On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 3:42 AM Orzel, Michal via
lists.yoctoproject.org <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> 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.

Regardless of what I've done in the past, I'm still inclined to hold
the line on the versioning until at least the first -rc is released.

Bruce

>
> ~Michal
>
> 
>


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