Bug 512237
| Summary: | [LTC 5.5 FEAT] N-Port-ID (NPIV) install support for Linux on Power [201957] | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Martin Gracik <mgracik> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Alexander Todorov <atodorov> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 5.5 | CC: | andriusb, aparanja, atodorov, borgan, cward, dallan, ddumas, dmach, jjarvis, tao |
| Target Milestone: | beta | Keywords: | FutureFeature, OtherQA |
| Target Release: | 5.5 | ||
| Hardware: | ppc64 | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-03-30 08:01:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | 503235 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 481160, 531114, 533941, 557292 | ||
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Description
IBM Bug Proxy
2009-07-16 19:10:42 UTC
------- Comment From brking.com 2009-09-10 14:48 EDT------- This is what needs to change in the installer as I understand it: 1. Add ibmvfc.ko to /modules/modules.cgz in the initrd 2. Add the following lines to /modules/module-info: ibmvfc scsi "IBM Power Virtual Fibre Channel" 3. Update /modules/modules.alias to add an entry for ibmvfc: alias vio:TfcpSIBM,vfc-client* ibmvfc 4. Update /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/loader/module-info in stage2.img to include the following: ibmvfc scsi_hostadapter "Power6 Virtual FC" 5. Update kudzu to understand virtual FC. There is a separate bug opened for that (LTC53625/RH503235). With these changes we were able to get the RHEL installer working with Virtual FC support. The only thing that still does not work is the boot-device setting is not getting set to the installed device at the end of install. I wasn't able to track down how that gets setup in the installer. Something has to call nvsetenv to set this up, but the only code I found was in ybin which didn't seem to make sense as that didn't seem to support a lot of supported pSeries devices. Any idea what might still be missing? On the assumption that this REALLY is limited to the work description in Comment 1, I am adding a dev ack for the anaconda portion of this. If it turns into any additional work, I will have to remove the ack and move this to a later release. IBM is signed up to test and provide feedback. This enhancement request was evaluated by the full Red Hat Enterprise Linux team for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor release. As a result of this evaluation, Red Hat has tentatively approved inclusion of this feature in the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update minor release. While it is a goal to include this enhancement in the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the enhancement is not yet committed for inclusion in the next minor release pending the next phase of actual code integration and successful Red Hat and partner testing. Will be fixed in version 11.1.2.197 ------- Comment From brking.com 2010-02-10 10:11 EDT------- Successfully installed RHEL 5.5 Beta to a Virtual Fibre channel LUN. moving to VERIFIED as per comment #11 An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0194.html |