Support common operational tasks in baremetal driver
Add support for commonly-requested operational tasks (eg., hardware discovery, BIOS configuration, firmware updates) to the Nova Baremetal Driver.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- aeva black
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Superseded
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Deferred
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- aeva black
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This will require either (or possibly both) new API or new RPC for passing messages to/from the discovery and hw configuration ramdisk / agent / what ever. I would like to defer any further details of this design until it's clear whether the baremetal driver will split out of Nova.This will require either (or possibly both) new API or new RPC for passing messages to/from the discovery and hw configuration ramdisk / agent / what ever. I would like to defer any further details of this design until it's clear whether the baremetal driver will split out of Nova.
Marking this blueprint as definition: Drafting. If you are still working on this, please re-submit via nova-specs. If not, please mark as obsolete, and add a quick comment to describe why. --johnthetubaguy (20th March 2014)
Marking as superceded, as all new work around this is going into Ironic.
-- Devananda, 21 March 2014
