Re: Xen 4.4 development update: RC0 imminent

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On 05/12/13 17:29, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM, George Dunlap
> <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>> This information will be mirrored on the Xen 4.4 Roadmap wiki page:
>>  http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Roadmap/4.4
>>
>> We're nearly to the completion of the code freeze, scheduled for
>> tomorrow.  After the code freeze, only bug fixes and features marked
>> as "blockers" will be considered.  At the moment, the only feature
>> considered a blocker is experimental PVH dom0 support.
>>
>> In early RCs, most bug fixes will be accepted; but in later RCs, even
>> bug fixes may be rejected if they risk breaking more important
>> functionality than they fix.
>>
>> I don't think at this point every bug fix needs a blessing from me;
>> committers, if there are fixes which are obviously low-risk, just go
>> ahead and check them in.
>>
>> I was thinking that for some of our new features, it would be good to
>> have a blog post describing the feature and how to test it.  This
>> would both raise awareness of the feature, and hopefully get it more
>> testing before the release.  We could choose a couple to focus on for
>> each test day.
> 
> Features which might be worth highlighting for testing in blogs:
> 
> * Non-udev scripts for driver domains (non-Linux driver domains)
>  - Roger Pau Monne
> 
> * PHV domU (experimental only)
> 
> * Improved Spice support on libxl
>  - Fabio Fantoni
> 
> * Event channel scalability
>  - David Vrabel
> 
> * pvgrub2 checked into grub upstream (external)
>  - Vladmir Servinenko
> 
> * Guest EFI booting (tianocore)
>  - Wei Liu
> 
> * kexec -- is this worth testing?
>  - David Vrabel
> 
> * Disk: indirect descriptors (in 3.11)
>  - ?

I did the implementation for this, but it's not directly related to Xen,
just to the Linux kernel. I'm not sure it's fair to announce this as a
new feature of Xen 4.4, when it completely depends on the Linux kernel
version the user is running.