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Update firmware of our powerKVM machines (QA-Power8-3, QA-Power8-4, QA-Power8-5)

Added by nicksinger about 5 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Low
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Category:
-
Target version:
Start date:
2019-10-17
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Description

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153543 requests a firmware upgrade.

QA-Power8-{3..5}.qa.suse.de <- FSP
QA-Power8-{3..5}-kvm.qa.suse.de <- Linux running as hypervisor

power8-3 is configured but seems down (what happened? Is it even used still?)


Related issues 1 (0 open1 closed)

Related to openQA Infrastructure - action #65130: Upgrade of firmware(s) for cloudberry (power9 machine)Rejectednicksinger2020-04-01

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Actions #1

Updated by okurz over 4 years ago

  • Target version set to Ready
Actions #2

Updated by okurz about 4 years ago

  • Tags changed from caching, openQA, sporadic, arm, ipmi, worker to worker
Actions #3

Updated by okurz about 4 years ago

  • Priority changed from Normal to Low
  • Target version changed from Ready to future

upgrading firmware might help but a workaround was found, the bug was resolved as WONTFIX and likely powerKVM has no future. Removing from our backlog

Actions #4

Updated by okurz almost 4 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Blocked
  • Assignee set to okurz
Actions #5

Updated by okurz over 3 years ago

  • Related to action #65130: Upgrade of firmware(s) for cloudberry (power9 machine) added
Actions #6

Updated by okurz over 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Blocked to Feedback

https://infra.nue.suse.com/SelfService/Display.html?id=180841 was resolved without any proper comment by gschlotter. What I remember is that nicksinger asked me to hold my feet still while he tries to resolve the situation :)

@nicksinger I would appreciate your feedback on the current situation.

Actions #7

Updated by nicksinger over 3 years ago

I tried to find my comment regarding my efforts upgrading QA-Power8-5 - couldn't find it. Basically I fail to upload the firmware onto the machine because the required toolchain is so old that I can't build a functional pflash for the BMC of these machines (glibc was too old on these BMCs). Somebody on the ML offered me a binary which is supposed to work but I really don't want to execute a random binary sent from somebody on a mailinglist which is accessing the BMC of our machines. So I'm currently stuck and out of ideas how to continue with these habanero machines.

Actions #8

Updated by okurz over 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Rejected

As discussed with nsinger we are not aware of further problems after we fixed the boot problems software side in #68053 so we can also close this ticket as rejected as we did not conduct the firmware upgrades.

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