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  1. Bug #1841585
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1841585

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Lee Trager (ltrager) wrote : Re: Please include linux-oem and linux-oem-osp1 for Machine minimum kernel

MAAS has a very strict understanding of kernels. This is done to allow users to set a minimum kernel version on a machine and have MAAS automatically select the correct kernel version or prevent a user from selecting an older kernel version. Because of this we'll need to add the kernels to the stream in lp:maas-images as well as teach lp:maas how to handle these new kernels.

We need to understand the following:
1. What is the short hand name for these kernels? Currently we have ga-18.04 and hwe-18.04, what should these be called?
2. Will these kernels have flavors? Currently we have -lowlatency, -edge, and -lowlatency-edge
3. How should MAAS determine which is the latest kernel? For example users today can configure a machine to have a minimum kernel version of hwe-18.04. When deploying Bionic that means they can only choose between hwe-18.04-lowlatency, hwe-18.04-edge, or hwe-18.04-lowlatency-edge. Should oem or oem-osp1 kernels be considered newer or older?
4. Which versions of MAAS need to support these kernels?

It may be easier to discuss this at our upcoming sprint.