From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?Um9nZXIgUGF1IE1vbm7DqQ==?= Subject: Re: Xen 4.4 development update: RC0 imminent Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:42:09 +0100 Message-ID: <52A0ACE1.5040404@citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta4.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Voc0E-0002wO-Fe for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:42:14 +0000 In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: George Dunlap , xen-devel Cc: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= , Fabio Fantoni , Wei Liu , David Vrabel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 05/12/13 17:29, George Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM, George Dunlap > wrote: >> This information will be mirrored on the Xen 4.4 Roadmap wiki page: >> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Roadmap/4.4 >> >> We're nearly to the completion of the code freeze, scheduled for >> tomorrow. After the code freeze, only bug fixes and features marked >> as "blockers" will be considered. At the moment, the only feature >> considered a blocker is experimental PVH dom0 support. >> >> In early RCs, most bug fixes will be accepted; but in later RCs, even >> bug fixes may be rejected if they risk breaking more important >> functionality than they fix. >> >> I don't think at this point every bug fix needs a blessing from me; >> committers, if there are fixes which are obviously low-risk, just go >> ahead and check them in. >> >> I was thinking that for some of our new features, it would be good to >> have a blog post describing the feature and how to test it. This >> would both raise awareness of the feature, and hopefully get it more >> testing before the release. We could choose a couple to focus on for >> each test day. > > Features which might be worth highlighting for testing in blogs: > > * Non-udev scripts for driver domains (non-Linux driver domains) > - Roger Pau Monne > > * PHV domU (experimental only) > > * Improved Spice support on libxl > - Fabio Fantoni > > * Event channel scalability > - David Vrabel > > * pvgrub2 checked into grub upstream (external) > - Vladmir Servinenko > > * Guest EFI booting (tianocore) > - Wei Liu > > * kexec -- is this worth testing? > - David Vrabel > > * Disk: indirect descriptors (in 3.11) > - ? I did the implementation for this, but it's not directly related to Xen, just to the Linux kernel. I'm not sure it's fair to announce this as a new feature of Xen 4.4, when it completely depends on the Linux kernel version the user is running.