Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.4 development update: RC0 imminent

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/05/2013 04:34 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:29:08PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM, George Dunlap
> > <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > This information will be mirrored on the Xen 4.4 Roadmap wiki page:
> > >   http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Roadmap/4.4
> > >
> > > We're nearly to the completion of the code freeze, scheduled for
> > > tomorrow.  After the code freeze, only bug fixes and features marked
> > > as "blockers" will be considered.  At the moment, the only feature
> > > considered a blocker is experimental PVH dom0 support.
> > >
> > > In early RCs, most bug fixes will be accepted; but in later RCs, even
> > > bug fixes may be rejected if they risk breaking more important
> > > functionality than they fix.
> > >
> > > I don't think at this point every bug fix needs a blessing from me;
> > > committers, if there are fixes which are obviously low-risk, just go
> > > ahead and check them in.
> > >
> > > I was thinking that for some of our new features, it would be good to
> > > have a blog post describing the feature and how to test it.  This
> > > would both raise awareness of the feature, and hopefully get it more
> > > testing before the release.  We could choose a couple to focus on for
> > > each test day.
> > Features which might be worth highlighting for testing in blogs:
> >
> > * Non-udev scripts for driver domains (non-Linux driver domains)
> >   - Roger Pau Monne
> >
> > * PHV domU (experimental only)
> >
> > * Improved Spice support on libxl
> >   - Fabio Fantoni
> >
> > * Event channel scalability
> >   - David Vrabel
> >
> > * pvgrub2 checked into grub upstream (external)
> >   - Vladmir Servinenko
> >
> > * Guest EFI booting (tianocore)
> >   - Wei Liu
> A bunch of critical patches are neither applied upstream nor in our tree
> (though they are already acked / reviewed by maintainers), so I don't
> think we want to advertise it as "working"...
OK -- would the Xen side of these be something that could come in as 
"bug fixes", or should I take this off the list of 4.4 features?
 -George

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