On 12/01/18 15:49, Paul Belanger wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:17:33AM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: >> Wu dniu 12.01.2018 o 01:09, Ian Wienand pisze: >>> On 01/10/2018 08:41 PM, Gema Gomez wrote: >>>> 1. Control-plane project that will host a nodepool builder with 8 vCPUs, >>>> 8 GB RAM, 1TB storage on a Cinder volume for the image building scratch >>>> space. >>> Does this mean you're planning on using diskimage-builder to produce >>> the images to run tests on? I've seen occasional ARM things come by, >>> but of course diskimage-builder doesn't have CI for it (yet :) so it's >>> status is probably "unknown". >> >> I had a quick look at diskimage-builder tool. >> >> It looks to me that you always build MBR based image with one partition. >> This will have to be changed as AArch64 is UEFI based platform (both >> baremetal and VM) so disk needs to use GPT for partitioning and EFI >> System Partition needs to be present (with grub-efi binary on it). >> > This is often the case when bringing new images online, that some changes to > DIB > will be required to support them. I suspect somebody with access to AArch64 > hardware will first need to run build-image.sh[1] and paste the build.log. > That > will build an image locally for you using our DIB elements. > > [1] > http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/project-config/tree/tools/build-image.sh
Yep, that won't be an issue. Will do that on Monday. >> I am aware that you like to build disk images on your own but have you >> considered using virt-install with generated preseed/kickstart files? It >> would move several arch related things (like bootloader) to be handled >> by distribution rules instead of handling them again in code. >> > I don't believe we want to look at using a new tool to build all our images, > switching to virt-install would be a large change. There are reasons why we > build images from scratch and don't believe switching to virt-install help > with that >> >> Sent a patch to make it choose proper grub package on aarch64. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-Infra mailing list >> OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-Infra mailing list > OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra > -- Gema Gomez-Solano Tech Lead, SDI Linaro Ltd IRC: gema@#linaro on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
