IPA files to detect physical memory on systems without dmidecode

[Tony Breeds]

On systems without dmidecode (either the package isn't available, or the CPU architecture doesn't support DMI) IPA detects the total memory but reports 'None' for physical_mb. This causes introspection to fail.

[milan k (vetrisko)]

Hi Tony,

thanks for the report!
I'm switching the project to Inspector as the introspection is what fails here.

Cheers,
milan

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Tony Breeds (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/501938
Reason: Ie370331df6bb5ef131c5cb60f458877e2a7ad71a is a better solution longer term.

I was hoping to implement something that could be backported to pike but that's a bad idea

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/501799
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic-python-agent/commit/?id=2877fc53d409e950a685a4bd31ac37b4865981a9
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: master

commit 2877fc53d409e950a685a4bd31ac37b4865981a9
Author: Mike Turek <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Nov 30 16:30:42 2017 +0000

    Use lshw in place of dmidecode for the default hardware manager

    Currently the generic hardware manager uses dmidecode to get the
    total physical memory and system details. This patch switches the
    generic hardware manager to use lshw, as it is capable of reading
    more than DMI [0]. This enables systems that do not support DMI
    to use the generic hardware manager, such as IBM Power systems.

    [0] https://github.com/lyonel/lshw/blob/master/README.md

    Closes-Bug: #1715790
    Change-Id: Ie370331df6bb5ef131c5cb60f458877e2a7ad71a
    Depends-On: Idaf05b8efce28cd0cbf339cf693db4f55a693d9b

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/ironic-python-agent 3.2.0 release.