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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
