HP moonshot platforms should use a 9600/hw flow control console

Bug #1328280 reported by dann frazier
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Bug Description

[Impact]
HP recommends defaulting to a 9600 baud/hardware flow control console on moonshot cartridges to avoid overwhelming the management processors in fully populated systems.
[Test Case]
Make sure you can boot w/ a 9600 baud system
[Regression Potential]
If someone had such hardware already in production and upgraded flash-kernel after install, they'd see a mismatch between kernel console speed and the getty. Luckily these platforms are not yet generally available so we don't need to worry about that :)

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dann frazier (dannf)
Changed in flash-kernel (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
dann frazier (dannf)
description: updated
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello dann, or anyone else affected,

Accepted flash-kernel into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flash-kernel/3.0~rc.4ubuntu49.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in flash-kernel (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package flash-kernel - 3.0~rc.4ubuntu49.1

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flash-kernel (3.0~rc.4ubuntu49.1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Add U-Boot environment configuration support (LP: #1328597)
  * Explicitly lower the console speed for HP ProLiant m400 cartridges to 9600
    and enable hardware flow control as required by the HP moonshot chassis
    (LP: #1328280)
  * Enable U-Boot environment support for X-Gene platforms
  * Use filesystem agnostic "load" command instead of assuming ext4
  * Add support for HP ProLiant m800 cartridges (LP: #1326437)
 -- dann frazier <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:09:02 -0600

Changed in flash-kernel (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
tags: removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package flash-kernel - 3.0~rc.4ubuntu53

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flash-kernel (3.0~rc.4ubuntu53) utopic; urgency=medium

  * Merge in remaining trusty SRU changes:
    * Add U-Boot environment configuration support (LP: #1328597)
    * HP Moonshot Cartridges: Use $baudrate from u-boot environment as
      serial console speed (LP: #1373628)
    * HP Moonshot Cartridges: Enable hardware flow control as required by
      the HP moonshot chassis (LP: #1328280)
    * Enable U-Boot environment support for X-Gene platforms
    * Use filesystem agnostic "load" command instead of assuming ext4
    * Add support for HP ProLiant m800 cartridges (LP: #1326437)
    * Set required boot arguments for HP ProLiant m800 cartridges
      (LP: #1373659)
 -- dann frazier <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:20:15 -0600

Changed in flash-kernel (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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