#1558 Exception for opal-prd daemon to be enabled by default on ppc64le architecture
Closed None Opened 8 years ago by hegdevasant.

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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Starting_services_by_default

We have new daemon on ppc64le architecture (opal-prd - OPAL Processor Recovery Diagnostics daemon). This daemon handles hardware-specific recovery processes, and should be run as a background system process after boot. It interacts with OPAL firmware to capture hardware error causes, log events to the management processor, and handles recoverable errors where suitable. Without this daemon we will not be able to handle hardware errors (like processor checkstop). Hence we would like to enable this daemon by default on ppc64le architecture.

Note that its local-only daemon and listens to /dev/opal-prd .

It would be really nice to have an official FESCO exception.


By the rules at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:DefaultServices, you do not need FESCo permission for this. Please file a Bugzilla ticket against the 'fedora-release' package that includes the exact systemd units that need to start by default and I will add them to the package.

I do have one additional question, though: Do you build this daemon on other platforms, and if so will it exit gracefully on those platforms? We don't currently have the ability to do per-architecture presets, so if this daemon ever appears on x86_64, etc. we will need to be sure that it doesn't throw errors there.

Replying to [comment:1 sgallagh]:

By the rules at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:DefaultServices, you do not need FESCo permission for this. Please file a Bugzilla ticket against the 'fedora-release' package that includes the exact systemd units that need to start by default and I will add them to the package.

Thanks. I already have bug (#1312018) for this. I will adjust components in the same bug.

I do have one additional question, though: Do you build this daemon on other platforms, and if so will it exit gracefully on those platforms? We don't currently have the ability to do per-architecture presets, so if this daemon ever appears on x86_64, etc. we will need to be sure that it doesn't throw errors there.

No. Its ppc64le specific daemon (for OpenPower system). I don't think we will ever build this package on other platform.

-Vasant

Thanks. I already have bug (#1312018) for this. I will adjust components in the same bug.

Sorry. I couldn't figureout your email ID. Hence I've not CCed you. Let me know your email ID in case if you are not able to access above bug. I will CC you.

-Vasant

Looks like this was all taken care of in the bug, etc.

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