AWS: enable FPGA support in amd64 AWS kernels
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-aws (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Kamal Mostafa |
Bug Description
CONFIG_FPGA needs to be enabled in linux-aws amd64 kernels (thereby supplying the fpga-mgr module), to support the AWS F1 instance type.
Delivering the fpga-mgr module via the 'linux-
This config change only needs to be specifically applied to linux-aws/focal, since:
linux-aws/bionic (aws-5.4) will pick it up from focal;
linux-aws-groovy already has it enabled;
linux-aws-xenial cannot support F1 anyway.
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[Impact]
* Since fpga-mgr is inadvertently omitted from linux-aws, use of the F1 instance type requires the user to manually install linux-virtual or linux-generic, which is an annoyance.
* This patch just enables the module in linux-aws as we do for other kernels.
* Fwiw, fpga-mgr is actually (needlessly) already enabled for linux-aws/arm64 but disabled for linux-aws/amd64 (where its needed for F1).
[Test Case]
* Install the linux-modules-
[Regression Potential]
* None.
CVE References
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in linux-aws (Ubuntu Focal): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
assignee: | nobody → Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa) |
Changed in linux-aws (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa) → nobody |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
Changed in linux-aws (Ubuntu Focal): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
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