Comment 4 for bug 1273382
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| Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote Re: [Bug 1273382] Re: should be able to set default arch for unknown hardware | #4 |
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On Wednesday 19 Feb 2014 18:09:33 you wrote:
> "We believe that MAAS will be able to identify all hardware types
> properly by the time we have finished the next round of hardware
> enablement infrastructure so it would make this moot."
>
> I'm willing to make a considerable wager that you're wrong.
>
> There will never be a case when maas is able to correctly enumerate all
> hardware systems prior to their existence. That is simply unrealistic,
> and would require that *all* hardware manufactures hold hardware release
> until Canonical says "it looks good".
Obviously I mean "where you have a hardware driver" in place. Enumerating all
hardware is patently silly :)
> I'm just requesting a simple setting, that already exists.
> Right now, if maas gets a pxe boot request for a MAC address it doesn't
> know, it sends i386/generic. I'm just saying you should let me configure it
> to send $ARCH/$SUBARCH.
We'll come back to this when the driver work is done after our sprint in
March.