Re: Xen 4.3 development update, 18 March

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 03/18/2013 12:31 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 12:13 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
>>
>>> == Bugs ==
>> [...]
>>> * Install into /usr/local by default
>>>    owner: Ian Campbell
>>
>> Possibly not strictly speaking a "bug"?
>>
>> IMHO this is ready to go in and just needs review of the two patches in
>> <1360081162.23001.31.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>.
>>
>> The other wrinkle is that this is my last day in the office for a few
>> weeks, so even with the review I'd be reluctant to just throw it in a
>> FRO out of the country without a backup who is at least willing to
>> revert on disaster if not actually fixup any issues discovered in
>> testing.
>>
>>> == Not yet complete ==
>>
>>> * ARM v7 server port
>>>    owner: ijc@citrix
>>>    prognosis: Excellent
>>>    status: Core hypervisor and Linux patches accepted.  Tools patches submitted.
>>>
>>> * ARM v8 server port (tech preview)
>>>    owner: ijc@citrix
>>>    status: ?
>>>    prognosis: Tech preview only
>>
>> There are a few outstanding patch series and there may be other stuff
>> which comes along but what is in tree now for v7 and v8 is in pretty
>> good shape I think.
>>
>> So I think we could reasonably call these done for 4.3. Stefano what do
>> you think?
>
> I think we need SMP guest support before we can call them done

Do you think that may be ready for v7 by the time we do a code freeze? 
Will ARM v7 be *ready* in 4.3, or still be mainly a tech preview?

  -George