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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> I would like to ask for a feature freeze exception for passing capabilities in the flavor to Ironic:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pass-flavor-capabilities-to-ironic-virt-driver">
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pass-flavor-capabilities-to-ironic-virt-driver</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="line-height:9.95pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"> Addressed by:
<a href="https://review.openstack.org/136104">https://review.openstack.org/136104</a><br>
Pass on the capabilities in the flavor to the ironic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:9.95pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"> Addressed by:
<a href="https://review.openstack.org/141012">https://review.openstack.org/141012</a><br>
Pass on the capabilities to instance_info<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> several Ironic Kilo features including secure boot, trusted boot, and local boot support with partition image are depending on this feature. It also has impact on Ironic vendor driver’s hardware property introspection feature.
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Code changes to support this spec in Nova ironic virt driver is very small-
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<p class="MsoNormal"> only 31 lines of code (including comments) in nova/virt/ironic/patcher.py, and 22 lines of code in test_patcher.py.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Please consider approving this FFE. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">wanyen<o:p></o:p></p>
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