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Hey Alvaro,

We've discussed support for ubuntu arm64 image during the last weekly
meeting on Monday and agreed to provide it.
I plan to start working on that this week in the
ironic-python-agent-builder repository.

Ciao
Riccardo

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 11:00 PM Alvaro Soto <alsotoes at gmail.com> wrote:

> I saw CentOS 8/9 and Debian images; any plans on working with Ubuntu?
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 2:16 PM Jonathan Rosser <
> jonathan.rosser at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jay,
>>
>> We did not need to make any changes to Ironic.
>>
>> At the time we first got things working I don't think there was a
>> published ARM64 image, but it would have been of great benefit as it was
>> another component to bootstrap and have uncertainty about if we had done
>> it properly.
>>
>> I've uploaded the published experimental image to our environment and
>> will have an opportunity to test that soon.
>>
>> Jon.
>>
>> On 31/03/2023 17:01, Jay Faulkner wrote:
>> > Thanks for responding, Jonathan!
>> >
>> > Did you have to make any downstream changes to Ironic for this to
>> > work? Are you using our published ARM64 image or using their own?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Jay Faulkner
>> > Ironic PTL
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 7:56 AM Jonathan Rosser
>> > <jonathan.rosser at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >     I have Ironic working with Supermicro MegaDC / Ampere CPU in a
>> >     R12SPD-A
>> >     system board using the ipmi driver.
>> >
>> >     Jon.
>> >
>> >     On 29/03/2023 19:39, Jay Faulkner wrote:
>> >     > Hi stackers,
>> >     >
>> >     > Ironic has published an experimental Ironic Python Agent image for
>> >     > ARM64
>> >     >
>> >     (
>> https://tarballs.opendev.org/openstack/ironic-python-agent-builder/dib/files/
>> )
>> >
>> >     > and discussed promoting this image to supported via CI testing.
>> >     > However, we have a problem: there are no Ironic developers with
>> >     easy
>> >     > access to ARM hardware at the moment, and no Ironic developers
>> with
>> >     > free time to commit to improving our support of ARM hardware.
>> >     >
>> >     > So we're putting out a call for help:
>> >     > - If you're a hardware vendor and want your ARM hardware
>> supported?
>> >     > Please come talk to the Ironic community about setting up
>> >     third-party-CI.
>> >     > - Are you an operator or contributor from a company invested in
>> ARM
>> >     > bare metal? Please come join the Ironic community to help us build
>> >     > this support.
>> >     >
>> >     > Thanks,
>> >     > Jay Faulkner
>> >     > Ironic PTL
>> >     >
>> >     >
>> >
>>
>>
>
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>
> Alvaro Soto
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