Hello Carlos, On Thu May 14 11:26, Carlos Cardenas wrote: > Howdy, > > As many of y'all might have seen yesterday one the ONIE mailing list, ONIE > 2015.05 was released ( > http://lists.opencompute.org/pipermail/opencompute-onie/2015-May/000631.html). > This brings the number of publicly supported platforms to 32 and we picked > up another vendor: Centec.
This is great to see the open networking community thriving and growing. > > While this is a fine milestone in it's own right, I would like to focus on > one key nugget in this release: ONIE NOS Validation ( > https://github.com/opencomputeproject/onie/wiki/NOS-Validation). > > Starting with release 2015.05, ONIE is now able to perform NOS Validation > to ensure a given NOS complies with the ONIE Software Contract: > * No modification to ONIE (files, partition layout, etc...) > * The ability for a user to uninstall a NOS and install another NOS > * The ability for a user to update ONIE after a NOS has been installed > * The ability for a user to enter ONIE's rescue mode after a NOS has been > installed > * The ability for a user to install and uninstall a NOS and update ONIE > when a Diagnostic Image is present on the device > > ONIE Compliance Testing has been focused on ensuring that hardware vendors > adhere to the ONIE spec, starting with this release, we have expanded it to > include NOS vendors as well ( > https://github.com/opencomputeproject/onie/wiki/Testing-and-Certification). Does this include a way for NOS vendors to perform a self test? That would be great for NOS vendors to self-verify their implementations. We should also put ONL through the process, just to see what happens. The more operating systems tested the better we can make the tests and specifications. Cheers, Curt _______________________________________________ opencompute-networking mailing list Unsubscribe: http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/options/opencompute-networking opencompute-networking@lists.opencompute.org http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-networking
