Also if you have any points you would like confirmation on you may want to mail kernel-t...@lists.ubuntu.com list or pop into the #ubuntu-kernel channel.
-Thanks, Antonio On 05/15/2013 08:03 AM, James Page wrote: > Hi David > > On 15/05/13 03:25, David Medberry (Med) wrote: >> Does the migration to the HWE kernel in Precise (at some point) effect >> the UCA work? I understand that after the next point release, the HWE >> kernel will likely be the default. >> >> Ref: >> http://goo.gl/erP8b (UDS Session on 12.04.x LTS with HWE Kernel) >> >> This session was just ahead of the UCA session (and I was unable to >> attend the the first session so missed it but replayed it later in the >> day.) >> >> There was a bit more discussion in the Kernel Misc (but this also took >> place without much representation from the cloud/server folks though >> Brad Figg did at least carry the discussion into the meeting.) Leann is >> looking for requirements from cloud/server. > > Yeah - I wanted to make that meeting but I was participating on one in > the cloud track. We have a round-table tomorrow - I'll ensure its > raised there. > >> My concern is >> a) What will we be testing in UCA (always the original precise LTS >> kernel stream) > > That's what we test with right now but there are some features in later > kernels not related to hardware enablement that will appeal to cloud > archive users. For example, the Ceph RBD driver in the 3.5 kernel is > much more solid that in 3.2; likewise later kernels have support for > VXLAN (for which support should land in OpenStack during Havana). > >> b) What will we be suggesting "new" users of UCA use > > I think that depends on "I understand that after the next point release, > the HWE kernel will likely be the default." i.e. if all new installs and > upgrades will switch to the HWE kernel, then we make that > recommendation; however if that is not the case we should stick with 3.2 > kernel as shipped in 12.04 as the base recommendation. > >> c) Are we going to be locking out newer hardware (ie, dell/HP servers) >> if we only test/qual UCA with the original. > > Hopefully we can avoid that. > >> This sounds like another potential test matrix explosion (and maybe it >> is being covered by already testing in Raring/Saucy + Precise) but I >> thought I'd air the question. > > Its covered at-least partially by the fact that we test both for the > main distro and for the UCA for precise - but I think we need to beef up > coverage. Right now this is a little awkward to support, but with the > switch to OpenStack based testing of OpenStack, we should be able to > support this more easily. > > Thanks for raising this. > > Cheers > > James > -- Antonio Rosales Ubuntu Server & Cloud Workloads Canonical Ltd -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
