From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: Xen 4.6 Development Update (three months reminder) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 01:21:39 +0100 Message-ID: <55402413.8070409@citrix.com> References: <553FC0C7.50402@suse.com> <554006ED.40300@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YnOiJ-0001mP-Hb for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:55:31 +0000 In-Reply-To: <554006ED.40300@suse.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jim Fehlig , wei.liu2@citrix.com Cc: elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com, feng.wu@intel.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, oleksandr.dmytryshyn@globallogic.com, chegger@amazon.de, cyliu@suse.com, fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz, edgar.iglesias@gmail.com, chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com, parth.dixit@linaro.org, dgolomb@seas.upenn.edu, manishjaggi.oss@gmail.com, kai.huang@linux.intel.com, jtweaver@hawaii.edu, vijay.kilari@gmail.com, rcojocaru@bitdefender.com, ross.lagerwall@citrix.com, tamas.lengyel@zentific.com, Vijaya.Kumar@caviumnetworks.com, anthony.perard@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, eshelton@pobox.com, olaf@aepfle.de, ian.campbell@citrix.com, wency@cn.fujitsu.com, julien.grall@linaro.org, frediano.ziglio@huawei.com, quan.xu@intel.com, tiejun.chen@intel.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, andrii.tseglytskyi@globallogic.com, jgross@suse.com, talex5@gmail.com, malcolm.crossley@citrix.com, ard.bie List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 28/04/15 23:17, Jim Fehlig wrote: > Jim Fehlig wrote: >> wei.liu2@citrix.com wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> We are now three months into 4.6 development window. This is an email to keep >>> track of all the patch series I gathered. It is by no means complete and / or >>> acurate. Feel free to reply this email with new projects or correct my >>> misunderstanding. >>> >>> >> [...] >> >>> * libxl: add qxl vga interface support for upstream qemu (fair) >>> - Fabio Fantoni >>> >>> >> I've been working on SPICE support in the libvirt libxl driver and >> quickly came across the lack of support for qxl device. What is the >> status of this work? AFAICT, there was a v16 posted nearly a year ago >> with no comments >> >> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-05/msg03214.html >> > After playing with this more, I think the patch will need a > LIBXL_HAVE_QXL or similar in libxl.h. > >> I noticed this work was committed in the 4.3 dev cycle, but was reverted >> before the release by commit 5479961a, which describes problems with >> "instructions that cannot be used for MMIO". Has any progress been made >> on that front? Is Fabio's patch the only piece missing to support qxl >> devices? >> > I've tried Fabio's patch on top of fairly recent xen-unstable and don't > see the issues mentioned in the commit message of 5479961a. Note that I > only tried linux HVM guests though. 16byte decomposed instruction still don't get passed correctly to the device model. This has been discussed at the hackathon and plan is in place. ~Andrew