonably complete GNU/Linux environment that can be adapted for running console applications or network services.
After that you might want to get the 'weston' system working, and try to run some graphical applications. You could use the 'genivi-baseline' system, which gives you various multimedia packages (with a focus on in-vehicle "infotainment").
| Hardware | Detail | Sponsors |
|---|---|---|
| Acer Chromebook | Complete ('build' system) | |
| IBM PC or 100% compatible | You can boot a 64-bit 'build' system off a USB stick! | |
| HP Moonshot server | Complete ('distbuild', Trove) | |
| NVIDIA Jetson devboard | Complete ('build', 'distbuild', GENIVI Baseline, Weston) | |
| Raspberry PI | ? | |
| Any hackable phone or tablet | Not started | |
Integrate open source software with Baserock
The Baserock tooling is designed for producing systems that have open source software components integrated and working together. Everything is built from upstream source code, and the resulting systems know the exact Git commit of the source code and build instructions.
| Software | Detail | Sponsors |
|---|---|---|
| Android | Not started | |
| GENIVI Demo Platform | In progress | Jonathan Maw, James Thomas |
| Gerrit code review | Complete | |
| GNOME Desktop | In progress | Javier Jardón |
| Java (from source) | Researching | Jim Macarthur |
| OCAML | In progress | |
| OpenBMC | Complete | Javier Jardón |
| OpenStack | Complete | |
| XFCE Desktop | In progress | Javier Jardón |
Add new features to the Baserock tooling
Here are some major changes to the Baserock tooling that various people in the community would like to see.
This is not a complete list. See also: Storyboard, wishlist.
| Features | Detail | Sponsors |
|---|---|---|
| Automate integrating new versions of components | In progress | |
| Bit-for-bit reproducible builds | In progress | |
| Continuous build & test of Baserock systems | In progress | Adam Coldrick, Sam Thursfield |
| Live atomic updates of Baserock systems | ? | Richard Maw |
| Stripping of debug symbols | In progress | Richard Maw |
| Read-only /usr | Not started | |
| Support musl libc as well as GLIBC | ? | |