Greetings,
I don’t have a board yet, am about to pull the trigger. One thing I am wondering about is if anyone has tried getting talos running on an O6 yet? If so, how did it go?
My idea is to get three of these up and running in the home lab with some 1x x8 to 4x x2 (gen 3) PCIe switches (4 u2 drives per server) and get a little Ceph cluster running along with some other K8s workloads and Calico for networking.
Christopher
Talos/kubernetes will not run anything different than on other hardware, but You will need right kernel with drivers and configuration to get all needed components to work. This should be still considered as dev board, so don’t expect same experience as with x64.
Thanks to edk2 support You will need right build with kernel that supports all needed components. Stock talos (6.12) probably won’t work there. Debugging and checking all needed stuff with talos won’t be easy, but sooner or later it should be fine.
If it’s fun project then as always it’s interesting to play with such hardware. Probably reasonable build will be available in about 1-2 years, but still this is far from production ready. Read topic about orion debug party and all issues reported there. Still it’s far from optimal, I won’t put anything valuable there for now.
There are aarm64 builds for Talos right now. I looked through the debug party list. I’ll probably grab a board and start tinkering. One advantage of Talos is that there isn’t really much there. It’s pretty stripped down - that’s the idea. Most things that people expect in an OS are actually in the containers that you would launch on it (I.e. the userland).
Christopher
Yes, and they come with 6.12 generic kernel, so probably You won’t get at least few basic things. It’s long road to mainline everything and have it already in generic images. EDK helps to manage basic SOC stuff, but that is not everything.
It always worth to try, just don’t expect it will be stable for production for some time.
Also at some point we should see ARMv9 image,
It’s not about userland and system related stuff, but about kernel and support for devices on board. Talos have images for few boards like pi4 or rock4, pi5 is not ready yet (and just abandoned). There are also some builds for RK3588. For now to get everything to work patched kernel and few tweaks were needed (that’s the reason for individual builds). For sure at this point there is no attempt to build talos for cix with right kernel and optimized settings.