Re: [Publicity] Xen 4.4 features for press release

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/16/2013 01:57 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> At the very least we should mention:
> 
> * significant stability improvements across the board
> * ARM/multiboot booting protocol design and implementation in Xen and
>   U-boot

This part is wrong. The implementation in U-boot was discarded or at
least never upstreamed.

> * PSCI support in Xen
> 
> 
>> Some things which spring to mind:
>>       * We now generate guest device trees automatically, instead of
>>         requiring the user to supply one.
>>       * Our host DTB handling is much improved. It is not generally
>>         necessary to have the DTB for Xen any more
> 
> On this topic, we should have a blog post on stable ABI (and block ABI
> breakage) as soon as Konrad sends the pull request on block ABI change
> in Linux.

Konrad already pulled the block ABI patch a couple of weeks ago.

-- 
Julien Grall

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