On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 3:44 PM Guillaume Tucker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nathan, Nicolas, Miguel - what are your thoughts on this?
I agree with Nathan that `Containerfile`s on git.kernel.org sounds good. While many kernel developers may not use them (mostly because everyone has their own setup already), if we had a set of "base" images that are maintained by someone trusted (including publishing them in the usual registries for easy use), then I think a bunch of us would actually use them for CI and possibly other tasks; just like some of us already use the kernel.org toolchains "manually" anyway etc. It could serve as an entry point to discover the different toolchains and software offered by kernel.org, i.e. not just the GCC and LLVM and LLVM+Rust toolchains, but also perhaps `b4` pre-installed and so on. Even things like `tc-build` or the latest and greatest set of AI context text files could be considered too. It could also perhaps simplify a tiny bit giving quick reproducers compared to giving the instructions for a distro base image + extra things to install. It could also be a good thing to give newcomers (i.e. how to set up all the development environment is a common question) and LLMs. I mean, all this is nothing new of course, but sometimes trust and convenience go a long way. I hope that helps! Cheers, Miguel
