Re: Xen 4.18 release: Reminder about code freeze

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2023, Henry Wang wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> > On Sep 26, 2023, at 16:01, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On 26.09.2023 09:58, Henry Wang wrote:
> >>> On Sep 26, 2023, at 15:46, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> 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 ...
> >> 
> >> I think you are referring to [1]
> > 
> > Yes, that's the one.
> > 
> >> (and a proper CHANGELOG), I added this to my list
> >> if all people involved is fine with this patch from Stefano,
> > 
> > Iirc there were comments on the wording already, but no update to the patch.
> 
> As this is simply a doc change, I think we still have time for the author 
> (Stefano) to respin
> the patch. I am replying with his email address set to “To:” to catch his 
> attention. Also,
> I think if Stefano is happy, probably any x86 maintainer or probably myself 
> can pick
> this patch up as the follow up.

It's out:
https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=169577443417860