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[Andres Rodriguez <andres.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason,

Can you please make sure this documentation makes it to the maas doc's?

Raphael, CC'd should be able to point you in the right direction.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jason Hobbs <jason.hobbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> There is some documentation for it in the code:
>
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maas-maintainers/maas/trunk/view/head:/src/maasserver/third_party_drivers.py
>
> Jason
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Andres Rodriguez <
> andres.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Jason.hobbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Jason added this support, he will prove more info.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> On Jan 22, 2015 2:02 PM, "Jeffrey Lane" <jeffrey.lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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Andres Rodriguez
Engineering Manager, HWE Team
Canonical USA, Inc.