[libvirt PATCH] util: canonicalize 'arm64' arch to 'aarch64'

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Tue Nov 30 10:53:45 UTC 2021


macOS on Apple silicon reports 'arm64' as the architecture from uname,
which we need to canonicalize to VIR_ARCH_AARCH64 / 'aarch64'.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
---

NB, I suggest we push this during freeze as it is a trivial bugfix

src/util/virarch.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/util/virarch.c b/src/util/virarch.c
index f088b6b676..2134dd6a9d 100644
--- a/src/util/virarch.c
+++ b/src/util/virarch.c
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ virArch virArchFromHost(void)
         arch = VIR_ARCH_I686;
     } else if (STREQ(ut.machine, "amd64")) {
         arch = VIR_ARCH_X86_64;
+    } else if (STREQ(ut.machine, "arm64")) {
+        arch = VIR_ARCH_AARCH64;
     } else {
         /* Otherwise assume the canonical name */
         if ((arch = virArchFromString(ut.machine)) == VIR_ARCH_NONE) {
-- 
2.33.1




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