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WorksOnArm / equinix-metal-arm64-cluster

Arm and Equinix Metal have partnered to make powerful Neoverse based Armv8 bare metal infrastructure including latest generation Ampere systems — available for open source software developers to build, test and optimize for Arm64 architecture.
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netboot.xyz arm64 support #179

Closed antonym closed 3 years ago

antonym commented 4 years ago

Name, email, company, job title

Antony Messerli, antony@mes.ser.li, Rackspace, Principal Engineer

Project Title and description

netboot.xyz, Leverages the iPXE project to network boot Operating System installers and utilities from an easy to use menu.

Which members of the community would benefit from your work?

Anyone wanting to quickly boot their OS selection on ARM from the BIOS

Is the code that you’re going to run 100% open source? If so, what is the URL or URLs where it is located?

100% open source https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz

What infrastructure (computing resources and network access) do you need? (see: https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/)?

A single ARM server or two with remote console access to see if I can get OS support working on the distros that support ARM. Long term it would be good to have occasional access to test new distros or features. Usage is mainly for testing booting into the netboot.xyz ARM binary, and testing if Operating System options load and install correctly. Servers would be spun down once testing is completed.

Please state your contributions to the open source community and any other relevant initiatives

netboot.xyz, OpenStack, and various other OSS projects

Brag a little bit about yourself, please! Previously worked with Packet to get netboot.xyz and iPXE functionality working on x86, so hello again!

vielmetti commented 4 years ago

@cayu53 please take a look; this would be especially valuable for proving out operating system combos that Packet is not directly supporting.

cayu53 commented 4 years ago

@vielmetti Agree. Would be good to validate on Arm and as a result have Arm support built-in / available from netboot.xyz and blog about this once tested/available.

vielmetti commented 4 years ago

OK, we're all approved. I am on deadline for @cayu53 for today and tomorrow, and once those deadline obligations are in, I'll set this up.

vielmetti commented 4 years ago

I've asked @edolnx to help me with this - we are traveling to Techcon so I'll tack this onto the Techcon milestone.

stale[bot] commented 4 years ago

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

vielmetti commented 4 years ago

@antonym - there is a problem that @stratakis ran into at https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz/issues/572 wherein the arch string for CentOS 8 needs to be aarch64 rather than arm64.

stale[bot] commented 4 years ago

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

vielmetti commented 4 years ago

Closing for now, to be resolved upstream.

vielmetti commented 3 years ago

Reopening to reflect updated information.

see https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz/issues/162

stale[bot] commented 3 years ago

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

pgmwoa commented 3 years ago

Closing the ticket as not considered for WoA program