Re: Opening Xen 4.4.1-pre for backports

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 18/03/14 13:04, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:17:25AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 17.03.14 at 19:02, Pasi Kärkkäinen<pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 02:30:05PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>>> I have updated xen/Makefile's version number.  I take it we should be
>>>> considering backport requests to apply to 4.4, where applicable, now ?
>>>>
>>> I'd like to see at least the following backported to Xen 4.4.1:
>>>
>>> - pygrub fixes (rhel7 beta support)
>>> - qemu-upstream hvm vcpu hotplug patches (actually these seem to be already in 
>>> qemu-upstream-4.4)
>>> - RTC fixes (win2k3 crash fix)
>> I guess you mean 4c15a82f, c7e35c6e, and 6d27a537 here. I'm not
>> sure I want to copy them over that quickly.
>>
> Yep. I recall these were discussed during the 4.4-rc cycle and the thought was 
> the RTC fixes would first go to master, and then after 4.4.0 release get backported to 4.4.1. 
> Whatever timing is good.. 

For what it is worth, these patches have been running in XenServer from
around the time they were presented on the list, and we have had no
problems at all with them.  (In fairness, they had specifically fixed
the identified regressions as part of being posted.)

~Andrew