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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12 Development Update


  • To: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 12:07:13 +0100
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  • Delivery-date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:07:19 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>
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On 09/11/2018 11:56, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 11/9/18 10:16 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
>> would like to see in 4.12 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 about every 8 
>> months.
>> The upcoming 4.12 timeline are as followed:
>>
>> * Last posting date: December 14th, 2018
>>   Last posting date for patches touching ARM code: December 1st, 2018
>> * Hard code freeze: January 11th, 2019
>>   Hard code freeze for patches touching ARM code: December 21st, 2018
>> * RC1: TBD
>> * Release: March 7th, 2019
>>
>> Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
>> that wish to go into 4.12 must be posted no later than the last posting
>> date. All patches posted after that date will be automatically queued
>> into next release.
> 
> Sorry, do you mean "...must be posted no later than the hard code freeze"?
> 
> Previously "Last posting date" has meant that as long as v1 was posted
> before that date, vN can be checked in any time before the hard code
> freeze.  Just checking to see that that's still the  meaning.

That's the wording used for the last couple releases.

What about:

"All patches that wish to go into 4.12 must be posted initially no later
 than the last posting date and finally no later than the hard code
 freeze."

> 
>> = Projects =
>>
>> == Hypervisor == 
>>
>> *  Per-cpu tasklet
>>   -  XEN-28
>>   -  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
>>
>> *  Improvements to domain creation (v2)
>>   -  Andrew Cooper
>>
>> *  Argo (inter-VM communication)
>>   -  Christopher Clark
>>
>> === x86 === 
>>
>> *  hypervisor x86 instruction emulator additions (v2)
>>   -  Jan Beulich
>>
>> *  PV-IOMMU (v6)
>>   -  Paul Durrant
>>
>> *  HVM guest CPU topology support (RFC)
>>   -  Chao Gao
>>
>> *  Intel Processor Trace virtualization enabling (v1)
>>   -  Luwei Kang
>>
>> *  Linux stub domains (RFC v2)
>>   -  Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
>>
>> *  dom0less (boot multiple domains from device tree) (v4)
>>   -  Stefano Stabellini
> 
> You can add qemu-depriv to this list.  There's a reasonable chance that
> it will be good enough for a "tech-preview" by Dec 14th.

Okay.


Juergen

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