Re: [Xen-devel] preparations for 4.9.2 and 4.7.5

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 06.03.18 at 20:24, <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> these stable releases should go out before the end of the month.
> >> Please point out backport candidates you find missing from the
> >> respective staging branches, but which you consider relevant.
> >> Please note that 4.7.5 is expected to be the last xenproject.org
> >> managed release from its branch.
> > 
> > I am waiting for master to pass Julien's PSCI 1.1 series, then I intend
> > to backport it to all stable trees (commits from
> > f30b93b42b7137654a69676a61620f763c4ad3b3 to
> > cd8b749282475caef095ea2f339a01d1ff9714ae).
> > 
> > Backports to older trees might be difficult.
> > 
> > Given your stable release plan, do you suggest I should start the
> > backports now, even if master has not passed yet, or wait?
> 
> There have been a lot of minor issues lately keeping pushes from
> happening on master, so if the commits above have not been
> pushed just because of such a glitch, I'd be fine with them being
> backported right away. If, however, there's any doubt, then I'd
> prefer if you waited. But in the end on the ARM side you know
> better than me what's best.
 
Master hasn't passed yet, so no backports of the ARM64 Spectre
mitigation for the moment.

In the meantime, I tagged the QEMU trees.

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