The URL for the ixgbevf driver is currently returning a 404. Updating
to the new mirror URL gets EC2 builds with enhanced networking support
working again.
enhanced network instances Stretch upwards.
* For GCC >=6 in Debian PIE (Position Independent Executable) has being activated
it is causing enhanced network driver for AWS images to fail at
compilation time due to incompatibility with PIE options for the kernel
* To learn what PIE is read docs at
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html#Code-Gen-Options
Up until now I didn't see the point of using spaces for indentation.
However, the previous commit (a18bec3) was quite eye opening.
Given that python is an indentation aware language, the amount of
mistakes that went unnoticed because tabs and spaces were used
at the same time (tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment)
were unacceptable.
E101,W191 have been re-enable in the tox flake8 checker and
the documentation has been modified accordingly.
The following files have been left as-is:
* bootstrapvz/common/assets/extlinux/extlinux.conf
* bootstrapvz/common/assets/init.d/expand-root
* bootstrapvz/common/assets/init.d/generate-ssh-hostkeys
* bootstrapvz/common/assets/init.d/squeeze/generate-ssh-hostkeys
* bootstrapvz/plugins/docker_daemon/assets/init.d/docker
* bootstrapvz/providers/ec2/assets/bin/growpart
* bootstrapvz/providers/ec2/assets/grub.d/40_custom
* bootstrapvz/providers/ec2/assets/init.d/ec2-get-credentials
* bootstrapvz/providers/ec2/assets/init.d/ec2-run-user-data
* docs/_static/taskoverview.coffee
* docs/_static/taskoverview.less
* tests/unit/subprocess.sh
This change adds a provider option, enhanced_networking,
which installs the Intel virtual networking driver for
SR-IOV using DKMS. It also modifies the EC2 AMI registration
to include support for SR-IOV.
