Greetings everyone, During Ironic's last PTG[0], we discussed the future path for drivers and the overall direction in the vendor ecosystem. The overall consensus was that DMTF Redfish is largely achieving its overall goal to standardize interfaces for interactions with Baseboard Management Controllers. Most of the vendors we collaborate with are in the process of determining their support and migration paths to Redfish. But as with any Open Source project with drivers, we also haven't heard from some vendors recently for a variety of reasons. It is with that in mind, we've made the decision to deprecate and eventually remove[1] some of the vendor drivers in cases where we've not heard from the maintainers and there is a forward path. * ibmc - We've not heard from the maintainer in some time due to geopolitical circumstances, but when we last heard from the developer/maintainer, they indicated work was actively underway to achieve redfish compliance in their employer's hardware. * xclarity - This driver was a driver which was designed to talk to the Lenovo xClarity Controller. This driver largely had no forward path, as we believe the underlying API support it used was also deprecated by Lenovo with the release of xClarity Controller v3. We have received numerous reports that the upstream redfish hardware type works as expected against Lenovo hardware, and at this point it just seems logical to move beyond this early driver. * iDRAC WSMAN driver flavors - The Dell team at a point long in the past decided Redfish was the future direction, and they created a set of "Redfish" interfaces in their driver, which replaced "WebServices for Management", better known as WSMAN interfaces which hail back to the days of iDRAC 6 (2008). At this point, given iDRAC7 (2012) firmware updates are available with Redfish support, we believe Redfish is generally suitable moving forward. The specific modules going away are the "-wsman" variant interfaces under the idrac hardware type. In case you are now wondering about the Fujitsu iRMC and HPE iLO drivers, we've heard from those teams recently and they too are focusing on Redfish as their forward path. The exact shape and form remains to be determined as each vendor has unique constraints and requirements to work with. As a result of this, their driver interfaces are not impacted by this decision by the community. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out or join the Ironic team during our weekly meeting[2]. -Julia [0]: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ironic-ptg-october-2023 [1]: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ironic/+/901501 [2]: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Ironic