Hello, On 28/11/2023 04:11, Christopher Clark wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 6:08 AM Michal Orzel <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Bruce, > > On 27/11/2023 14:55, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 5:38 AM Michal Orzel <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> Some follow-up patches after a recent Xen recipes update. > >> > >> Open question: > >> Shouldn't we set 4.18 as a default version? > > > > Not yet (and definitely not for nanbield). Perhaps once it has been > under > > test for a few weeks. I did the updates to get them some extra soak time > > and make them available in both the upcoming release (nanbield) and > > master for those that want to use the latest, without making it a > default > > version jump so late in the cycle. > Ok. > > > Thanks, Bruce. > > > > > > > As for the changes in master, the 4.18 version on the _git recipes is > > intentional, as there's been no 4.19 tag that I can find and I don't > bump > > versions until I see that in the repo .. so for now, it is just the +git > > and +stable that is the difference between the 4.18 and _git versions. > You won't see any 4.19 tag until the next release. The version is > advertised in > the main Makefile [1] and this is what user can see in the system > (e.g. in the boot log, xl info, xen_version hypercall). > Bumping the XEN_REL of master recipes > > > I think it could be helpful for the context of this thread to describe them > as the "git recipes" rather than using the term "master recipe", because the > latter unfortunately seems to convey that they are somehow superior to the > other, versioned, Xen recipes, when in practice they are not -- they are > deliberately not the default version of Xen that is built since, as you note, > they are defined: > > > to reflect the current development version > > > of Xen. ie. The git recipes are present alongside the other recipes that > provide the stable release version(s) of Xen. > > As Michal has noted above, putting 4.19 for XEN_REL into the git recipe does > look right from a Xen source tree perspective for that SRCREV, even though > there is not a 4.19 Xen release, but the proposed commit message should be > updated to avoid the term "master recipe". Sounds good to me.
@Bruce, may I please ask you to take my patch modifying XEN_REL and do s/master/git in title on commit? If not, I will push a v2 of this patch. ~Michal
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