Re: Xen 4.2 TODO / Release Plan

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>]

>>> On 07.08.12 at 20:13, "Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@intel.com> wrote:
> Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 07.08.12 at 09:50, Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 07/08/2012 07:38, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Otoh, restoring from saved state that only includes MCG_CAP (but
>>>> no MCi_CTL2-s) needs to be handled anyway (forcing MCi_CTL2
>>>> to be zero, which would be trivial as that's the startup state, i.e.
>>>> the only complication here is the variable size save record), so
>>>> pushing this to post-4.2 as well is a reasonable alternative.
>>>> 
>>>> Keir, Ian?
>>> 
>>> I think we should leave it and handle the variable-sized save record
>>> in 4.3. Using hvm_load_entry_zeroextend() to read in save records,
>>> with zero padding for older shorter records, should be
>>> straightforward enough. 
>> 
>> Okay. So Ian, you could then take the corresponding item
>> off the list. Or do you do that only once patches make it
>> through the regression tester?
>> 
> 
> So we will leave it and handle it after 4.2, right?

Yes. It would be nice if you could then resubmit the rest of
the series, addressing pending review comments.

Jan