[libvirt PATCH v7 5/5] news: Add PCI VPD parser & capability notes

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Shcherbakov <dmitrii.shcherbakov(a)canonical.com&gt; --- NEWS.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index f3b9e5f0cb..e7b7dfb4f0 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -40,6 +40,28 @@ v7.9.0 (unreleased) domain definition when the guest was first started).This setting is only applicable for x86 guests using qemu driver. + * virpcivpd: Add a PCI VPD parser + + A parser for the standard PCI/PCIe VPD ("I.3. VPD Definitions" in PCI 2.2+ + and an equivalent definition in "6.28.1 VPD Format" PCIe 4.0) was added + along with relevant types to represent PCI VPD in memory. This + functionality got added for Linux only at this point (kernels above + v2.6.26 have support for exposing VPD via sysfs). + + * virpci: Add PCI VPD-related helper functions to virpci + + In order to utilize the PCI VPD parser, a couple of helper functions got + introduced to check for the presence of a VPD file in the sysfs tree and + to invoke the PCI VPD parser to get a list of resources representing PCI + VPD contents in memory. + + * nodedev: Add PCI VPD capability support + + Support for serializing and deserializing PCI VPD data structures is added + following the addition of the PCI VPD parser. A new PCI device capability + called "vpd" is introduced holding string resources and keyword resources + found in PCI VPD. + * **Improvements** * Use of JSON syntax with ``-device`` with upcoming QEMU-6.2 -- 2.32.0