Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH osstest 00/10] Add initial support for testing arm32 on arm servers (Calxeda Midway)

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH osstest 00/10] Add initial support 
for testing arm32 on arm servers (Calxeda Midway)"):
> On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 17:13 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
...
> > 16:35 <Diziet> "PDU: support for xenuse controlled machines" has a 
> > mysterious 
> >                ipmitool rune in it which surely doesn't belong.
> > 16:35 <ijc> oh, oops, that's peculiar to this machine
> > 16:35 <ijc> which seems to have a oneshot pxe thing in its firmware....
> > 16:35 <Diziet> Right
> > 16:35 <Diziet> I think if "xenuse --on" doesn't work that means xenuse 
> > needs to 
> >                do the weird rune.
> > 16:36 <ijc> xenuse --on would work though, just the system will boot from 
> > hdd 
> >             not pXE
> > 16:36 <ijc> I have a feeling this is a firmware bug -- the docs suggest the 
> > pxe 
> >             thing should be permanent...
> 
> While I figure this out I made it conditional on a need-ipmi-pxe host
> flag.

This is pretty ugly of course.  It will do for now.  For future
reference, if we want hacks like this they should be in the PDU
arguments, rather than a host flag.

Ian.

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