[PATCH] rpm: re-enable ppc64 on RHEL-8

Neal Gompa ngompa13 at gmail.com
Sat May 15 03:56:21 UTC 2021


On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 8:24 AM Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:57:24PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > Historically PowerPC 64 was always supported with qemu-kvm in RHEL.
> >
> > In future RHEL-9 it is being discontinued and this was addressed
> > in
> >
> >   commit 03cc3c9064322ac4028a2213105cd230fe28c013
> >   Author: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com>
> >   Date:   Wed Apr 21 14:55:03 2021 +0200
> >
> >     spec: Do not build qemu driver for Power on RHEL-9
> >
> > when the specfile was cleaned up to remove RHEL-7 support:
> >
> >   commit 0f601d2f868f2017cdd16e0a7ca90a59e7d5e120
> >   Author: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>
> >   Date:   Wed May 5 19:30:46 2021 +0200
> >
> >     spec: Bump min_fedora and min_rhel
> >
> > it also removed the logic that applied to RHEL-8 wrt arch list
> > and lost PowerPC 64 support on 8. This reverts that part of the
> > change but with the condition reversed to prioritize the future
> > state.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  libvirt.spec.in | 6 +++++-
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> My bad! Thanks for catching and fixing this :)
>
> Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>
>

Mechanically, this change is fine, so...

Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com>

But, I'm kind of surprised that this is going away, since IBM has put
special attention on improving PowerKVM support specifically for RHEL,
so this seems really weird...

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