[nova][libvirt] Support for MIPS architecture?

赵晓琳 zhaoxiaolin at loongson.cn
Sat Jun 6 06:46:05 UTC 2020


Thanks for the help.
We will pay attention to the Multi-Arch Special Interest Group, and provide CI resources to the openstack community as soon as possible.



> 
> OpenStack also has a Multi-Arch Special Interest Group:
> https://docs.openstack.org/multi-arch-sig/latest/index.html
> 
> Although (as Sean says) most non-x86 efforts are currently around
> aarch64, the Multi-Arch Special Interest Group is still interested in
> tracking (and, if possible, facilitating) MIPS-related efforts.
> 
> 
> 
> 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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