qemu: Fix HPET timer validation and remove always-present architecture dependent capabilities

[PATCH 02/15] NEWS: Mention bug in validation of HPET timer

Posted by Peter Krempa 1 year, 6 months ago

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 2ccbf0a62a..a5788417f3 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ v9.2.0 (unreleased)

 * **Bug fixes**

+  * qemu: Fix validation of the HPET timer
+
+    Due to a logic bug when determining support for the HPET timer libvirt would
+    starting from version 9.0 we'd reject VM configurations explicitly enabling
+    the HPET timer.
+

 v9.1.0 (2023-03-01)
 ===================
-- 
2.39.2

Re: [PATCH 02/15] NEWS: Mention bug in validation of HPET timer

Posted by Ján Tomko 1 year, 6 months ago

On a Monday in 2023, Peter Krempa wrote:
>Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
>---
> NEWS.rst | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
>index 2ccbf0a62a..a5788417f3 100644
>--- a/NEWS.rst
>+++ b/NEWS.rst
>@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ v9.2.0 (unreleased)
>
> * **Bug fixes**
>
>+  * qemu: Fix validation of the HPET timer
>+
>+    Due to a logic bug when determining support for the HPET timer libvirt would
>+    starting from version 9.0 we'd reject VM configurations explicitly enabling
>+    the HPET timer.
>+

-EPARSE

How about:

    Due to a logic bug introduced in libvirt 9.0.0, VM configurations
    explicitly enabling the HPET timer were rejected.

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

Jano