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Re: Xen 4.18 release: Reminder about code freeze

Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:46:58 +0200

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Cc: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, "sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx" <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>, Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>, "jgross@xxxxxxxx" <jgross@xxxxxxxx>, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>, Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>, "community.manager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <community.manager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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On 25.09.2023 09:24, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 25.09.2023 03:25, Henry Wang wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> This is the reminder that we are currently in code freeze. The hard code >> freeze date will be in two weeks, i.e. Fri Oct 6, 2023. >> >> The planned date for 4.18 rc1 is this Friday, i.e. Sep 29, 2023. >> >> Also, below is the (updated) critical items on my list for 4.18 release: >> 1. [PATCH 0/7] tools: More Python 3 fixes (part 1 of N) >> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/-/issues/114 >> >> 2. tools: Switch to non-truncating XENVER_* ops >> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20230117135336.11662-1-andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx/ >> >> 3. dom0less vs xenstored setup race Was: xen | Failed pipeline for staging | >> 6a47ba2f >> https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312468808977 >> https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312687610283 >> >> 4. [PATCH v2 0/8] Fixes to debugging facilities >> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/21cc28b9-91d1-1e6e-23ac-00c44f3ec08e@xxxxxxxxx/ > > May I ask that at least "x86: support data operand independent timing mode" > also be put on this list? There were other x86 items we wanted in 4.18, but > I think they have been put on hold now for too long to still be reasonable > to expect to make it. On the x86 maintainers meeting yesterday two more feature series (i.e. leaving aside big fixes) were identified as candidates to also add to the tracking list: - runstate/time area registration by (guest) physical address - annotate entry points with type and size Furthermore may I ask that you keep an eye on the physical CPU hotplug situation? It continues to be documented as fully supported, and as long as that's the case 47342d8f490c (" x86/ACPI: Ignore entries with invalid APIC IDs when parsing MADT") would imo need reverting. While I had indicated that I would do the revert, a patch to SUPPORT.md was meanwhile proposed (which would of course further need accompanying by a CHANGELOG.md entry), but didn't really make progress since then. Yet I also didn't want to "needlessly" do the revert ... Jan

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