Re: Xen release announcement and Virtio/Fusa

[Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Artem,

> On 30 Nov 2021, at 09:35, Artem Mygaiev <Artem_Mygaiev@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Roger
> Yes, we would like to provide a quote for 4.16, I am checking with Alex how 
> to quickly approve it with our Markeiting, will get back to you later today.
>
> -- Artem
>
> P.S. Bertrand, do you want to add something about PCI on Arm?

At this stage there is not much we can say apart from this is a work in 
Progress.

Anyway I will be glad if you could say something on that subject (writing and 
validating something on my side for this kind of publication will take to 
long), I can review it :-)

Cheers
Bertrand

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: вторник, 30 ноября 2021 г. 10:31
> To: Artem Mygaiev <Artem_Mygaiev@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@xxxxxxx>; Stefano Stabellini 
> <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>; publicity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Ian Jackson 
> <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Xen release announcement and Virtio/Fusa
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 09:08:21PM +0000, Artem Mygaiev wrote:
>> Hi Roger, Bertrand
>>
>> Please see below (Virtio and Zephyr)
>>
>> *VirtIO*
>> Xen community continued to work on development of VirtIO support for Arm 
>> processors introducing "extended memory regions" mechanism. The extended 
>> memory region (unpopulated memory range) is a region of guest physical 
>> address space which is unused and could be safely used to create external 
>> mappings instead of ballooning out real RAM pages. VirtIO backends can use 
>> this mechanism to pre-map some guest memory in advance or to cache mappings 
>> in order to improve transport performance. Some other work has been done for 
>> the Xen toolstack to handle VirtIO MMIO devices in general and VirtIO block 
>> devices particularly.
>>
>> *Zephyr RTOS*
>> As a result of collaboration between Zephyr project and Xen project of Linux 
>> foundation, starting version 2.7.0, Zephyr RTOS supports some basic features 
>> like PV Console allowing it to run on Xen. With support of Xen Enlighten 
>> page and XenBus on review, and some other features in development like grant 
>> tables, XenBus and starting Zephyr as Domain-0, Xen is getting closer to a 
>> full implementation of the RTOS-based “thin dom0” targeting Embedded and 
>> Safety use cases.
>>
>> I am sorry for possible language issues - English is not my native tongue. 
>> Will appreciate if someone proofread this.
>
> Thanks! I'm adding those to the release blog post.
>
> Would you also like to provide a Community Quote for the 4.16
> release, like you did for the 4.15 one [0]?
>
> Thanks, Roger.
>
> [0] 
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://xenproject.org/2021/04/08/xen-project-hypervisor-4-15/__;!!GF_29dbcQIUBPA!hNIUKJHO1oAY0yZtpNLs4nbi4nNit-bKjF760t0GE2oxIR2hddQYnHMCtGHK9MWIUw$
>  [xenproject[.]org]

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