Re: [PATCH for-4.16 2/2] CHANGELOG: add missing entries for work during the 4.16 release cycle

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 06:11:07PM +0200, Oleksandr Tyshchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 11:54 AM Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Roger, all
> 
> [Sorry for the possible format issues]
> 
> Document some of the relevant changes during the 4.16 release cycle,
> > likely more entries are missing.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  CHANGELOG.md | 11 +++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
> > index ad1a8c2bc2..8b0bdd9cf0 100644
> > --- a/CHANGELOG.md
> > +++ b/CHANGELOG.md
> > @@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](
> > https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
> >   - qemu-traditional based device models (both, qemu-traditional and
> > ioemu-stubdom) will
> >     no longer be built per default. In order to be able to use those,
> > configure needs to
> >     be called with "--enable-qemu-traditional" as parameter.
> > + - Fixes for credit2 scheduler stability in corner case conditions.
> > + - Ongoing improvements in the hypervisor build system.
> > + - vtpmmgr miscellaneous fixes in preparation for TPM 2.0 support.
> > + - 32bit PV guests only supported in shim mode.
> > + - Improved PVH dom0 debug key handling.
> > + - Fix booting on some Intel systems without a PIT (i8254).
> >
> 
> I would add "Various fixes for OP-TEE mediator (Arm)" here and ...
> 
> 
> 
> > +
> > +### Added
> > + - 32bit Arm builds to the automated tests.
> > + - New x86 pagetable APIs.
> > + - Arm vPMU support.
> >
> 
> "Extended regions support, device tree only (Arm)" here.
> 
> ...
> The extended regions are ranges of unused address space exposed to domains
> as
> "safe to use" for special memory mappings.

I've worded this as:

"Report unpopulated memory regions safe to use for foreign mappings,
Arm and device tree only."

As "extended regions" was IMO too vague. Let me know if that's OK.

Thanks, Roger.