Re: Xen release announcement and Virtio/Fusa

[Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> On 24 Nov 2021, at 22:08, Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2021, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
>> Hi Artem/Stefano
>>
>> Anything we could say on work being done around Virtio and Xen since last 
>> Xen release that would be nice to add to Xen release announcement ?
>>
>> For reference here is what was said for previous Xen release:
>> https://xenproject.org/2021/04/08/xen-project-hypervisor-4-15/
>>
>> For Fusa I would suggest to say the following:
>>
>> Functional Safety Update
>> The working group has been analysing all MISRA rules and started to define a 
>> list of possible rules followed or to be followed by Xen in the future.
>> Several static code analysers have also been evaluated, both commercial and 
>> open source, to do a first analysis of the non MISRA compliances in Xen and 
>> also find a way for developers to check theirs patches in the future before 
>> upstreaming.
>> This works has been done in close collaboration with the Zephyr project and 
>> the MISRA consortium.
>>
>> @Stefano/Artem: please comment/complete/fix
>
> Thanks Bertrand for taking a stab at it.

You are welcome
>
> In collaboration with the Zephyr project and the MISRA consortium, the
> Xen FuSa Special Interest Group analyzed MISRA C rules in depth and
> defined a subset of rules that apply to Xen and will be tackled with
> the community. The SIG evaluated several static code analyzers to scan
> the Xen code base for MISRA C violations. The team enhanced the Xen
> build system with the ability to run open source MISRA C checkers as
> part of the Xen build, so that for future releases Xen contributors will
> be able to easily improve the quality of their patches.

Far better but we did not upstream my patch to add cppcheck. Is it ok to say it 
like that ?

Cheers
Bertrand

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