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Description of problem:
On a 7.4-ALT install the ipxe-bootimgs package is noarch.
I think this probably makes sense being that you can boot another arch off the ALT server by pxe booting from it. The issue is that the ipxe images in that ipxe-bootimgs package are built specifically for x86_64 and this is not denoted in any way.
I believe we need two things to happen here.
1. at the least denote that the packaged files are built for x86_64
2. build the ipxe-bootimgs package for aarch64
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL-7.4-ALT
ipxe-bootimgs-20170123-1.git4e85b27.el7_4.1.noarch
Actual results:
Only x84_64 images are installed without indication that they are x86_64
Expected results:
Make sure the user knows what arch the images are built for and offer aarch64 compatible images.
Additional info:
Getting ipxe to build for 7.4 on arm may require a wholesale upgrade of the package and the rebuilding of a few dependencies. Not sure if its something we want to do for 7.4-alt, but I'll look into it
Comment 3Miroslav Rezanina
2017-10-17 18:07:08 UTC
This is not going to happen for 7.4 as it's too late for such an change.
Regarding 7.5, there's rebase deadline next week so this would mean to do this this week and I'm not sure we're able to handle this.
Sorry, it was a complete thought, the But, is extraneous. I don't have a bug open for this on RHEL8, but AFAIK, we've not forked the RHEL8 userspace yet, have we? Can I just update ipxe for rawhide and f28?
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=25863062
I've built the latest package in rawhide, but it should work just as well on RHEL7. I don't have access to an arm box that I can boot via pxe, so if you could try it I would appreciate it. A few notes:
1) I left all the existing names of files the same, as I don't want to break existing setups. That should be fine given that the only non x86 target that ipxe supports currently is arm running EFI firmware with NICS that support SNP model devices (NICS that have SNP drivers embedded in their option roms). not sure if you have something that can work with that. If not it may be worth considering not enabling arm just yet.
If it works for you, I'll commit it to fedora and do the RHEL port