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action #76951

Check if new firmware for power8.o.o exists and remove os-autoinst workarounds again when according machine settings are applied when necessary

Added by okurz over 1 year ago. Updated about 12 hours ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
-
Target version:
QA - future
Start date:
2020-10-25
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Description

Motivation

New firmware might help to prevent qemu failing to run. If we find new firmware we could remove the parameters in os-autoinst again, see clone source ticket

Suggestions

  • Look for new firmware for the machine

  • Check if the new firmware means we do not need https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/pull/1554 anymore, if yes, remove again, if no, remove again but add according settings to the machine settings in openQA, this is also what "adamw" did:

[04/11/2020 17:41:52] <adamw> okurz: i don't really know what the consequences of it are, but i tend to the idea that qemu wouldn't be trying to make it the default without reason :) i can ask some virt guys if you like
[04/11/2020 17:42:09] <adamw> okurz: but on the whole, yes, it seems to be it'd be more appropriate to put it in your templates rather than hardwire it into os-autoinst.
[04/11/2020 17:42:29] <adamw> that's what i was doing when we had the problem (i was setting an older machine type in our ppc64le Machine vars)

Related issues

Related to openQA Infrastructure - action #63142: Upgrade firmware of ppc9 machine redcurrantRejected2020-02-05

Copied from openQA Infrastructure - action #75259: 100% of powerpc tests incomplete auto_review:"(?s)Running on power8.*qemu-system-ppc64: Requested safe cache capability level not supported by kvm":retryResolved2020-10-25

History

#1 Updated by okurz over 1 year ago

  • Copied from action #75259: 100% of powerpc tests incomplete auto_review:"(?s)Running on power8.*qemu-system-ppc64: Requested safe cache capability level not supported by kvm":retry added

#2 Updated by okurz over 1 year ago

  • Related to action #63142: Upgrade firmware of ppc9 machine redcurrant added

#3 Updated by okurz over 1 year ago

  • Assignee set to nicksinger

as you want to involve aeisner could you please also ask him about power8.o.o

#4 Updated by okurz over 1 year ago

  • Subject changed from Check if new firmware for power8.o.o exists to Check if new firmware for power8.o.o exists and remove os-autoinst workarounds again when according machine settings are applied when necessary
  • Description updated (diff)

#5 Updated by okurz over 1 year ago

  • Target version changed from future to Ready

nicksinger as discussed you will create a ticket to infra and CC osd-admins@suse.de and aeisner

#6 Updated by nicksinger over 1 year ago

  • Target version changed from Ready to future

I've created an infra ticket which you should already see on the osd-admins ML (Subject: [openQA][ppc] Please upgrade the firmware(s) for power8.opensuse.org). RT might reveal our ticket id in some minutes too…

#7 Updated by nicksinger about 12 hours ago

  • Assignee deleted (nicksinger)

I think we cannot expect anybody else then us to take this task. As I'm not planning to work on this task any time soon I unassign myself. It could be worth to do some kind of mob/pair session on this topic.

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