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Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v4 -> v5: - Add gitlab CI improvement following Michal's suggestion. - Add Julien's reviewed-by. v3 -> v4: - Use the corrected sentence for VIRT_SSBD and MSR_SPEC_CTRL - Clarify that the virtio-mmio toolstack for ARM is only creating the device-tree binding. - Remove the "initial" in i.MX entry. v2 -> v3: - Move the uncertain release date to patch #3. v1 -> v2: - Correct wording for two x86 entries (clock frequency calibration and SPR & ADL support) following Jan's suggestion. - Add missing Arm entries from Oleksandr. - Add missing i.MX entry following Stefano's suggestion. --- CHANGELOG.md | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index adbbb216fa..55dd535e29 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -4,16 +4,44 @@ Notable changes to Xen will be documented in this file. The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) -## [unstable UNRELEASED](https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=staging) - TBD +## [4.17.0](https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=staging) ### Changed - On x86 "vga=current" can now be used together with GrUB2's gfxpayload setting. Note that this requires use of "multiboot2" (and "module2") as the GrUB commands loading Xen. + - The "gnttab" option now has a new command line sub-option for disabling the + GNTTABOP_transfer functionality. + - The x86 MCE command line option info is now updated. ### Added / support upgraded + - Out-of-tree builds for the hypervisor now supported. + - The project has officially adopted 4 directives and 24 rules of MISRA-C, + added MISRA-C checker build integration, and defined how to document + deviations. - IOMMU superpage support on x86, affecting PV guests as well as HVM/PVH ones when they don't share page tables with the CPU (HAP / EPT / NPT). - - Support VIRT_SSBD feature for HVM guests on AMD. + - Support for VIRT_SSBD and MSR_SPEC_CTRL for HVM guests on AMD. + - Improved TSC, CPU, and APIC clock frequency calibration on x86. + - Add mwait-idle support for SPR and ADL on x86. + - Extend security support for hosts to 12 TiB of memory on x86. + - Add command line option to set cpuid parameters for dom0 at boot time on x86. + - Improved static configuration options on Arm. + - cpupools can be specified at boot using device tree on Arm. + - It is possible to use PV drivers with dom0less guests, allowing statically + booted dom0less guests with PV devices. + - On Arm, p2m structures are now allocated out of a pool of memory set aside at + domain creation. + - Improved mitigations against Spectre-BHB on Arm. + - Support VirtIO-MMIO devices device-tree binding creation in toolstack on Arm. + - Allow setting the number of CPUs to activate at runtime from command line + option on Arm. + - Grant-table support on Arm was improved and hardened by implementing + "simplified M2P-like approach for the xenheap pages" + - Add Renesas R-Car Gen4 IPMMU-VMSA support on Arm. + - Add i.MX lpuart and i.MX8QM support on Arm. + - Improved toolstack build system. + - Add Xue - console over USB 3 Debug Capability. + - gitlab-ci automation: Fixes and improvements together with new tests. ### Removed / support downgraded - dropped support for the (x86-only) "vesa-mtrr" and "vesa-remap" command line options -- 2.25.1
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