Please make available in 22.04

[dann frazier]

[Impact]
This package is unavailable in 22.04, the latest Ubuntu LTS release. This means Ubuntu users need to use a non-LTS release on their host system if they wish to manage their Bluefield controllers. BlueField controllers are generally expected to be installed in data center environments, which is an environment in which we expect LTS releases to be generally preferred.

[Test Case]
On a system w/ BlueField controller:

sudo apt install rshim
Verify /dev/rshim0/* devices are populated.
Access the BF device, e.g. 'sudo screen /dev/rshim0/console'

[What Could Go Wrong]
Introducing a new package should have negligible risk in a pure Ubuntu environment - one has to opt-in to receive it. There is a risk for users who may have installed an rshim deb from NVIDIA[*], and would now transition to Ubuntu's version on an apt upgrade. I've tested this upgrade path and it seems to be problem-free. I'm also in touch with the NVIDIA developers so we can work with them to resolve any issues that do arise.

[*] https://www.mellanox.com/downloads/BlueField/RSHIM/rshim_2.0.6-1.ga97dc5d_amd64.deb,

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello dann, or anyone else affected,

Accepted rshim-user-space into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rshim-user-space/2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~22.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello dann, or anyone else affected,

Accepted rshim-user-space into kinetic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rshim-user-space/2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~22.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-kinetic to verification-done-kinetic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-kinetic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello dann, or anyone else affected,

Accepted rshim-user-space into lunar-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rshim-user-space/2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~23.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-lunar to verification-done-lunar. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-lunar. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

I verified the rshim.service is working on Jammy[1].

[1] verified by checking "journalctl -x -u rshim.service"
ubuntu@exotic-skunk:~/toolbox/scripts/packaging-deb-rshim-user-space$ apt-cache policy rshim
rshim:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~22.04.1
  Version table:
     2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~22.04.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/universe amd64 Packages

ubuntu@exotic-skunk:~$ sudo apt install rshim

ubuntu@exotic-skunk:~$ journalctl -x -u rshim.service
Jun 15 10:02:26 exotic-skunk systemd[1]: Starting rshim driver for BlueField SoC...
░░ Subject: A start job for unit rshim.service has begun execution
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░ A start job for unit rshim.service has begun execution.
░░
░░ The job identifier is 1271.
Jun 15 10:02:26 exotic-skunk systemd[1]: Started rshim driver for BlueField SoC.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit rshim.service has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░ A start job for unit rshim.service has finished successfully.
░░
░░ The job identifier is 1271.

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

Similar to comment#4, I verified the rshim.service also working on kinetic.

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

Similar to comment#4, I verified the rshim.service also working on Lunar[1].

[1]

Jun 15 15:43:33 renewing-manatee systemd[1]: Starting rshim.service - rshim driver for BlueField SoC...
░░ Subject: A start job for unit rshim.service has begun execution
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░ A start job for unit rshim.service has begun execution.
░░
░░ The job identifier is 1075.
Jun 15 15:43:33 renewing-manatee systemd[1]: Started rshim.service - rshim driver for BlueField SoC.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit rshim.service has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░ A start job for unit rshim.service has finished successfully.
░░
░░ The job identifier is 1075.
Linux renewing-manatee 5.15.0-1026-nvidia #26-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 18 05:12:01 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 23.04
Release: 23.04
Codename: lunar
rshim:
  Installed: 2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~23.04.1
  Candidate: 2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~23.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~23.04.1 100
        100 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-proposed/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rshim-user-space - 2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~23.04.1

---------------
rshim-user-space (2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~23.04.1) lunar; urgency=medium

  * Backport to lunar with no changes. LP: #2020714.

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden> Fri, 26 May 2023 13:20:49 -0600

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for rshim-user-space has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rshim-user-space - 2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~22.10.1

---------------
rshim-user-space (2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~22.10.1) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * Backport to kinetic with no changes. LP: #2020714.

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden> Fri, 26 May 2023 13:21:48 -0600

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rshim-user-space - 2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~22.04.1

---------------
rshim-user-space (2.0.8+debian-1~exp1~22.04.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Backport to jammy with no changes. LP: #2020714.

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden> Fri, 26 May 2023 13:22:22 -0600