Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.7 Headline Features (for PR)

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars,

On 22/04/16 15:19, Lars Kurth wrote:
> > On 22 Apr 2016, at 14:39, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 02:26:39PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > given that we have we are getting close to RC's, I would like to start to spec 
> > > out the headline Features for the press release. The big items I am aware of 
> > > are COLO. I am a little confused about xSplice.
> > >
> > > Maybe we can use this thread to start collating a short-list.
> Typically we have 3-5 Headline Features in a press release.
>
> > xSplice is definitively the first one on my list. I'm actually holding
> > off cutting RC1 waiting for it to be merged.
> This would definitely be the #1 Headline feature then. It's the single most 
> important thing we have done in a while and it has the potential to positive
>
> > COLO is also a candidate, but there are many components that are not yet
> > upstream. Those are not necessarily part of xen.
> Alright, we may need to be careful as to not raise wrong expectations, if there 
> are missing pieces say in QEMU. On the other hand, having this in place before 
> KVM is also nice.
>
> > ACPI support on ARM is also a possible candidate.
Note that this feature is considered as a tech preview and not enabled 
by default in Xen (you need to add XEN_CONFIG_EXPERT=y on the command line).
Other headline features:
  * Wallclock support
  * Support of PSCI 1.0 for the host
  * Drop the support for HIP04 platform

> Agreed. Also easy to explain.
Regards,

--
Julien Grall

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