Soak Setup: stage gds-plugin from fprime-rfm69-feather-groundstation

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Related Issue(s)	fprime-community/fprime-soak-test-reference#7, fprime-community/fprime-soak-test-reference#11, fprime-community/fprime-rfm69-feather-groundstation#3
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Change Description

Soak Setup: AArch64 Linux Reference now stages gds-plugin/ from fprime-community/fprime-rfm69-feather-groundstation (sparse checkout of gds-plugin) and no longer expects it in the soak reference checkout.

- name: "Checkout RFM69 Feather groundstation"
  uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    repository: fprime-community/fprime-rfm69-feather-groundstation
    path: fprime-rfm69-feather-groundstation
    sparse-checkout: gds-plugin
    persist-credentials: false
- name: "Stage GDS plugin"
  run: cp -r fprime-rfm69-feather-groundstation/gds-plugin gds-plugin

Rationale

fprime-soak-test-reference#7 moved the space-packet-fprime GDS plugin to the groundstation repo. The workflow still archives gds-plugin from the reference checkout, and the staged requirements.txt still contains ./gds-plugin. With the directory gone, soak-setup's pip install -r requirements.txt fails during deploy.

fprime-rfm69-feather-groundstation#3 (merged) updated that plugin for fprime-gds 4.4.0 by adding SpacePacketSplitterFramerDeframer. Without that change, GDS throws away the aggregated RFM69 downlink frames.

Testing/Review Recommendations

• The workflow YAML parses and pre-commit passes.
• The same plugin, built from the groundstation repo, was exercised on the soak testbed (Pi flight board plus Feather RFM69 ground radio). That run used the fprime-soak-test-reference#11 v4.4.0 build and fprime-gds 4.4.0, and the reference integration suite passed 15/15 twice.
• This workflow has not been dispatched yet. It builds the reference's main, so fprime-soak-test-reference#11 must merge before Soak Setup can build against v4.4.0.

Future Work

• After merge, dispatch Soak Setup.
• Confirm that the deployed FSW has CAP_SYS_NICE.

Contributor Checklist

• I have the rights to contribute this change set under the Apache-2.0 license.
• I agree to be bound by the contributor guidelines.

AI Usage (see policy)

Devin (AI) traced the Soak Setup failure, wrote this workflow change, and ran the hardware integration tests, at the direction of @LeStarch.

• This contribution follows the F´ AI development skills (entered through AGENTS.md).

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