Realistically the work Ironic has completed this cycle is to enable an operator to execute steps against a node and a DPU as part of the same deployment operation. This work is unrelated to past work in ironic to support "smart nics" (the original marketing name used for DPUs), which was more about the deploy time networking interactions. Unfortunately, we're not entirely there as most of this was the underlying substrate and workflow capabilities. We expect this to begin to be extended to aspects such as firmware management of the DPU, and we already have reports of operators using ironic separately to deploy the OS on some DPU models. The issue is before now, they were entirely disjointed. We expect this to improve over the next few years, but is also going to take standardization across the DPU vendor market to really enable. The OPI[0] community is working on trying to drive standardization, but many of the features and requirements being discussed will likely force revision in the silicon, in other words it might be a few years before we see the standardization we're trying to drive there reach a usable state.