[openstack-dev] [nova] Help: How to make Nova official support AArch64?

Kevin Zhao kevin.zhao at linaro.org
Tue Dec 27 08:48:18 UTC 2016


Hi Jay && Matt,
     Thanks for your valuable help~
     I will continue to work on this now for 3rd CI

Best Regards,
Kevin Zhao

On 21 December 2016 at 10:34, Matt Riedemann <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
wrote:

> On 12/20/2016 7:27 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>
>> On 12/20/2016 12:45 AM, Kevin Zhao wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Nova,
>>>       Greetings from ARM and Linaro :D
>>>       This is Kevin Zhao from ARM. Nowadays Linaro and other
>>> contributors have submitted some patches to Nova community , fixing bugs
>>> for Nova running on AArch64. Now we can successfully running a OpenStack
>>> cluster on AArch64 and pass much of the tempest test. The
>>> virtuallization hypervisor is based on Libvirt+KVM.
>>>
>>>       Actually in Barcelona Keynote(interoperability Challenge
>>> <https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/openstack-interopera
>>> bility-challenge-running-unmodified-apps-in-any-openstack-cloud>,
>>>
>>> at 10:30') one of the OpenStack interoperability cloud is from Linaro,
>>> all based on AArch64 machines.
>>>        I see there is a Nova support matrix
>>> <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/support-matrix.html>. So my
>>> question is :
>>> *       what do we need to do, so that Nova can official support AArch64
>>> architecture? for example add AArch64 to this support matrix?*
>>>
>>>        Sincerely thanks for your help. Any of your response will be
>>> really appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> I think the first thing you would need to do is set up some sort of
>> continuous integration system that can be notified by upstream patch
>> changes/pushes and report results of Tempest testing against a build of
>> OpenStack on AArch64 machines.
>>
>> You can read about setting up third-party CI for this here:
>>
>> http://docs.openstack.org/infra/system-config/
>>
>> Best,
>> -jay
>>
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> Yeah as Jay said it's probably 3rd party CI to recognize it in the support
> matrix.
>
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>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Riedemann
>
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