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From: "André Przywara" <andre.przywara@arm.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Vijay Kilari <vijay.kilari@gmail.com>,
	Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: Code freeze exception for Xen 4.9 ARM ITS emulation?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:26:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8b8e765-0e50-114d-09fe-409fe2a9fb1e@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e91f07e-24a1-cbdd-04b0-60bc1016eee5@arm.com>

On 13/04/17 14:29, Julien Grall wrote:

Hi Julien,

>> The development of the ARM ITS emulation support has taken more time
>> than anticipated and I won't be able to address and fix all outstanding
>> comments until the official code freeze date.
>>
>> However the first part of the series is in a good shape and should be
>> ready to be merged in time.
>>
>> I was wondering if I could be granted a brief code freeze exception for
>> the remaining part of the series?
> 
> Thank you for your contributions. I spent yesterday reviewing the latest
> version (v8) and discovered potential locking issues in the series.

I see and honestly don't know an easy solution for this nasty problem.

> My understanding is they are not easily solvable and would require some
> rework of the vGIC. So I am afraid to say that ITS will not get merged
> for Xen 4.9. But keep in mind you can continue to work on this series
> and get it applied once next development window opens.

OK, thanks for your and Stefano's massive efforts in this matter anyway
and for your support and help.

I am looking forward to getting this code in the right shape in the next
weeks.

Cheers,
Andre.


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      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-13 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-07 17:34 Code freeze exception for Xen 4.9 ARM ITS emulation? Andre Przywara
2017-04-07 22:30 ` Stefano Stabellini
2017-04-13 13:29 ` Julien Grall
2017-04-13 22:26   ` André Przywara [this message]

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