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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12 Development Update


  • To: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 10:56:03 +0000
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On 11/9/18 10:16 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
> would like to see in 4.12 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 about every 8 
> months.
> The upcoming 4.12 timeline are as followed:
> 
> * Last posting date: December 14th, 2018
>   Last posting date for patches touching ARM code: December 1st, 2018
> * Hard code freeze: January 11th, 2019
>   Hard code freeze for patches touching ARM code: December 21st, 2018
> * RC1: TBD
> * Release: March 7th, 2019
> 
> Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> that wish to go into 4.12 must be posted no later than the last posting
> date. All patches posted after that date will be automatically queued
> into next release.

Sorry, do you mean "...must be posted no later than the hard code freeze"?

Previously "Last posting date" has meant that as long as v1 was posted
before that date, vN can be checked in any time before the hard code
freeze.  Just checking to see that that's still the  meaning.

> = Projects =
> 
> == Hypervisor == 
> 
> *  Per-cpu tasklet
>   -  XEN-28
>   -  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> 
> *  Improvements to domain creation (v2)
>   -  Andrew Cooper
> 
> *  Argo (inter-VM communication)
>   -  Christopher Clark
> 
> === x86 === 
> 
> *  hypervisor x86 instruction emulator additions (v2)
>   -  Jan Beulich
> 
> *  PV-IOMMU (v6)
>   -  Paul Durrant
> 
> *  HVM guest CPU topology support (RFC)
>   -  Chao Gao
> 
> *  Intel Processor Trace virtualization enabling (v1)
>   -  Luwei Kang
> 
> *  Linux stub domains (RFC v2)
>   -  Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
> 
> *  dom0less (boot multiple domains from device tree) (v4)
>   -  Stefano Stabellini

You can add qemu-depriv to this list.  There's a reasonable chance that
it will be good enough for a "tech-preview" by Dec 14th.

Thanks,
 -George

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