Re: [Xen-devel] Opening Xen 4.4.1-pre for backports

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:17:25AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 17.03.14 at 19:02, Pasi Kärkkäinen<pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 02:30:05PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >> I have updated xen/Makefile's version number.  I take it we should be
> >> considering backport requests to apply to 4.4, where applicable, now ?
> >> 
> > 
> > I'd like to see at least the following backported to Xen 4.4.1:
> > 
> > - pygrub fixes (rhel7 beta support)
> > - qemu-upstream hvm vcpu hotplug patches (actually these seem to be already 
> > in 
> > qemu-upstream-4.4)
> > - RTC fixes (win2k3 crash fix)
> 
> I guess you mean 4c15a82f, c7e35c6e, and 6d27a537 here. I'm not
> sure I want to copy them over that quickly.
> 

Yep. I recall these were discussed during the 4.4-rc cycle and the thought was 
the RTC fixes would first go to master, and then after 4.4.0 release get 
backported to 4.4.1. 
Whatever timing is good.. 


> > - Konrad's serial console (SOL/AMT) patches / Broadcom TruManage NetXtreme 
> > UART patches
> 
> While for the .1 stable release we generally apply somewhat
> relaxed backporting rules, I'd still see some sort of justification
> for such a feature backport. Only bug fixes would generally be
> considered without further justification.
> 

Well having a working serial console (SOL/AMT) also for new hardware
is kind of important.. These patches sounded like they'll enable
serial on new/upcoming devices. 

Konrad can probably comment more about those.


> Jan

-- Pasi


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