Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.5 development update (July update)

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:
> (trimming CC to just those related to things I've commented on)
> 
> On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 20:28 -0400, konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > fair - still working on it, patches are prototypes or RFC
> 
> You've used this (correctly per your definition here) on various things
> which it seems to me are very unlikely to make it for 4.5, i.e. things
> which are really early prototypes etc, which made me pause every time I
> ready it and have to think back to the definition.
> 
> I guess what I'm saying is that "fair" is not a good label for this
> state, it implies that while the thing is a WIP it is still likely to
> make it for 4.5.
> 
> I think you need a lower ranked WIP label for things which are in that
> state of prototype/RFC but not likely to make 4.5. "wip" or "inprogress"
> perhaps.
> 
> > = Open =
> > 
> > == ARM == 
> [...]
> 
> > *  ARM VM save/restore/live migration (ok)
> >   -  Junghyun Yoo
> 
> I've not heard from Junghyun since the initial reposting, not sure what
> the prognosis is but given lack of support for SMP and some of the other
> issues I'm more incline to suggest fair rather than OK. Jinghyun, do you
> have any thoughts?
> 
> It's possible that the "save/restore/dead-migration" bit is "ok", it's
> the live migration bits where the issues mostly remain iffy.
> 
> Also this is dependent on the migration v2 by Andrew et al.
> 
> > *  ARM: Use super pages in p2m (ok)
> >    v5 posted
> >   -  Ian Campbell
> 
> Committed.
> 
> > == QEMU == 
> > 
> > *  Rebase of QEMU 2.0 and SeaBIOS (fair)
> >   -  Ian Jackson
> 
> What is this? Neither of them sound like Ian J things. Stefano maintains
> Qemu and I take care of SeaBIOS.

Yeah, it should be me for QEMU and it is done.


> >From the SeaBIOS side we are currently using the latest upstream.
> 
> IIRC Stefano has merged the version of qemu which he intends 4.5 to ship
> with, but he should confirm...

Yes, I have already merged QEMU 2.0.0 and I am not planning to merge
again a new QEMU upstream release before 4.5.

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