MAAS needs to support LTS point release HWE kernels.
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| MAAS |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| The Open Compute Project |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
There needs to be a way to enlist / commission / provision MAAS nodes using an LTS point release with its accompanying kernel.
For example:
OpenCompute Roadrunner systems have a NIC and BMC that were enabled in the 12.04.3 LTS release's 3.8-raring-backport kernel.
MAAS, of course, won't provision 12.04 with the 3.8 kernel. It only leverages the 3.2 kernels. This prevents the NIC and BMC from working properly, which makes it pretty much impossible to leverage these machines in the MAAS environment with the 12.04 LTS release.
One possible idea is to make the LTS 12.04.3 point release available as a selectable option in the MAAS settings WebUI. In the "Default Distro for Commissioning" and "Default distro used for deployment" sections, we'd like to be able to select "Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS 'Precise Pangolin'" and that would contain the needed 3.8 kernel that will work with newer hardware.
There are also cases where vendors like Dell are refreshing their current PowerEdge lineup with Ivy Bridge server processors. We've been recommending that customers use the 3.8-based 12.04.3 point release on these systems (per Intel). With MAAS, there's no way to specify that particular point release and kernel that we are aware of.
