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

[Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/26/25 9:12 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:

> On 25/08/2025 4:50 pm, 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 (?)
> >       
> For FRED, That's all that's out on the list.
>
> I've got an update to 4 almost ready to post, this time getting to dev
> complete.
>
> Unfortunately, I've still not managed to get any time on real hardware
> yet, so FRED will still be experimental in my series.  (The timelines
> were originally compatible with Xen 4.21, but access to hardware has not
> been as forthcoming as hoped.)
>
> When I can test on real hardware, there may be bugfixes, and I may be
> able to upgrade the status if we're not too far into the RCs.
>     
Sounds good to me. Let’s wait until you’re able to test it on real hardware.
We’ll have some extra time during the Feature Freeze period, and the RCs
will be moved as well. I’ll announce this a little later today.

~ Oleksii

> ~Andrew
>