Codethink: report weeks 8 to 10

Hi,

## CIP kernel maintenance

* CIP Linux Kernel 4.4.120-cip20 released.
** Merge fixes from stable versions 4.4.113-4.4.120 inclusive ** Includes some mitigations for Spectre v1 and v2 on x86 ** Fix stable regressions in x86/apic, arm/omap2, tca8418_keypad, leds
** Backport additional mitigations for Spectre on x86, and related fixes
** Add SMP, I2C/IIC, RTC and SDHI support for R8A7743 and iWave board

## CIP kernel testing

* New fresh box provisioned. New CIP kernel tested with B at D. #149 ** Link: https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/149

* B at D update to latest kernelci version
** Branch works. Fixing last few reviews comments from Ben H.: https://
gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/board-at-desk-single-dev/merge_requests/53

* B at D on Renesas iw20gm. Work in progress. #166
** Ticket: https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/166

* Private network usage for connection with board: https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/board-at-desk-single-dev/merge_requests/55

## Other topics

* Codethink spotlight reviewed.

* Agustin at OSLS.
** Lobbying towards LTS/LTSI/CIP?Debian alignment for the next kernel. ** It seems like the natural choice for all parties involved.

* Ben H. will attend to DebConf. 2018 sponsored by CIP.

Best Regards

Agust?n Benito Bethencourt
Principal Consultant
Codethink Ltd