action #139271
Updated by okurz 6 months ago
## Motivation
In FC Basement we have currently unused PowerPC hardware that maybe can be put to good use, namely
* mania https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=object&tab=default&object_id=9588
## Acceptance criteria
* **AC1:** *DONE* mania is actively used
* **AC2:** production openQA OSD jobs are able to execute successfully on mania
* **AC3:** *DONE* Our inventory management system is up-to-date regarding the use and configuration of mania
* **AC4:** *DONE* Workerconf has the IPMI command to access the machine
## Suggestions
* *DONE* Offer the machines to be investigated for use in coordination with hsehic, former coordinator for those machines
* Ensure the machine is used for something useful, e.g. openQA OSD worker
* *DONE* Add machine to DHCP/DNS config in https://gitlab.suse.de/OPS-Service/salt/
* *DONE* Boot the machine either over network or local install medium
* *DONE* Install openSUSE Leap 15.4
* Deploy OSD openQA worker following somewhere from https://wiki.suse.net/index.php/OpenQA and https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa
* Ensure there are no related alerts
* Optionally: Help with #136130 as mania could be the third machine to bisect where problems come from
## Out of scope
ppc64le multi-machine jobs -> #136130
## Further details
Potentially interesting and related: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1041747, never fixed, workarounds mentioned like `QEMUCPUS=1; QEMUTHREADS=1` which likely should not be needed anymore on recent OS kernels.
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