[libvirt PATCH] news: Mention Apple Silicon support

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Mon Feb 15 10:27:34 UTC 2021


On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 11:22:18AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-02-15 at 11:10 +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:59:47 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > After the recent fixes, it's now confirmed to work.
> > > 
> > > https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/121
> > 
> > Should it be closed then?
> 
> I will close it as soon as this is pushed :)
> 
> > > +* **Portability**
> > > +
> > > +  * Implement Apple Silicon support
> > 
> > Just semantics, wasn't the problem just in the test suite? In which case
> > I'd consider it more of a fix than implementation.
> 
> Most of the changes indeed happened in the test suite, but some
> tweaks to the aarch64 CPU driver were necessary as well,
> specifically:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/commit/82ffb81c9cafbcdf7b1f56f9644883fe8398faa5
>   https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/commit/03af15c0242fdb485fc639f24b9acef9ac21599d
>   https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/commit/f834c341fbec94ead3671931c58db9c0488b76db
> 
> As for whether this should be considered a bug fix, of course the
> line between the various release notes sections is not entirely well
> defined and there's always some overlap / leeway...
> 
> I would consider this a bug fix if we had Apple Silicon support in
> the past and broke it, but since the hardware literally didn't exist
> until a few months ago, I think it qualifies as a new feature - it
> just so happens to be one where we could piggy-back on existing
> features almost completely ;)

Nitpick, for our supported platforms we generally aim to have CI coverage
and that isn't the case for Apple Silicon. So it may or may not work when
the release comes - we could well break it between now and release day.

Regards,
Daniel
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