[ironic] ARM Support in CI: Call for vendors / contributors / interested parties

Jay Faulkner jay at gr-oss.io
Fri Mar 31 16:01:24 UTC 2023


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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