Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.9 Development Update

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefano,

On 08/12/16 22:00, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Julien Grall wrote:
> > This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
> > woulk like to see in 4.9 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.
> >
> > = Timeline =
> >
> > We now adopt a fixed cut-off date scheme. We will release twice a
> > year. The upcoming 4.9 timeline are as followed:
> >
> > * Last posting date: March 17th, 2017
> > * Hard code freeze: March 31th, 2017
> > * RC1: TBD
> > * Release: June 2, 2017
> >
> > Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> > that wish to go into 4.9 must be posted no later than the last posting
> > date. All patches posted after that date will be automatically queued
> > into next release.
> >
> > RCs will be arranged immediately after freeze.
> >
> > = Projects =
> >
> > == Hypervisor ==
> >
> > *  Boot Xen on EFI platforms using GRUB2 (multiboot2 protocol)
> >   -  Daniel Kiper
> >
> > *  Per-cpu tasklet
> >   -  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> >
> > === x86 ===
> >
> > *  Allow ioreq server interface to support XenGT
> >   -  Yu Zhang
> >   -  Paul Durrant
> >
> > *  PVHv2 support
> >   -  Roger Pau Monne
> >
> > *  vNVDIMM support
> >   -  Haozhong Zhang
> >
> > === ARM ===
> >
> > *  ITS emulation (Dom0 only)
> >   -  Andre Przywara
> >
> > *  Altp2m for ARM
> >   -  Sergej Proskurin
> >
> > *  Support Tegra SoCs
> >   -  Kyle Temkin
> >
> > == Toolstack ==
> >
> > *  Libxl PVSCSI support
> >   -  Olaf Hering
> >
> > *  Libxl depriv QEMU
> >   -  Ian Jackson
> >
> > *  Logging solution for Xen system
> >   -  Wei Liu
> >
> > *  Remove blktap2
> >   -  Wei Liu
> >
> > == Mini-OS ==
> >
> > == GRUB ==
> >
> > *  Support booting Xen ARM
> >   -  Fu Wei
> Should we have a section on new PV drivers? If so, I suggest to add:
> - Xen transport for 9pfs
> - PV Calls
Good idea. We could also include DRM and PV Sound (CC Oleksandr).

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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