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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Xen 4.3 development update, and stock-taking
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:22:16 -0500
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To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:09:03AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 16.01.13 at 18:55, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> > * Persistent grants for blk (external)
> >   owner: roger.pau@citrix
> >   status: Initial implementation posted
> >   prognosis: ?
> 
> I think this went into 3.8-rc.
> 
> > * Scalability: 16TiB of RAM
> >   owner: jan@suse
> >   status: Not started
> 
> Patches almost ready to be posted (working fine for "normal"
> mode, but working on simulating the mode we'd be in when
> having this much of memory).
> 
> Prognosis: Good.
> 
> > * Remove hardcoded mobprobe's in xencommons
> >   owner: ?
> >   status: ?
> >   prognosis: Poor.
> 
> This was actually _promised_ to be a temporary hack, so I'd
> consider it a release blocker if nothing at all was done here.
> 
> > * Xen EFI boot
> >  - Signature checking for dom0 kernel / initrd?
> >  status: No owner.
> >  prognosis: Probably not for 4.4
> 
> This is already in the tree (c/s 26262:b62bd62b2683). Nothing else
> should be necessary on the hypervisor side if the shim is to be used.
> 
> But of course pv-ops Linux continues to lack EFI support altogether.

CC-ing Daniel here.