Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.10 Development Update

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

On 20/07/17 17:57, Manish Jaggi wrote:
> Hi Julien,
Hello Manish,

I am not sure why piggyback on Daniel Kiper as it is not related to your 
work...
> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 02:26:22PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> > > This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for
> > > items you
> > > woulk like to see in 4.10 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 4.10 timeline are as followed:
> > >
> > > * Last posting date: September 15th, 2017
> > > * Hard code freeze: September 29th, 2017
> > > * RC1: TBD
> > > * Release: December 2, 2017
> > >
> > > Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> > > that wish to go into 4.10 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.
> > >
> > > We recently introduced a jira instance to track all the tasks (not
> > > only big)
> > > for the project. See:
> > > https://xenproject.atlassian.net/projects/XEN/issues.
> > >
> > > Most of the tasks tracked by this e-mail also have a corresponding
> > > jira task
> > > referred by XEN-N.
> > >
> > > I have started to include the version number of series associated to
> > > each
> > > feature. Can each owner send an update on the version number if the
> > > series
> > > was posted upstream?
> > >
> > > = Projects =
> > >
> > > == Hypervisor ==
> > >
> > > *  Per-cpu tasklet
> > >    -  XEN-28
> > >    -  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> > >
> > > *  Add support of rcu_idle_{enter,exit}
> > >    -  XEN-27
> > >    -  Dario Faggioli
> > >
> > > === x86 ===
... and answer on x86 category when your items look ARM specific.

> I am working on XEN-70, have already posted rfc. [1]
>
> Also can you please add a xen-jira issue for the ITS ACPI support [2] v2
> patches,
> which I have already sent and am working on next rev.
This is already existing in Jira. See XEN-75.

But as said at the beginning of the e-mail, this is only tracking big 
features. We can't possible track all small items as the mail would 
become too long.
I don't consider the two features you mention as big and don't see the 
need to track them here. But they are already tracked in Jira.
Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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