[PATCH] rpm: Enable Xen support on AArch64

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Mon Oct 5 13:01:26 UTC 2020


On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 12:33:23PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On a Sunday in 2020, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > Starting with Linux 5.9, Xen Dom0 works on commonly available
> > AArch64 devices, such as the Raspberry Pi 4.
> > 
> 
> My Fedora 32 does not even have 5.9 yet, does it make sense to allow it
> regardless of the version?

New kernels get pushed to all Fedora stable releases, so I'd expect it
to appear in F32 in time.

The "xen" RPM in Fedora as aarch64 enabled in F32 already, so libxl
is available for libvirt to build against.

> 
> Jano
> 
> > Reference: https://xenproject.org/2020/09/29/xen-on-raspberry-pi-4-adventures/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > libvirt.spec.in | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
> > index aa2bc84be9..470782b23e 100644
> > --- a/libvirt.spec.in
> > +++ b/libvirt.spec.in
> > @@ -97,8 +97,8 @@
> > 
> > # Finally set the OS / architecture specific special cases
> > 
> > -# Xen is available only on i386 x86_64 ia64
> > -%ifnarch %{ix86} x86_64 ia64
> > +# Xen is available only on i386 x86_64 ia64 aarch64
> > +%ifnarch %{ix86} x86_64 ia64 aarch64
> >     %define with_libxl 0
> > %endif
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.26.2
> > 



Regards,
Daniel
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