[PATCH 1/1] NEWS.rst: update with NVDIMM auto-alignment removal for pSeries

[Ján Tomko]

On a Monday in 2020, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
>Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413 at gmail.com>
>---
> NEWS.rst | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
>index d92714c29b..7ae4aa9340 100644
>--- a/NEWS.rst
>+++ b/NEWS.rst
>@@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ v6.7.0 (unreleased)
>     Sparse streams (e.g. ``virsh vol-download --sparse`` or ``virsh vol-upload
>     --sparse``) now handle if one of the stream ends is a block device.
>
>+  * Remove NVDIMM auto-alignment for pSeries Guests
>+
>+    This feature was introduced in libvirt v6.2.0 as part of the overall
>+    NVDIMM support for pSeries guests. The idea was to relieve the user
>+    from knowing ppc64 alignment details, but the end result is that we
>+    ended up with inconsistencies between domain XML and actual NVDIMM
>+    size the guest is using. To promote consistency between domain XML
>+    and the guest, unaligned NVDIMM sizes for pSeries guests will now be
>+    forbid and no size auto-alignment will be made. Instead, libvirt will

s/forbid/forbidden/

>+    suggest an aligned round up size for the user.
>+
> * **Bug fixes**
>
>   * virdevmapper: Deal with kernels without DM support

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>

Jano
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