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. :)
Bruce Potter STSM, Linux & AIX Cluster Development, IBM,
Poughkeepsie, NY
Email: b...@us.ibm.com Phone: external: 845-433-7073, internal: TL
293-7073
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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