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Bug 1199208

Summary: remove unused POWER drivers
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek>
Component: ovirt-engineAssignee: Shmuel Melamud <smelamud>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Artyom <alukiano>
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Version: 3.6.0CC: gklein, istein, lpeer, lsurette, michal.skrivanek, rbalakri, Rhev-m-bugs, srevivo, ykaul
Target Milestone: ovirt-3.6.0-rc   
Target Release: 3.6.0   
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Description Michal Skrivanek 2015-03-05 16:17:03 UTC 
based on an offline discussion we'd like to drop some drivers from all supported PPC OSes for 3.6/RHEL 7.2

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> > for ppc we have following drivers:
> > network: VirtIO, VirtIO_SCSI, SPAPR_VSCSI
> > storage: VirtIO, spaprVlan, e1000, rtl8139
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> Is it too late to remove e1000 and rtl8139?  There's really no reason
> you'd need those instead of virtio or spapr-vlan, and they complicate
> matters.  We've already disabled them in the RHEL hypervisor, and I
> gather e1000 doesn't work (though rtl8139 does) in the IBM hypervisor.


well, it's too late for RHEV For Power released last October, but certainly
not late for RHEV 3.6/RHEL 7.2. It's configurable per guest OS
Comment 1 Ilanit Stein 2015-04-29 15:07:40 UTC 
For verification: 
Choose on cluster ppc64 architecture, and check that for a new VM added, there are no e1000 and rtl8139 options, when adding network interface.
Comment 2 Artyom 2015-05-03 13:23:00 UTC 
Wait for 3.6 RHEL7.2 ppc build
Comment 3 Artyom 2015-07-13 12:52:32 UTC 
Verified on ovirt-engine-3.6.0-0.0.master.20150627185750.git6f063c1.el6.noarch
Available network device types:
VirtiO
sPARP VLAN
PCI Passthrough