[PATCH v3 5/5] NEWS: add new acpi pci hotplug options in the release note for next release

Ani Sinha ani at anisinha.ca
Sun Sep 12 03:26:31 UTC 2021


Added the following new libvirt conf options to the release note to indicate
their availability with the next release:

<pm>
  <acpi-hotplug-bridge enabled='no'/>
  <acpi-root-hotplug enabled='yes'/>
</pm>

The details of these two options are available in the following commit logs:

e27d02694497a1 ("qemu: command: add support for qemu options that enables/disables acpi hotplug")
c15daf3cd03efc ("conf: introduce acpi-hotplug-bridge and acpi-root-hotplug pm options")
0a09d090065735 ("qemu: capablities: detect presence of acpi-root-pci-hotplug for i440fx machines")
c898e0d5bdf144 ("qemu: capablities: detect presence of acpi-pci-hotplug-with-bridge-support")

Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani at anisinha.ca>
---
 NEWS.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 4521499db7..3f7f2c4d4d 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ v7.8.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **New features**
 
+  * Add support for two new global ACPI BIOS options controlling PCI hotplug
+
+    Two new ``<pm>`` options have been added to allow users control BIOS ACPI
+    based PCI hotplug for x86 guests using qemu driver.
+
+    ``acpi-hotplug-bridge`` enables or disables ACPI based hotplug for cold plugged
+    bridges. ``acpi-root-hotplug`` enables or disables ACPI based hotplug for pci
+    root bus.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
 * **Bug fixes**
-- 
2.25.1




More information about the libvir-list mailing list