Re: [Xen-devel] Upstream Qemu Status (Was: Re: 4.2 TODO / Release Status)

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 16:06 +0100, Shriram Rajagopalan wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 10:54 -0400, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>         > On Tue, 8 May 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
>         > > Where are we with the following?
>         > >
>         > > I've not seen anything recently about PCI passthrough.
>         >
>         > The last patch series that was sent is:
>         >
>         > http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=133346733411606&w=2
>         >
>         > it is still stuck waiting for reviews. Given that QEMU is in
>         freeze for
>         > the next release release now, I don't think anything is
>         going to happen
>         > in the next few weeks.
>         > I could backport the patch series to the upstream QEMU tree
>         that we use
>         > with xen-unstable, but considering that we are in freeze
>         ourselves and
>         > that upstream QEMU is not used by default with HVM guests we
>         > might as well wait for the beginning of the next release
>         cycle.
>         
>         
>         Thanks. I will mark these as "deferred to 4.3" and remove from
>         the list.
>         If they do go into upstream we can revisit whether we
>         backport.
>         
>         > > Is it still the case that save/restore is waiting on
>         lib{c,l} patches
>         > > and Remus is waiting for those? What's the hold up there?
>         >
>         > The libxl save/restore patches haven't been applied yet.
>         
>         
>         
>         Ian J -- have you dropped these or are you waiting for
>         something?
>         
>         
>          
>         
>  
> Ian J, also note that the remus libxl patches may not apply cleanly
> after
> applying stefano's patches (even these might require some re-basing),
> given that a lot of patches that came in later (the event based stuff,
> Ian C's refactorings,etc)
> went in.
> 
> If you could just let me know when they have been committed, I can
> certainly rebase mine and post them.

Seems like this request was missed -- the libxl save patches seem to be
in now, please do rebase+repost.

Ian.



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