Re: [Reminder] Feature Freeze is Fri Aug 29, 2025

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 25.08.2025 17:50, Oleksii Kurochko wrote:
> Hello community,
> 
> I’d like to remind everyone that the Feature Freeze deadline is approaching,
> and we still have some outstanding requests from the community for patch 
> series
> to be merged into 4.21:
> 
> 1. Enable guest suspend/resume support on ARM via vPSCI [1]
> 2. Introduce SCI SCMI SMC multi-agent support [2]
> 3. Introduce eSPI support [3]
> 4. FRED work: [4], [5], possibly others (?)
> 5. Introduce CONFIG_DOMCTL [6]
> 6. xen/x86: move domctl.o out of PV_SHIM_EXCLUSIVE [7]

As per a mail sent earlier today, for these two we will need to settle on
which route to take, including the consideration of whether the work can
realistically be completed in time (or whether an upfront exception could
be granted).

Jan

> 7. Some other patch series I missed.
> 
> It looks like some of these patch series still require additional work,
> and I’m not sure there is enough time left before the end of this week.
> 
> Could I kindly ask for an estimation of whether these tasks can be completed 
> in time?
> 
> [1]https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/87jz2vaq9h.fsf@xxxxxxxx/
> [2]https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/cover.1753184487.git.oleksii_moisieiev@xxxxxxxx/
> [3]https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/7e6477a83ab65220ef1c5dd22f4ef3536fbbdd5c.1754568795.git.leonid_komarianskyi@xxxxxxxx/
> 
> [4]https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20250808202314.1045968-1-andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx/
> [5]https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20250815204117.3312742-1-andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> [6]https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20250803094738.3625269-6-Penny.Zheng@xxxxxxx/
> [7]https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20250815102728.1340505-1-Penny.Zheng@xxxxxxx/
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
>    Oleksii
>