Re: Xen 4.5 development update (July update)

[Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>]

On 07/23/14 09:03, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Don Slutz wrote:
>> On 07/23/14 06:20, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>> (trimming CC to just those related to things I've commented on)
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 20:28 -0400, konrad.wilk@oracle.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> == QEMU ==
>>>>>
>>>>> *  Rebase of QEMU 2.0 and SeaBIOS (fair)
>>>>>     -  Ian Jackson
>>>> What is this? Neither of them sound like Ian J things. Stefano maintains
>>>> Qemu and I take care of SeaBIOS.
>>> Yeah, it should be me for QEMU and it is done.
>>>
>>>
>>>> >From the SeaBIOS side we are currently using the latest upstream.
>>>>
>>>> IIRC Stefano has merged the version of qemu which he intends 4.5 to ship
>>>> with, but he should confirm...
>>> Yes, I have already merged QEMU 2.0.0 and I am not planning to merge
>>> again a new QEMU upstream release before 4.5.
>>>
>> Based on this,
>>
>> Message-ID: <1405424067-23136-1-git-send-email-dslutz@verizon.com>
>> http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-07/msg01923.html
>>
>> Needs to wait for 4.6
>>      -Don Slutz
> I would be happy to backport that patch once it is upstream.

The change that was accepted by QEMU upstream depends on a big batch
of other changes (commit c4f5cdc53f181f6fe84a0f1bf99914598934a8a6)
So the backport to QEMU 2.0.x is not simple.

I can provide a QEMU 2.0.x patch that is based on the accepted name and
way it is used, but uses a global variable instead of a property on the
machine object.  I.E. a simple patch.

Let me know if you want this.
     -Don Slutz