[nova][libvirt] Support for MIPS architecture?

赵晓琳 zhaoxiaolin at loongson.cn
Sat Jun 6 06:35:41 UTC 2020


We can provide ci resources to the first party.
But, sorry, what detailed ci resources do we need to provide? and how to provide?
Do you mean KVM and hosts with MIPS architecture?


On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 7:39 AM Sean Mooney <smooney at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 17:51 +0800, 赵晓琳 wrote:
> > Hi    I'm trying to run openstack on a host with MIPS architecture, but got some errors, and I have fixed
> > them.    Many people around me use hosts with MIPS architecture. We hope the official can add support for MIPS and we
> > can maintain it. Thanks, xiaolin
> to state that mips is fully supported would require an automated ci running on mips hardware.
> if you can provide ci resources either to the first party ci or via a third party ci that projects can consume
> we may be able to test that the basic functionality works. in the long run support for other architectures really
> required a concerted effort from a vendor or community that runs openstack on that architecture.
> 
> there recently has been a effort to add more aarch64 testing but traditionally anything that was not x86 fell to
> third party hardware vendors to test via third party ci. i.e. the ibm provided powerVM and power KVM CIs to test nova on
> power pc.
</smooney at redhat.com>


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