Re: Xen 4.4 development update: Code freezing point reached

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

On 11/18/2013 07:22 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 06:19:46PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
>>
>> = Timeline =
>>
>> Here is our current timeline based on a 6-month release:
>>
>> * Feature freeze: 18 October 2013
>> * Code freezing point: 18 November 2013 <== WE ARE HERE
>> * First RC: 6 December 2013
>> * Release: 21 January 2014
>>
>> Last updated: 18 November 2016
>>
>
> 2016 :)
>
>
>>
>> == Backlog ==
>>
>>
>> === Big ticket items ===
>>
>
>   * PCI hole resize support hvmloader/qemu-traditional/qemu-upstream with PCI/GPU passthrough
>     http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-05/msg02813.html
>     Where Stefano writes:
>
>     1) modify upstream QEMU to start the PCI hole at 0xe0000000, to match
>     qemu-xen-unstable in terms of configuration and not to introduce any
>     regressions. Do this for the Xen 4.3 release.
>
>     2) for Xen 4.4 rework the two patches above and improve
>     i440fx_update_pci_mem_hole: resizing the pci_hole subregion is not
>     enough, it also needs to be able to resize the system memory region
>     (xen.ram) to make room for the bigger pci_hole

Right -- I'll put it on my list; but given that it needs a new interface 
into qemu, and work hasn't even begun on that yet, I rather doubt it's 
going to make it for 4.4, unfortunately. :-(

  -George