Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.8 Development Update

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:06:57AM -0600, Tamas K Lengyel wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items 
> > you
> > woulk like to see in 4.8 so that people have an idea what is going on and
> > prioritise accordingly.
> >
> > You're welcome to provide description and use cases of the feature you're
> > working on.
> >
> > = Timeline =
> >
> > We now adopt a fixed cut-off date scheme. We will release twice a
> > year. The upcoming 4.8 timeline are as followed:
> >
> > * Last posting date: September 16, 2016
> > * Hard code freeze: September 30, 2016
> > * RC1: TBD
> > * Release: December 2, 2016
> >
> > Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> > that wish to go into 4.8 must be posted no later than the last posting
> > date. All patches posted after that date will be automatically queued
> > into next release.
> >
> > RCs will be arranged immediately after freeze.
> >
> > = Projects =
> 
> [...]
> 
> > === ARM ===
> 
> I'm mentoring Sergej Proskurin who is developing altp2m for ARM as
> part of a Google Summer of Code project. Current status is that first
> version of the series has been posted, working on reviews, second
> version should be sent shortly. We are hopeful to be able to meet the
> merge window with this for 4.8.
> 

Right. I missed that.

Looking forward to the patches!

Wei.

> Tamas

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