Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.9 Development Update

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Julien Grall wrote:
> This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
> woulk like to see in 4.9 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 4.9 timeline are as followed:
> 
> * Last posting date: March 17th, 2017
> * Hard code freeze: March 31th, 2017
> * RC1: TBD
> * Release: June 2, 2017
> 
> Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> that wish to go into 4.9 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 == 
> 
> *  Boot Xen on EFI platforms using GRUB2 (multiboot2 protocol)
>   -  Daniel Kiper
> 
> *  Per-cpu tasklet
>   -  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> 
> === x86 === 
> 
> *  Allow ioreq server interface to support XenGT
>   -  Yu Zhang
>   -  Paul Durrant
> 
> *  PVHv2 support
>   -  Roger Pau Monne
> 
> *  vNVDIMM support
>   -  Haozhong Zhang
> 
> === ARM === 
> 
> *  ITS emulation (Dom0 only)
>   -  Andre Przywara
> 
> *  Altp2m for ARM
>   -  Sergej Proskurin
> 
> *  Support Tegra SoCs
>   -  Kyle Temkin
> 
> == Toolstack == 
> 
> *  Libxl PVSCSI support
>   -  Olaf Hering
> 
> *  Libxl depriv QEMU
>   -  Ian Jackson
> 
> *  Logging solution for Xen system
>   -  Wei Liu
> 
> *  Remove blktap2
>   -  Wei Liu
> 
> == Mini-OS == 
> 
> == GRUB == 
> 
> *  Support booting Xen ARM
>   -  Fu Wei
> 

Should we have a section on new PV drivers? If so, I suggest to add:
- Xen transport for 9pfs
- PV Calls


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