Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.8 Development Update

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:35:45AM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi Wei,
> 
> On 19/07/16 14:48, Wei Liu wrote:
> > This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items 
> > you
> > woulk like to see in 4.8 so that people have an idea what is going on and
> > prioritise accordingly.
> > 
> > You're welcome to provide description and use cases of the feature you're
> > working on.
> 
> ...
> 
> I started working on ARM GICv3 ITS emulation. The ITS provides MSI-X
> support for ARM machines using a GICv3 interrupt controller and having
> it emulated in the hypervisor is a prerequisite for running any guests
> (including Dom0) on machines which don't have GICv2 compatibility support.
> I will focus on Dom0 support first, with DomU following afterwards. I
> expect to have a working prototype soon and will post patches as soon as
> this gets into a reviewable state, but definitely before the "last
> posting date" in September.
> 
> So can you please add this item (below) to the tracking list?
> If you need more information, please let me know.
> 

Sure and done.

Your description is good enough for me to know what that does. :-)

Wei.

> > === ARM === 
> > 
> > *  Xen ARM DomU ACPI support
> >   -  Shannon Zhao
> > 
> > *  Alternative patching support
> >   -  Julien Grall
> 
>   * ITS emulation (Dom0 only)
>     - Andre Przywara
> 
> Cheers,
> Andre.

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