Hi List
During the last 6 months, we shipped 12.04.2, the most recent point
release for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This included the new hardware enablement
kernel from quantal (3.5) which is great; however this update (which was
opt-in) broke quite a few DKMS packages which are popular with server
users; I specifically worked on openvswitch and iscsitarget but I'm
aware of other impacts.
I think that we should try to deal with this more pro-actively for
12.04.3 which will include the hardware enablement kernel from raring
(3.8). This has some nice features including native VXLAN support which
will be interesting to OpenStack Havana Quantum users.
So for 12.04.3 I propose we undertake the following server team activities:
1) As soon as the HWE 3.8 kernel is available (which I think should be
soon/already), we regression test all server related DKMS packages; we
need a list of these - I'll start with:
iscsitarget
openvswitch
Bugs should be raise for any failures introduced by the new kernel version.
2) Fix bugs; this might actually mean introducing a new upstream version
of a DKMS based package.
Specifically I'd like to see if we could introduce a new openvswitch
stable release; 1.4.x is going to get extremely distro patch heavy to
fully support the 3.8 kernel (which makes me very uncomfortable),
whereas 1.9.0 (the next stable release) already supports up to 3.8.
This might mean introducing a parallel 1.9.0 package alongside the 1.4.x
package we already have.
The objective of this work is to ensure that server users have a well
documented and smooth upgrade path to using the 3.8 hardware enablement
kernel on Ubuntu 12.04.
Anyone want to add more packages to that list to test/fix?
Cheers
James
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