Re: [Xen-devel] What went in Linux 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 from Xenstandpoint.

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Fri Feb 15 2013 - 12:30:54 EST


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 04:47:47PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 15.02.13 at 17:26, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > v3.7:
> > - Initial support for ARM working under Xen as both guest and initial
> > domain.
> > - Security fixes.
> > - Fix RCU warning, add fallback code for old hypervisors, fix memory leaks in
> > gntdev driver, fix some pvops calls failing, Fixes in
> > xen-[kbd|fb|blk|net|hvc]-backend to deal with CLOSED transition
> > - Allow xen/privcmd to use v2 of MMAPBATCH command (and fixes for it)
> > - Support Xen backends to work with paged out grants (meaning work with HVM
> > guests that have its memory paged out)
> > - Performance optimization in xen/privcmd for migrating guests.
> > - Performance improvements when doing kdump for PVonHVM guests.
> > - Xen DBGP driver added (USB EHCI debug driver)
> > - FLR support in xen-pciback.
> > - Support wildcards in xen-pciback.hide=(*) argument parsing.
> > - Xen EFI support,
>
> Where?

That should have said Xen VESA EFI support. Thanks for spotting that.

>
> > and keyboard shift status flag.
> > - Late usage of Xen-SWIOTLB allowing PV PCI passthrough guest to boot without
> > 'iommu=soft' as an argument and late initialization of SWIOTLB.
> > - Support more than 128GB in a PV guest.
> > - Cleanups in the initial pagetable creation.
>
> Jan
>
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