Drop KVM assignment

[libvirt] [PATCH 12/12] news: Document KVM assignment removal

Posted by Michal Privoznik 6 years, 5 months ago

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
---
 docs/news.xml | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index d63fca3b48..6137ebd943 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -51,6 +51,19 @@
         </description>
       </change>
     </section>
+    <section title="Removed features">
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          Remove KVM assignment support
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          The KVM style of PCI device assignment was removed from
+          kernel in kernel 4.12.0 after being deprecated since 4.2.0.
+          Libvirt defaults to VFIO for a long time. Remove support for
+          KVM device assignment then.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+    </section>
     <section title="Improvements">
     </section>
     <section title="Bug fixes">
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Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 12/12] news: Document KVM assignment removal

Posted by Daniel Henrique Barboza 6 years, 5 months ago


On 8/20/19 11:30 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>


>   docs/news.xml | 13 +++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
> index d63fca3b48..6137ebd943 100644
> --- a/docs/news.xml
> +++ b/docs/news.xml
> @@ -51,6 +51,19 @@
>           </description>
>         </change>
>       </section>
> +    <section title="Removed features">
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          Remove KVM assignment support
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          The KVM style of PCI device assignment was removed from
> +          kernel in kernel 4.12.0 after being deprecated since 4.2.0.
> +          Libvirt defaults to VFIO for a long time. Remove support for
> +          KVM device assignment then.
> +        </description>
> +      </change>
> +    </section>
>       <section title="Improvements">
>       </section>
>       <section title="Bug fixes">

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Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 12/12] news: Document KVM assignment removal

Posted by Ján Tomko 6 years, 5 months ago

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:30:32PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
>---
> docs/news.xml | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
>index d63fca3b48..6137ebd943 100644
>--- a/docs/news.xml
>+++ b/docs/news.xml
>@@ -51,6 +51,19 @@
>         </description>
>       </change>
>     </section>
>+    <section title="Removed features">
>+      <change>
>+        <summary>
>+          Remove KVM assignment support
>+        </summary>
>+        <description>
>+          The KVM style of PCI device assignment was removed from
>+          kernel in kernel 4.12.0 after being deprecated since 4.2.0.

s/kernel in kernel/the kernel in version/

>+          Libvirt defaults to VFIO for a long time. Remove support for
>+          KVM device assignment then.

s/then/from libvirt too/

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>

Jano
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