August 20, 2026 Community Meeting Notes

[Lincoln Lavoie]

Attendees
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1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Dillon Ladd
3. Koushik Bhargav Nimoji
4. Matthew Gee
5. Aaron Conole

Minutes
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General Announcements
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There have been some external service outages for Patchworks and
Github, likely due to bot traffic.

CI Status
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AWS Lab
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No update

UNH-IOL Community Lab
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ABI Testing is disabled for 26.11 release (just a reminder).

Reporting of CPU and libc information deployed, now included email
reports to patchworks for all test types.

We did discover a bug that could cause the lab to miss testing a
patch, if the polling job was in process, and patchworks become
unresponsive while the script was running, this has been fixed.  We
requeued a couple of patches that had been missed over the last month.

CompressDev testing has been shut off.

We’ve found a couple of bugs that caused an issue with running the
single core performance testing on Broadcom devices with newDTS,
patches have been submitted, after they are merged the CI, we will be
done using old-DTS.

AMD unit tests on Clang, need to check back on the status of this item

AMD Hardware Upgrades, we provided some information to the AMD team,
they may send us NICs to add to the lab.

AI Code Review - Running ok, no warnings on the models being used, or
something else.

There are some discussions about how to better handle large patches
that exceed the current context window sizes.  There is a patch on the
dev list for this, UNH will review.

Intel Lab
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Still has a failure in the docs testing that has been flagged by some
of the maintainers.

Github Actions
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No updates, running as expected, except for the couple of outages,
caused by bot loads.

Loongson Lab
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Looks like Loongson lab reports are showing up on patchworks again.

DTS Improvements & Test Development
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Code coverage patch merged into 26.11 release. Planning to merge into
main early according to Patrick.

Starting planning the 26.11 roadmap for DTS development items:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ZR59qHriYcdCINc7r-jLv0TxYyZXEChxqZiIH5ozSs/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.kj74v08bi0yx

Several RFC patches and updates have already been submitted to the mailing list.

Any other business
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Next Meeting: September 2nd, 2026


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Lincoln Lavoie
Principal Engineer, Broadband Technologies
21 Madbury Rd., Ste. 100, Durham, NH 03824
lylavoie at iol.unh.edu
https://www.iol.unh.edu
+1-603-674-2755 (m)