<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thank you,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I will start the study on</font><font size=2>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thx.</font>
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<br><font size=3>On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Jing CDL Sun <</font><a href=mailto:sjing@cn.ibm.com target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>sjing@cn.ibm.com</u></font></a><font size=3>>
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<br><font size=3 face="sans-serif">Hi </font><font size=3>Devanana and
all, <br>
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I'd very glad to attend the Ironic weekly meeting, while since I'm in China,
the time difference is a problem for me :) but I did read through each
meeting minutes - the robot is great! <br>
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I have one thought in my mind for a long time, but not sure if it could
be approved by you guys, I posted it here since I can not talk about it
in IRC meeting, please let me know if this is not the right place, Thx.
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I tried the opentack baremetal provisioning, and found sometimes it would
be a problem for me to enroll the hardware information, I might not know
these information or I mixed it up since I have many different-type servers,
it would be better if we could provide an automatic mechanism so the admin
can run a command(or something like this), then the reqquired hardware
information could be return or enrolled into db directly. <br>
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I searched in Ironic BP list, and found </font><a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/discovery-ramdisk" target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue face="sans-serif"><u>https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/discovery-ramdisk</u></font></a><font size=3 face="sans-serif">,
very similar with my thoughts. It's approved but not started yet, may I
be lucky to work on this? I think it will be a useful feature for the users.</font><font size=3>
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<br><font size=3>Hi Jing!</font>
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<br><font size=3>Yes, this is on the roadmap for Ironic. I have outlined
the requirements in the blueprint, and more detail is probably needed.
Right now, we are focusing on implementing the essential components of
the Ironic project and reaching functional parity with Nova's Baremetal
driver, so new features like a discovery ramdisk are lower priority. Until
the PXE driver is ported, Ironic does not have the capability to boot any
images.</font>
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<br><font size=3>If you want to work on the discovery ramdisk, please start
by looking at the diskimage-builder project. We use that to build the deploy
ramdisk. The first step would be to add a hardware-interrogation element
that can be incorporated into a ramdisk. After that, we will need to consider
an interface for posting that information back to Ironic, and a method
for authenticating it.</font>
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