Re: [Publicity] Xen now available in CentOS 7 for ARM64 servers

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2015, Lars Kurth wrote:
> > On 1 Oct 2015, at 12:13, Stefano Stabellini 
> > <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Wei Liu wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 02:50:45PM -0400, Russ Pavlicek wrote:
> >>> I'd say sooner rather than later.  We've got a blog from Wei about 4.6
> >>> features coming.  I'd like to do one more push for the San Antonio
> >>> event next week.  And then we'll have the release announcement.
> >>> Things are stacking up quickly -- and that's assuming that we have
> >>> nothing else to write about for the next 10 days.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> FWIW I think the post about 4.6 will be published around October 13, so
> >> this one can probably go live next week if there is nothing else in the
> >> pipeline.
> > 
> > I spoke with Lars about it too and scheduled the publication for Monday
> > morning UK time.
> 
> The rationale is due to the 4.6 announcement: "Since the 4.6 release is going 
> out officially on 10/9, Sarah suggested that we should push out the press 
> release time (including blog post, etc.) to the following Tuesday, October 
> 13th. This gives us extra cushion for approving a quote from members, and we 
> are pushing it out earlier in the week rather than later." ... Earlier in the 
> week is better, as we will reach more people.
> 
> Otherwise the post looks great: some minor comments/questions
>
> > You can easily extend the root partition and filesystem to fill your entire 
> > disk.
> I am a little baffled about this sentence: it may be better to focus on the 
> benefits of "extending" rather than "filling the disk", which sounds a little 
> odd

I changed it to "You can easily extend the root partition and filesystem
to match the size of your disk".


> > If you are using AppliedMicro X-Gene, you need to add a Xen command line 
> > option to specify which serial 
> serial port
> >to use. This is due to the firmware missing one piece of information.
> X-Gene firmware
> 
> As an aside: does this need to be in the Xen 4.6 release notes or is this 
> issue unrelated to 4.6?

It is unrelated


> > Xen 4.6 will be released early this month and you can count on us updating 
> > the Xen rpm in CentOS 7 shortly after. 
> how about replacing "early this month" with "shortly" or "in a few days"

I replaced it with "shortly".


> Excellent work
 
Thanks!

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