From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chun Yan Liu" Subject: Re: Xen 4.7 Development Update Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:57:28 -0700 Message-ID: <568BD9D802000066000968FA@relay2.provo.novell.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aGLYt-0006jK-9P for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 06:57:43 +0000 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: wei.liu2@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>> On 1/4/2016 at 06:15 PM, in message , Wei Liu wrote: > This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you > woulk like to see in 4.7 so that people have an idea what is going on and > prioritise accordingly. > > You're welcome to provide description and use cases of the feature you're > working on. > > = Timeline = > > We now adopt a fixed cut-off date scheme. We will release twice a > year. The upcoming 4.7 timeline are as followed: > > * Last posting date: March 18, 2016 > * Hard code freeze: April 1, 2016 > * RC1: TBD > * Release: June 3, 2016 > > Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches > that wish to go into 4.7 must be posted no later than the last posting > date. All patches posted after that date will be automatically queued > into next release. > > RCs will be arranged immediately after freeze. > > = Projects = > > == Hypervisor == > > * Use Kconfig to configure hypervisor components > - Doug Goldstein > > === x86 === > > * CPUID handling improvement > - Andrew Cooper > > * VMWare tools support > - Don Slutz > > * xSplice, hypervisor hot-patching > - Konrad Wilk > - Ross Lagerwall > > * Porting Intel PState driver > - Wei Wang > > * HVM-nodm support > - Roger Pau Monne > > * Posted interrupt > - Wu, Feng > > * VMX TSC scaling support > - Haozhong Zhang > > * VT-d asynchronous flush issue > - Quan Xu > > * Memory protection-key support > - Huaitong Han > > === ARM === > > * Guest save / restore support > - Ian Campbell > > == Toolstack == > > * Make it easy to run xenstore in a domain > - Juergen Gross > > * Libxc support for migrating large PV domains > - Juergen Gross > > * Disentangle libxenctrl to stable libraries > - Ian Campbell > > * Libxl PVSCSI support > - Olaf Hering > > * PV USB passthrough > - Chunyan Liu Reviewed by George Dunlap. V12: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-12/msg02697.html > > * HVM USB passthrough > - George Dunlap > > * QEMU based PVUSB backend > - Juergen Gross > > * Domain snapshot API > - Chunyan Liu Doc: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-08/msg00884.html RFC implementation, has many limitations, call for comments: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-08/msg02384.html Chunyan > > * Fix hotplug script machinery and remove blktap > - George Dunlap > > * Basic xSplice tooling (see hypervisor item) > - Konrad Wilk > > * Load BIOS via toolstack > - Anthony Perard > > * Libxl depriv QEMU > - Ian Jackson > > * COLO > - Wen Congyang > > == Documentation == > > * Feature maturity lifecycle > - Lars Kurth > > == Completed == > > * vgic-v3 > - Julien Grall > > * xsave/xrtors support > - Shuai Ruan > > * Toolstack-based soft reset > - Vitaly Kuznetsov > > * Libxc support for building large PV domains > - Juergen Gross > > * Run QEMU as non-root > - Stefano Stabellini > > * Intel CDP support > - He Chen > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel > >