Petitboot v1.5.0 tagged

Samuel Mendoza-Jonas sam at mendozajonas.com
Thu Jul 13 13:54:24 AEST 2017


Petitboot v1.5.0 has been tagged[0].

Petitboot v1.5.0 contains the following fixes over v1.4.3:

- Add support for 'pending' network requests.
If the network isn't ready this allows network loads to be queued up for
later when an interface has connectivity.

- LVM support.
Petitboot now supports LVM! This should work transparently and allow the
use of LVM boot partitions.

- Avoid race condition in interface renaming.
Petitboot now waits for confirmation from udev that each network
interface is ready before configuring them. This avoids an issue where
udev and Petitboot would race and interfaces would fail to be renamed
consistently.

- Improvements to pb-sos.
pb-sos now collects Skiboot logs when available and actually compresses
instead of just claiming to.

Petitboot v1.4.3 contains the following fixes over v1.4.2:

- Fix format of "Get Device ID" IPMI request.

- Don't fail platform init early if NVRAM fails.

Petitboot v1.4.2 contains the following fixes over v1.4.1:

- Treat ttyS* and tty* consoles separately.
This fixes an issue where the user would lose console on certain
OpenPOWER machines.

- Handle 'fb0' missing on some machines.

- Avoid disabling autoboot in config if IPMI override set.

- Don't add infinite slashes in the Boot Editor.

- Fix useless error message in nc-sysinfo to mention actual address.


[0] Technically there were two other minor releases since v1.4.1 too,
lending support to the idea that perhaps Sam should automate these
emails..


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