FFE: maas support for hardware enabement kernels (HWE)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cloud-initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Unassigned | ||
maas (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Description]
MAAS does not currently support installation of Hardware Enablement kernels [1]. This is essential function to support Ubuntu LTS releases of 12.04 and 14.04.
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[1] https:/
[Proposed Changes]
The full design and implementation are not yet finalized. The end result will allow users of maas to utilize the hardware enablement kernels for each of
In order to support the HardwareEnablem
re that isn't fully supported in Ubuntu.
The general plan is to enhance the simple streams data that is available on maas.ubuntu.
We also plan to make "fat initramfs" available to support booting a single ephemeral image with multiple different kernels. This is necessary because keeping a 1:1 relationship of kernel to ephemeral image is not supporatable given the download size. This is the reason for the cloud-initramfs
The MAAS team will work in conjuction with Ubuntu teams and other Canonical teams to bring these features in.
See bug 1281881 for MAAS FFe
Changed in maas: | |
milestone: | none → 14.04 |
Changed in cloud-initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-14.04 |
Changed in maas (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-14.04 |
Changed in cloud-initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in maas (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in maas: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Changed in maas: | |
assignee: | nobody → Andres Rodriguez (andreserl) |
no longer affects: | maas |
description: | updated |
Changed in maas (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in cloud-initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Please can you provide more information on the status of the 'fat initrd', is this feature developing well? Has this concept been proved against the 12.04 HWE options as reference, in particular arm based servers. Can you confirm that arm based deploying is no-worse than current.
Thanks