Summary list of ARs from this meeting: AR for Bryce: Find out exact configuration of ia64 itanium 2 in the OSDL lab AR for Bryce (after he's caught up :-) upgrade the CPU test scripts to include more checking and write a "stress test" wrapper script AR for Martine: 1. Verify that the managed hotswap interface will indeed be implemented by OpenHPI. 2. Find out if the people currently in the hotplug SIG interested in platform management would like to be added to the new system management list. 3. What member companies are interested in hotplug support for SATA driver. ################################# Attendees: George Mann, individual contributor Mary Meredith, OSDL Mark Wong, OSDL Bryce Harrington, OSDL Bruce Vessey, Unisys Natalie Protasevich, Unisys Martine Silbermann, HP * Report from Paris F2F Martine gave a quick report on the whole OSDL F2F and briefly presented the slides for the Hotplug SIG status. A copy of these slides can be found on the OSDL website at: http://groups.osdl.org/apps/org/workgroup/dcl_tech_board/download.php/10 64/HotplugSIGSlides.sxi On the items marked yellow the following resolutions were taken: - for the milestones for memory hot-remove, Jim Wasko Chair of the Technical Working Group and manager of some of the key IBM developers took an AR to have his people generate a test plan. As a complement to that effort, Bryce and Martine will use the OLS paper on hotplug memory to generate a list as well. Eventually we'll dedicate one of the hotplug con call to discuss the milestones and debate what tests should be developed against them. - for platform management, Martine send some e-mails to interested parties and had some hallway conversations at the Paris meeting that all seem to indicate that the interest is still high to keep this project active in the SIG and that the activity level will increase. We had a question on whether OpenHPI plans to support control versus just monitoring. The OpenHPI website states that "HPI includes resource modeling; access to and control over sensor, control, watchdog, and inventory data associated with resources; abstracted System Event Log interfaces; hardware events and alerts; and a managed hotswap interface." Martine will verify that the managed hotswap interface will indeed be implemented by OpenHPI. At the Paris meeting there was a special session on platform management led by IBM with a presentation from Sean Dague on "System Management using WBEM", that presentation can be found at http://groups.osdl.org/apps/org/workgroup/dcl_tech_board/download.php/10 73/System_Management_Using_WBEM.sxi This session is going to lead to more discussion on a dedicated mailing list. Martine will find out if the people currently in the hotplug SIG interested in platform management would like to be added to this new list. During the status report to the technical group one of the member company noted that there was no SIG activity in hotplug IO. His company is interested in hotplug support for the SATA driver and if that is of interest to other SIG members as well the SIG will create a project for it. This item was added to the "yellow list" that Jim will present to the steering committee. Martine has an AR to find out who besides EMC is interested in SATA. During the F2F (not in the SIG presentation but during DCL TWG discussions) the subject of virtualization came up. One of the questions was "should we create a new section in the capabilities doc for virtualization or should it be spread across existing sections?". Also it was decided that a separate discussion on virtualization needed to get started, either in the form of a mailing list or if needed a new SIG. * Memory hotplug regression testing. The hardware is now up and running and has the proper firmware installed to support LPAR. There's still an issue: patches that are needed to make partitions share drives and network are integrated in some distros (RHEL, SLES) but OSDL doesn't have the licenses to use those distros so Mike Kravetz will provide those patches directly to OSDL. Bryce automated the pull of patches from Dave's tree and implemented a semi-automated analysis process of the compilation results. * CPU hotplug patches submissions. Li Shaohua's patches have been accepted, Natalie will merge her changes against those patches. * Others Bryce will put in a request to OSDL services to find out what the exact configuration of ia64 itanium 2 in the lab is (particularly memory size). Next meeting is scheduled for June 7th at 11:00am -12:00pm PST, 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST Thanks for your participation. Martine J. Silbermann
