From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Liu Subject: Re: Xen 4.7 Development Update Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 12:19:23 +0000 Message-ID: <20160201121923.GD10990@citrix.com> References: <56AF597702000078000CCEAF@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta4.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aQDSH-0005Bm-Cz for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:19:41 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56AF597702000078000CCEAF@prv-mh.provo.novell.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: Jan Beulich Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, wei.liu2@citrix.com, Shuai Ruan List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 05:11:19AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 01.02.16 at 11:45, wrote: > > * xsave/xrtors support > > - Shuai Ruan > > As per > http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-01/msg03264.html > and even more importantly > http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-01/msg03271.html > plus the lack of feedback from the original contributor on almost > any issues with that code (see e.g. also the recent Xen boot > problems, which lead to > http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-01/msg03742.html > ) I'm currently viewing this as a candidate for disabling prior to the > release, so that we (hopefully) won't end up with the same disaster > we had with the original enabling of xsave. I'll of course be more > than happy to be convinced that I'm completely off with the above > issues... > FWIW it is near Chinese New Year so we probably won't hear from the author any time soon. I will remove it from "completed" section. We still have two months time to revert those patches, provided they don't stay in the way of other changes. Wei. > Jan >