From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] README, xen/Makefile: Update to Xen 4.5.0
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:17:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1420564632-32715-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420564632-32715-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Expand the README file to give a brief view of what went in
Xen 4.5.0. Also change the Makefile to not use the '-rc'
postfix.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
README | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
xen/Makefile | 2 +-
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 412607a..26432b4 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
#################################
-__ __ _ _ ____ _ _ _
-\ \/ /___ _ __ | || | | ___| _ _ _ __ ___| |_ __ _| |__ | | ___
- \ // _ \ '_ \ | || |_ |___ \ _____| | | | '_ \/ __| __/ _` | '_ \| |/ _ \
- / \ __/ | | | |__ _| ___) |_____| |_| | | | \__ \ || (_| | |_) | | __/
-/_/\_\___|_| |_| |_|(_)____/ \__,_|_| |_|___/\__\__,_|_.__/|_|\___|
+
+\ \/ /___ _ __ | || | | ___| / _ \
+ \ // _ \ '_ \ | || |_ |___ \| | | |
+ / \ __/ | | | |__ _| ___) | |_| |
+/_/\_\___|_| |_| |_|(_)____(_)___/
#################################
@@ -19,14 +19,28 @@ is freely-distributable Open Source software, released under the GNU
GPL. Since its initial public release, Xen has grown a large
development community, spearheaded by xen.org (http://www.xen.org).
-The 4.3 release offers a number of improvements, including NUMA
-scheduling affinity, openvswitch integration, and defaulting to
-qemu-xen rather than qemu-traditional for non-stubdom guests.
-(qemu-xen is kept very close to the upstream project.) We also have a
-number of updates to vTPM, and improvements to XSM and Flask to allow
-greater disaggregation. Additionally, 4.3 contains a basic version of
-Xen for the new ARM server architecture, both 32- and 64-bit. And as
-always, there are a number of performance, stability, and security
+The 4.5 release offers a number of improvements: including shedding
+of the Python toolstack (xend), improvements for large scale machines
+during bootup and for PCI passthrough, PVH initial domain support for Intel,
+multiple IO-REQ servers (many QEMUs for a guest), soft affinity for vCPUs
+(aka NUMA affinity), API expansion for guest introspection; Real Time
+Scheduler. We also have number of updates for CPU specific changes, such
+as Broadwell Supervisor Mode Access Prevention, Haswell Bridge Cache QoS
+Monitoring aka Intel Resource Director Technology, and further extensions
+to vAPIC (SandyBridge feature), fixes in AMD microcode loading, and
+Data Breaking Extensions and masking MSR support on AMD.
+
+Additionally, 4.5 has a huge update to the ARM code allowing us to support
+more than 1TB guests, support for more than 8 CPUs, Power State Coordination
+Interface (0.2), UEFI booting, IOMMU support (SMMUv1), Super Page (2MB) support,
+passthrough of MMIO regions to guests, and lower interrupt latency.
+
+The toolstack has expanded to support VM Generation ID (an Windows 2012 Server
+requirement), Remus initial support (for high availability), libxenlight
+JSON support and persistent configuration support, systemd support, and
+lastly support in QEMU for expanding the PCI hole.
+
+And as always, there are a number of performance, stability, and security
improvements under-the hood.
This file contains some quick-start instructions to install Xen on
diff --git a/xen/Makefile b/xen/Makefile
index 72c1313..5d70741 100644
--- a/xen/Makefile
+++ b/xen/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# All other places this is stored (eg. compile.h) should be autogenerated.
export XEN_VERSION = 4
export XEN_SUBVERSION = 5
-export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= .0-rc$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)
+export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= .0$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)
export XEN_FULLVERSION = $(XEN_VERSION).$(XEN_SUBVERSION)$(XEN_EXTRAVERSION)
-include xen-version
--
2.1.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-06 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-06 17:17 (no subject) Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-01-06 17:17 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2015-01-06 17:40 ` [PATCH] README, xen/Makefile: Update to Xen 4.5.0 Julien Grall
2015-01-06 17:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-01-06 17:54 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2015-01-06 18:00 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-01-06 17:59 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-01-06 18:00 ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-06 18:06 ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-06 18:21 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-01-06 18:26 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-01-06 18:46 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2015-01-07 9:07 ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-06 19:14 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2015-01-06 19:30 ` Don Slutz
2015-01-07 15:27 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-01-07 15:33 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
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