Re: Xen 4.4 development update

[Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>]

Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 2:16:24 PM, you wrote:

> I'm filing in for George while he is on vacation and travelling to a
> conference etc. I'm still coming up to speed wrt what is going on with
> this release so please do correct me when I'm wrong. George will be
> back on 20 January.

> This information will be mirrored on the Xen 4.4 Roadmap wiki page:
>  http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Roadmap/4.4

> We tagged 4.4.0-rc1 on 19 December. Based on the conversation had last
> time and on George's final comments in [1] I think this means that PVH
> dom0 support has not made the cut for 4.4, which is a shame but there
> is plenty of good functionality (including PVH domU support) in there.

> [1] http://bugs.xenproject.org/xen/mid/%3C52B05C0A.4040404@eu.citrix.com%3E

> = Timeline =

> Here is our current timeline based on a 6-month release:

> * Feature freeze: 18 October 2013 
> * Code freezing point: 18 November 2013
> * First RCs: 6 December 2013  <== WE ARE HERE
> * Release: 21 January 2014

> Last updated: 8 January 2014

> == Completed ==

<snip>

> * PHV domU (experimental only)

<snip>

> === Big ticket items ===

> * PVH dom0 (w/ Linux) 
>   blocker
>   owner: mukesh@oracle, george@citrix
>   status (Linux): Acked, waiting for ABI to be nailed down
>   status (Xen): v6 posted; no longer considered a blocker

Perhaps worth noting as a separate non-blocking (for 4.5) item:
* PVH support for AMD (/SVM)

And also mention this "lack" of support in the announcement of the new experimental feature PVH.