Re: [xcat-user] bmcsetup and wvid - supporting new hardware

Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:16:10 -0700

Thanks Bruce!

Unfortunately we are under a somewhat tight deadline to try to port these changes. I would love to see this hardware support added, but I doubt you guys could commit to having it done in 30 days (and I would never ask such a thing anyway!).

It sounds like there isn't really a "standard" for supporting third party plugins that add hardware support, is this correct? If so we will go forward with how we did it in the past, maybe clean the changes up a bit so it's not quite as messy, then afterwards we can see about sending the patches in to get it added to the stock codebase.
 




On 7/29/2013 2:42 PM, Bruce M Potter wrote:

Well, the best approach is to sign the contributor's agreement and send us the patches so we can integrate them into the code base, so that they will be in future updates.  We are happy to integrate changes for support of dell hw, because we know that will useful to many of our users.  We (at IBM) just have a hard time testing our code on dell hw, because we don't have much of it here.  :)

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From: Russell Jones <russ...@jonesmail.me>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Date: 07/29/2013 02:29 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] bmcsetup and wvid - supporting new hardware




Hi Devs,

Any feedback to assist with this? I just want to ensure we follow the right path and not shoot ourselves in the foot again :)




On 7/9/2013 5:59 PM, Russell Jones wrote:
    Hi all,

    I am working on upgrading an older xCAT 2.3 cluster to 2.8.1. One of the issues my predecessors ran into is both bmcsetup and wvid not supporting specific hardware at the time, and as a result a lot of customization were done to the stock xCAT code to add support. Specifically:
    • bmcsetup - Added "if" statements to several spots to prevent some functions from running if the hardware isn't IBM. These functions caused bmcsetup to fail on certain Dell hardware.
    • wvid - Edited several modules (ipmi.pm, blade.pm) to add support for older IBM blade hardware, Dell iKVM, c6100's, etc. Will launch appropriate rvid scripts based on columns we are keying off of.


    I am trying to avoid porting these changes to 2.8.1's code base, as it makes future upgrades very difficult. Specifically, I do not want to edit any of the stock files provided by the xCAT packages if I can help it.

    Is there a better way of adding support for unsupported hardware to wvid and bmcsetup? Any recommendations on how best to go about it?


    Thanks so much!






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