POWER9 backports for ScalingStack

PPA description

These packages are all needed for both bos01 and bos02 except for libvirt, which bos01 gets a new enough version of via the Ubuntu Cloud Archive.

Summary of changes:
 - libvirt:
   - add POWER9 to cpu_map.xml
   - patch virt-aa-helper as per LP:1709818 for newer qemu
 - qemu:
   - backport from focal
     - drop to debhelper 9
     - disable features with unavailable dependencies
     - butcher debian/rules to deal with debhelper incompatibilities
   - patch to revert format of `qemu-img info` for xenial Nova
   - patch to re-enable kvm support for ppc/power
   - BUG: does not enable and start qemu-kvm.service (dh-systemd problems)
 - slof (POWER firmware)
   - backport from focal
     - drop to debhelper 9
 - seabios
   - backport from focal
     - drop to debhelper 9
   - satisfies qemu-system-x86 dependencies for nova-compute install
 - ipxe-qemu-256k-compat
   - focal build copied to xenial
     - does not build with xenial toolchain
   - satisfies qemu-system-x86 dependencies for nova-compute install
- nova
  - patch to fix nova-compute behaviour with qem>=2.10
  - patches to fix the testsuite as a result of ^
  - patches to stop existing x509 tests failing on slow buildds

Adding this PPA to your system

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:canonical-sysadmins/scalingstack-power9 to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-sysadmins/scalingstack-power9
sudo apt update
        
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deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/canonical-sysadmins/scalingstack-power9/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main 
deb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/canonical-sysadmins/scalingstack-power9/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main 
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ipxe-qemu-256k-compat 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-0ubuntu4 Paul Collins ()
ipxe-qemu-256k-compat 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-0ubuntu4 Paul Collins ()
libvirt 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.32~scalingstack.2 Paul Collins ()
nova 2:13.1.4-0ubuntu4.6~scalingstack.3 Gareth Woolridge ()
qemu 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.19~scalingstack.9 Gareth Woolridge ()
seabios 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.2~scalingstack.1 Paul Collins ()
slof 20191209+dfsg-2~scalingstack.2 Paul Collins ()
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Latest updates

  • nova 128 weeks ago
    Successfully built
  • qemu 128 weeks ago
    Successfully built
  • ipxe-qemu-256k-compat 133 weeks ago
    Successfully built
  • libvirt 133 weeks ago
    Successfully built
  • slof 133 weeks ago
    Successfully built