Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 08:23:50AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 02.03.18 at 15:36, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 07:31:43AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> On 02.03.18 at 15:22, <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > I'd be in favor of merging the 4.8.3pre-shim-comet and
> >> > 4.10.0-shim-comet branches into staging-4.8 and staging-4.10
> >> > respectively (assuming that's suitable).  Are there any other fixes to
> >> > PVH / PVshim hosting that we'd need to backport as well?
> >> 
> >> That depends on how well those branches have been maintained
> >> wrt fixes posted / applied during the last couple of weeks.
> >> 
> > 
> > I can cherry-pick relevant fixes to 4.10-comet and then merge 4.10-comet
> > with 4.10 staging.
> 
> Fine with me.
> 
> > If that's agreed we can discuss on what criteria do patches get picked
> > for backporting.
> 
> Until we've shipped a stable version from those branches (to be honest
> I'm not sure about doing this for 4.8 when we don#t mean to do it for
> 4.9),

We avoided 4.9 at the time due to the pressure of getting something
out fast, I'm not sure if it would be very complicated to pick the
'type=pvh' 4.8 backports and apply them 4.9, I'm fairly sure the code
base is not that different (and at most this is going to involve
dropping patches from the 4.8 branch).

Roger.

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