Bug 1609796 - [RFE] Split ironic ipxe/pxe interfaces to enable multi-arch deployments
Summary: [RFE] Split ironic ipxe/pxe interfaces to enable multi-arch deployments
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openstack-ironic
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: Upstream M2
: 15.0 (Stein)
Assignee: Julia Kreger
QA Contact: mlammon
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-07-30 13:28 UTC by Julia Kreger
Modified: 2019-10-24 16:55 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: openstack-ironic-12.1.2-0.20190615000404.c3cbdb5.el8ost
Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-09-21 11:16:20 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
OpenStack Storyboard 1628069 0 None None None 2018-07-30 13:28:54 UTC
OpenStack gerrit 385572 0 None None None 2018-08-15 17:32:48 UTC
OpenStack gerrit 583407 0 None None None 2018-08-15 17:34:18 UTC
OpenStack gerrit 628494 0 None None None 2019-01-04 15:40:59 UTC
OpenStack gerrit 628495 0 None None None 2019-01-04 15:40:59 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2019:2811 0 None None None 2019-09-21 11:18:42 UTC

Description Julia Kreger 2018-07-30 13:28:54 UTC
Description of problem:

Presently mixed architecture environments must disable iPXE as only iPXE binaries are provided for x86_64 hardware. One _can_ build an ARM iPXE binary, but otherwise the only other option for ARM hardware is GRUB2.

Similarly, ppc64le hardware has a bootloader which reads and interprets syslinux style templates that Ironic creates to perform network booting. That forces operators to globally disable iPXE for both ppc64le and x86_64 hardware.

It has been proposed previously to split the PXE and iPXE boot interfaces. Initial patches are available upstream.

Comment 1 Bob Fournier 2018-08-15 18:49:09 UTC
Marking for consideration in OSP-15, remove if not feasible.

Comment 6 Dmitry Tantsur 2019-01-04 15:41:00 UTC
Complete on ironic side, needs tripleo bits.

Comment 7 Bob Fournier 2019-01-09 02:32:33 UTC
Tripleo patches have merged, moving to POST.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2019-09-21 11:16:20 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2019:2811


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.