[ARMHF] No distribution upgrade path support for Calxeda specific cloud images

[Manoj Iyer]

This bug tracks support requirement for calxeda specific cloud image that will be hosted on partners.cloud-images.canonical.com. This is an experimental cloud image based on 13.10, that has kernel package from proposed, redirects dmidecode to /bin/true so that cloud-init does not fail when it invokes dmidecode, and udev rules to load isofs module at boot time so that we can pass a seed image to the cloud image in iso/CD format.

Currently calxeda cloud image is based on 13.10. There two paths to upgrade to 14.04 cloud images.
#1. 13.10 images could to be upgraded to 14.04 using the distribution upgrade path
#2. consumers of this image switch to using the new 14.04 based images when they are released

We require that consumers of this calxeda specific cloud image upgrade to 14.04 by using the images that are released in cloud-images.ubuntu.com (option #2) rather than doing a apt-get distupgrade (option #1).

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[Ripal Nathuji (ripal-nathuji)]

No, we don't need this to work. We'd want this to be possible starting from 14.04, but it's okay if it's not there with the 13.10 image.

[Raghuram Kota (rkota)]

 [Support Statement]: Canonical and Calxeda will support this custom 13.10 armhf image for select Calxeda armhf customers/ demos for the duration of the 13.10 life-cycle. However, users should be aware that when 14.04 LTS ships, users will need to use the new 14.04 based cloud image, since we do not support a distribution upgrade path from 13.10 to 14.04 for Calxeda cloud images.

[Ben Howard (darkmuggle-deactivatedaccount)]

Marking as invalid due to Calxeda's re-org.