[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Still TODO for 4.2?
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 04:29:22PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > What are the outstanding things to do before we think we can start on > the 4.2 -rc's? Does anyone have a timetable in mind? > > hypervisor: > > * ??? - Keir, Tim, Jan? > > tools: > > * libxl stable API -- we would like 4.2 to define a stable API > which downstream's can start to rely on not changing. Aspects of > this are: > * event handling (IanJ working on this) > * drop libxl_device_model_info (move bits to build_info or > elsewhere as appropriate) (IanC working on this, patches > shortly) > * add libxl_defbool and generally try and arrange that > memset(foo,0,...) requests the defaults (IanC working on > this, patches shortly) > * The topologyinfo datastructure should be a list of > tuples, not a tuple of lists. (nobody currently looking > at this, not 100% sure this makes sense, could possibly > defer and change after 4.2 in a compatible way) > * Block script support -- can be done post 4.2? > * Hotplug script stuff -- internal to libxl (I think, therefore I > didn't put this under stable API above) but still good to have > for 4.2? Roger Pau Monet was looking at this but its looking > like a big can-o-worms... > * Integrate qemu+seabios upstream into the build (Stefano has > posted patches, I guess they need refreshing and reposting). No > change in default qemu for 4.2. > * More formally deprecate xm/xend. Manpage patches already in > tree. Needs release noting and communication around -rc1 to > remind people to test xl. > > Has anybody got anything else? I'm sure I've missed stuff. Are there any > must haves e.g. in the paging/sharing spaces? > - What's the status of Nested Hardware Virtualization? I remember some email saying Intel vmx-on-vmx has some performance issues, and amd svm-on-svm works better.. - Also there's a bunch of VGA passthru related patches, that I once volunteered to collect/rebase/cleanup/repost myself, but I still haven't had time for that :( -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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