AdamW on Linux and more
Long time no blog, once again - as always, I'm mostly posting on Mastodon now, so follow there if you're missing the Content. This is a bit big, though, so it goes here! I was in Prague for Flock 2026 and Brno for Devconf.cz 2026 recently. Didn't have any issues with travel, fortunately. I was in Prague a day early for a Red Hat "face-to-face", which went fine. Had a fairly quiet/jetlagged dinner…
Hi folks! Over the last couple of weeks, we have migrated nearly all the quality team's repositories from Pagure (the old Fedora forge) to the new, Forgejo -based Fedora Forge . As part of this, I've figured out a process for doing CI with Forgejo Actions. I also came up with a way to do automated LLM pull request reviews, for those interested in that. For the impatient, you can just look at /…
Introduction Hi there, blog readers! For the last week or so I've been poking into AI code review tools. Yes, this is partly because of the Red Hat "you must do AI things!" policy. But also, to be honest, because they seem to be...actually good now. I set up AI reviews for pull requests to our openQA test repo as an experiment. But especially over the last couple of months, they've got to the…
First up, since it's short: a quick happy note on Strix Point support in Linux. I blogged about this earlier , with my HP Omnibook 14 Ultra laptop with Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU, and it wasn't going great. I figured out some workarounds , but in fact the video hang thing was still happening at that point, despite all the cargo-cult-y command line args. But as of recent 6.15 RCs, it has been more or less…
Recently, I have been playing the classic Nintendo video game series "Pikmin", and have reached two conclusions. Firstly, they are excellent and very enjoyable video games. Secondly, they form the bleakest fictional dystopia yet conceived by man. The Hunger Games? Amateurish. Never Let Me Go? Takes a while to really kick in. The Handmaid's Tale? Strong competition, but Pikmin edges it. Allow me to…
Figured I'd post an update on how things are going with the new laptop (HP Omnibook Ultra 14, AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 "Strix Point", for the searchers) and with Silverblue. I managed to work around the hub issue by swapping out the fancy $300 Thunderbolt hub for a $40 USB-C hub off Amazon . This comes with limitations - you're only going to get a single 4k 60Hz external display, and limited bandwidth…
New year, new blog post! Fedora's going great...41 came out and seems to be getting good reviews, there's exciting stuff going on with atomic/bootc, we're getting a new forge , it's an exciting time to be alive... Personally I've spent a large chunk of the last few weeks bashing my head against two awkward bugs - one kernel bug , one systemd bug . It's a bit of a slog, but hey. Also now working up…
It's time for that rarest of events: a blog post! And it's another debugging adventure. Settle in, folks! Recently I got interested in improving the time it takes to do a full compose of Fedora. This is when we start from just the packages and a few other inputs (basically image recipes and package groups), and produce a set of repositories and boot trees and images and all that stuff. For a long…
I'm in Brno, working from the office for a few days after the end of DevConf.CZ. It was a great conference, good to see people and feel some positive energy after all the stuff with RH layoffs and so on. It was really well attended, and there were a lot of useful talks. I presented on the current state of openQA and Fedora CI, with Miroslav Vadkerti kindly covering the Fedora CI stuff (thanks to…
Hi folks! For the first post of 2023, I thought I'd do something a bit different. If you want to keep up with what I've been working on, these days Mastodon is the best place - I've been posting a quick summary at the end of every working day there. Seems to be working out well so far. The biggest thing lately is that "grouped critical path", which I wrote about in my last post , is deployed in…