[Maas-devel] 3rd Party Drivers

[Jeffrey Lane]

Hello,

Can someone please point to documentation that explains, in at least
minor detail, the steps necessary to include and use 3rd party drivers
with MAAS?

There's a checkbox in the UI that enables 3rd Party drivers, but I can
find nothing in the docs on maas.ubuntu.com that actually explains how
to use this.  There have been at least two instances now where a
customer using MAAS in their test environment for certification has
asked "Hey, what's this do and how to I use it?" and I have nothing to
point them to.

I've looked at the docs for Trunk and 1.7 at maas.ubuntu.com and even
a search for either "3rd" or "3rd party" which is how it's called in
the UI returns nothing.

So can someone please clue us in on how to actually enable and use
those third party drivers?  The only example I know of so far was
HPVSA, but I expect others to come (Cisco has asked for some of their
network drivers, for example).

Cheers
Jeff



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