Hardware enablement support for PowerKVM

Merged in with revno 2271 into lp:~maas-maintainers/maas/1.5

Debdiff for utopic and trusty sru.

The branch was release in 1.5.2

Fixed in release for SRU, http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lutostag/ubuntu/trusty/maas/1.5.2/revision/63

Hello Greg, or anyone else affected,

Accepted maas into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maas/1.5.2+bzr2282-0ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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I found a bug related to this code in 1.5.2: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1328231

Hello Greg, or anyone else affected,

Accepted maas into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maas/1.5.2+bzr2282-0ubuntu0.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Tested maas in trusty-proposed version: 1.5.2+bzr2282-0ubuntu0.2 on powerKVM
IBM_PowerKVM release 2.1.0 build 17 Gold (pkvm2_1)
Firmware: FW810.00 (SV810_053)

The following tests were performed:

1. Created an instance on powerKVM host and the new node automatically added to maas
2. Enlisted all the powerKVM nodes into maas
3. Commissioning the node
4. Installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on the node with default installer

This bug was fixed in the package maas - 1.5.2+bzr2282-0ubuntu0.2

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maas (1.5.2+bzr2282-0ubuntu0.2) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * debian/control:
   - Add missing dependency in maas-cluster-controller for grub-common
     (LP: #1328231)
   - Move dependency from maas-cluster-controller to maas-provisioningserver
     for python-seamicroclient (LP: #1332532)

maas (1.5.2+bzr2282-0ubuntu0.1) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Remove workaround for fixed Django bug 1311433 (LP: #1311433)
    - Ensure that validation errors are returned when adding a node over
      the API and its cluster controller is not contactable. (LP: #1305061)
    - Hardware enablement support for PowerKVM (LP: #1325038)
    - Shorten the time taken for a cluster to initially connect to the region
      via RPC to around 2 seconds (LP: #1317682)
    - Faster DHCP leases parser (LP: #1305102)
    - Documentation fixed explaining how to enable an ephemeral backdoor
      (LP: #1321696)
    - Use probe-and-enlist-hardware to enlist all virtual machine inside
      a libvirt machine, allow password qemu+ssh connections.
      (LP: #1315155, LP: #1315157)
    - Rename ppc64el boot loader to PowerKVM (LP: #1315154)
    - Fix NodeForm's is_valid() method so that it uses Django's way of setting
      errors on forms instead of putting text in self.errors['architecture']
      (LP: #1301465)
    - Change BootMethods to return their own IReader per-request, update method
      names to reflect new usage. (LP: #1315154)
    - Return early and stop the DHCP server when the list of managed interfaces
      of the nodegroup is empty. (LP: #1324944)
    - Fix invalid attribute references in the VirshSSH class. Added more test
      for the VirshSSH class. (LP: #1324966)
  * debian/control:
    - Add missing dependency in maas-cluster-controller for python-pexpect
      (LP: #1322151)
 -- Greg Lutostanski <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:10:47 -0500

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