[Feature] PXE boot with Intel Omni-Path

[Tymoteusz Kielan]

Description:

This is about ability to PXE boot over Intel Fabric.
Netboot initrd is missing infiniband kernel stack along with hfi1.ko (for 1st generation of Intel Omni-Path cards). In addition some firmware files required to load modules are also missing in initrd. This firmware came from existing linux-firmware package, but is not included in netboot initrd image.

Add Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) Firmware to initrd.gz

The initrd.gz supplied on Ubuntu 17.04 is missing
the following firmware listed below in the /lib/firmware directory.
As a result, PXE boot over fabric fails.

        hfi1_dc8051.fw
        hfi1_fabric.fw
        hfi1_pcie.fw
        hfi1_sbus.fw

Target Release: 18.04

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[Tymoteusz Kielan (tkielan)]

1. Feature Overview:
    a) Name of feature:
        Add Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) Firmware to initrd.gz

    b) Feature Description:
        The initrd.gz supplied on Ubuntu 17.04 is missing
        the following firmware listed below in the /lib/firmware directory.
        As a result, PXE boot over fabric fails.

        hfi1_dc8051.fw
        hfi1_fabric.fw
        hfi1_pcie.fw
        hfi1_sbus.fw
        hfi1_smbus.fw (to be confirmed)

        These firmware binaries can be found in the standard Ubuntu distro or
        linux-firmware (except hfi1_smbus.fw)

2. Feature Details:
    a) Architectures:
        64-bit Intel EM64T/AMD64

    b) Drivers or hardware dependencies:
        Omni-Path HFI, HFI driver

    c) Upstream acceptance information:
        Part of linux-firmware

    d) Severity (H,M,L):
        High

    e) Feature Needed by:
        Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

3. Business Justification:
    a) Why is this feature needed?
        The firmware is required for the HFI card for Omni-Path Architecture.

    b) What hardware does this enable?
        Omni-Path HFI

    c) Is this hardware on-board in a system (eg, LOM) or an add-on card?
        PCIe card

    d) Business impact?
        Required for Omni-Path

[Tymoteusz Kielan (tkielan)]

Please ignore my previous comment, as I have updated bug description

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.169

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linux-firmware (1.169) artful; urgency=medium

  * [Feature] PXE boot with Intel Omni-Path (LP: #1712031)
    - Add Intel Omni-Path firmware to nic-firmware.lst

 -- Seth Forshee <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Oct 2017 09:23:35 -0500

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.13.0-15.16

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linux (4.13.0-15.16) artful; urgency=low

  * linux: 4.13.0-15.16 -proposed tracker (LP: #1721373)

  * Boot regression on POWER9 (LP: #1721391)
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Add P9 NX support for 842 compression engine"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Add P9 NX specific error codes for 842 engine"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Use kzalloc for workmem allocation"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Add nx842_add_coprocs_list function"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Create nx842_delete_coprocs function"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Create nx842_configure_crb function"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Rename nx842_powernv_function as icswx function"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: [Config] CONFIG_PPC_VAS=y"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define copy/paste interfaces"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define vas_tx_win_open()"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define vas_win_close() interface"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define vas_rx_win_open() interface"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define helpers to alloc/free windows"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define helpers to init window context"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define helpers to access MMIO regions"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define vas_init() and vas_exit()"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Move GET_FIELD/SET_FIELD to vas.h"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define macros, register fields and structures"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Enable PCI peer-to-peer"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Add support to set power-shifting-ratio"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Add support for powercap framework"
    - Revert "powerpc/perf: Add nest IMC PMU support"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Detect and create IMC device"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Add IMC OPAL APIs"

  * smartpqi patches for Artful (LP: #1721381)
    - scsi: smartpqi: add pqi reset quiesce support
    - scsi: smartpqi: enhance BMIC cache flush
    - scsi: smartpqi: update pqi passthru ioctl
    - scsi: smartpqi: cleanup doorbell register usage.
    - scsi: smartpqi: update kexec and power down support
    - scsi: smartpqi: add in new controller ids
    - scsi: smartpqi: change driver version to 1.1.2-125

  * CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is not enabled by "make zfcpdump_defconfig" with Ubuntu
    17.10 (kernel 4.13) (LP: #1719290)
    - SAUCE: s390: update zfcpdump_defconfig

  * [Feature] PXE boot with Intel Omni-Path (LP: #1712031)
    - d-i: Add hfi1 to nic-modules

  * [Feature]CNL:New device IDs for CNL (LP: #1685729)
    - pinctrl: intel: Add Intel Cannon Lake PCH-H pin controller support

linux (4.13.0-14.15) artful; urgency=low

  * linux: 4.13.0-14.15 -proposed tracker (LP: #1721122)

  * [Artful] ltp rwtest - Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
    address (LP: #1721067)
    - arm64: mm: Use READ_ONCE when dereferencing pointer to pte table

  * linux 4.13.0-13.14 ADT test failure with linux 4.13.0-13.14 (LP: #1720779)
    - SAUCE: LSM stacking: check for invalid zero sized writes

  * Add installer support for Broadcom BCM573xx network drivers. (LP: #1720466)
    - d-i: Add bnxt_en to nic-modules.

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - [Packaging] Include arch/arm6...