Support userdata on QEMU PPC64
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- Dominant language
- Go
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Description
Feature Request
Environment
QEMU ppc64
Desired Feature
Support reading an Ignition config from userdata. fw_cfg is not supported on ppc64.
Other Information
SMBIOS OEM strings are also not supported; see https://github.com/coreos/ignition/issues/656#issuecomment-441898962.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing how Ignition discovers userdata on supported platforms, then compare those paths with QEMU ppc64, where the issue reports that fw_cfg and SMBIOS OEM strings are unavailable. Done means defining and implementing a supported userdata source for ppc64 and verifying that an Ignition config can be read during first boot.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100