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

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Message-ID: <20130215173041.GB10133@phenom.dumpdata.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:30:41 -0500
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Cc:	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>, gavin.bowe@...cle.com,
	kurt.hackel@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] What went in Linux 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 from Xen
 standpoint.

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@...cle.com> 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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