Bug 1078965

Summary: [RFE] use an arch-specific tftpboot directory for aarch64, instead of re-using the pxelinux directory
Product: [Retired] Beaker Reporter: Bill Peck <bpeck>
Component: lab controllerAssignee: Dan Callaghan <dcallagh>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: tools-bugs <tools-bugs>
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Version: 0.16CC: aigao, asaha, dcallagh, jburke, jnicolet, peterm, rmancy, tools-bugs, xma
Target Milestone: 0.17.1Keywords: FutureFeature
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Description Bill Peck 2014-03-20 15:51:39 UTC 
Description of problem:
Admins request that aarch64 be used instead of pxelinux dir.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.16.0
Comment 1 Bill Peck 2014-03-20 15:54:56 UTC 
patch..

http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/#/c/2942/
Comment 4 Dan Callaghan 2014-03-24 02:19:59 UTC 
To be clear, this is an RFE requesting that the tftpboot directory layout used for aarch64 in Beaker 0.16.0 be changed. Instead of re-using "pxelinux" it should use an arch-specific directory.

Because this is a backwards incompatible change I think it needs to go into 0.17 at the earliest.
Comment 5 Dan Callaghan 2014-03-24 02:21:30 UTC 
Some other ideas which might help with this problem:

* make the aarch64 path configurable; or
* make all tftpboot paths configurable (this is tricky for some bootloaders which expect hardcoded absolute or relative TFTP paths); and/or
* document the directory layout which Beaker currently expects.

These are all more effort than just renaming the aarch64 directory though.
Comment 6 Nick Coghlan 2014-03-25 03:11:58 UTC 
The docs thing could probably be its own RFE...
Comment 7 Dan Callaghan 2014-03-25 04:46:44 UTC 
(In reply to Nick Coghlan from comment #6)
> The docs thing could probably be its own RFE...

Indeed: bug 1080285.
Comment 8 Bill Peck 2014-06-17 11:57:33 UTC 
Hi Dan,

Just wanted to let you know I can test this change in Huntsville because they are still configured to use the arch specific directory.

So once this makes it into a 0.17.x release I'll update them.
Comment 12 Dan Callaghan 2014-06-23 05:04:52 UTC 
On Gerrit: http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/3158
Comment 16 Dan Callaghan 2014-07-18 08:17:39 UTC 
Beaker 0.17.1 has been released.