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Re: [PATCH 2/3] CHANGELOG: Add missing entries for work during the 4.17 release





On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 11:23 AM Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Henry

[sorry for the possible format issues]

Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx>
---
 CHANGELOG.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index adbbb216fa..fa8cc476b3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,16 +4,41 @@ Notable changes to Xen will be documented in this file.

 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)

-## [unstable UNRELEASED](https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=staging) - TBD
+## [4.17.0](https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=staging) - 2022-11-??

 ### Changed
  - On x86 "vga=current" can now be used together with GrUB2's gfxpayload setting. Note that
    this requires use of "multiboot2" (and "module2") as the GrUB commands loading Xen.
+ - The "gnttab" option now has a new command line sub-option for disabling the
+   GNTTABOP_transfer functionality.
+ - The x86 MCE command line option info is now updated.

 ### Added / support upgraded
+ - Out-of-tree builds for the hypervisor now supported.
+ - The project has officially adopted 4 directives and 24 rules of MISRA-C,
+   added MISRA-C checker build integration, and defined how to document
+   deviations.
  - IOMMU superpage support on x86, affecting PV guests as well as HVM/PVH ones
    when they don't share page tables with the CPU (HAP / EPT / NPT).
- - Support VIRT_SSBD feature for HVM guests on AMD.
+ - Support VIRT_SSBD feature for HVM guests on AMD and MSR_SPEC_CTRL feature for
+   SVM guests.
+ - Improved TSC, CPU frequency calibration and APIC on x86.
+ - Improved support for CET Indirect Branch Tracking on x86.
+ - Improved mwait-idle support for SPR and ADL on x86.
+ - Extend security support for hosts to 12 TiB of memory on x86.
+ - Add command line option to set cpuid parameters for dom0 at boot time on x86.
+ - Improved static configuration options on Arm.
+ - cpupools can be specified at boot using device tree on Arm.
+ - It is possible to use PV drivers with dom0less guests, allowing statically
+   booted dom0less guests with PV devices.
+ - On Arm, p2m structures are now allocated out of a pool of memory set aside at
+   domain creation.
+ - Improved mitigations against Spectre-BHB on Arm.
+ - Add support for VirtIO toolstack on Arm.
 
I would clarify that only virtio-mmio is supported on Arm.
 
+ - Allow setting the number of CPUs to activate at runtime from command line
+   option on Arm.
+ - Improved toolstack build system.
+ - Add Xue - console over USB 3 Debug Capability.

I would probably also add the following:

- Add Renesas R-Car Gen4 IPMMU-VMSA support (Arm)
- grant-table support on Arm was improved and hardened by implementing “simplified M2P-like
approach for the xenheap pages”

 

 ### Removed / support downgraded
  - dropped support for the (x86-only) "vesa-mtrr" and "vesa-remap" command line options
--
2.25.1




--
Regards,

Oleksandr Tyshchenko

 


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