Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.8 Development Update

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/07/16 14:48, Wei Liu wrote:
> This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
> woulk like to see in 4.8 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 4.8 timeline are as followed:
> 
> * Last posting date: September 16, 2016
> * Hard code freeze: September 30, 2016
> * RC1: TBD
> * Release: December 2, 2016
> 
> Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> that wish to go into 4.8 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 == 
> 
> *  Make credit2 default scheduler for Xen
>   -  Dario Faggioli
> 
> === x86 === 
> 
> *  Allow ioreq server interface to support XenGT
>   -  Yu Zhang
>   -  Paul Durrant
> 
> *  PVHv2 support
>   -  Roger Pau Monne
> 
> *  vNVDIMM support
>   -  Haozhong Zhang
> 
> === ARM === 
> 
> *  Xen ARM DomU ACPI support
>   -  Shannon Zhao
> 
> *  Alternative patching support
>   -  Julien Grall
> 
> == Toolstack == 
> 
> *  Make ACPI builder available to components other than hvmloader
>   -  Boris Ostrovsky
> 
> *  Libxl PVSCSI support
>   -  Olaf Hering
> 
> *  HVM USB passthrough
>   -  George Dunlap

I am not currently working on this, so you can probably remove it from
the list for now.

 -George

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