On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 9:57 AM Bruce Ashfield via
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> On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 9:55 AM Amneesh Singh <a-sing...@ti.com> wrote:
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>> On 09:44-20240906, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 9:37 AM Amneesh Singh <a-sing...@ti.com> wrote:
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>> > > Hello,
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>> > > Is backporting Xen 4.19+stable to scarthgap a possibility?
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>> > I don't hold quite as strictly to the "no new major versions in stable
>> > branches"
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>> I agree, freezing Xen to 4.18, would limit things in my opinion.
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> That's not quite what I meant.
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> There's very few recipes that we are willing to carry multiple versions
> of in main layers, Xen is one of them. If it wasn't for that, this would be
> a definite no, since if someone wants new features, we simply point
> them at the next release.
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> It also isn't something that I'd continually do (again, I'm only talking
> about the official meta-virt layers/branches) as more Xen releases
> arrive through the lifetime of a LTS. The support matrix is too high
> at that point, and again, I'd just point to the new releases.
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>> > as OE core does.  In particular for recipes that I carry multiple versions
>> > of.
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>> > Xen does fall into that category, if there's a compelling reason (i.e. a
>> > feature we can't backport that is required), then 4.19 could be added, but
>> > not made the default version (that would break policy).
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>> I am mostly interested in dynamic node programming using overlay dtbo.
>> Although, I have not tried it with dom0less domains yet.
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>> Other than that, I have a patchset which I'll have to rewrite to make it
>> work with 4.18 :p, so I was trying to avoid that.
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>> What do you think? Is it possible to make this work?
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> It should definitely be possible, and something I'm willing to do as it is
> an already tested version in master. I also so like to keep things we
> want to support in meta-virt itself, versus external mixin layers
> (when possible).
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> Have you tried just taking the recipes from meta-virt master and seeing
> how the work on scarthgap ? I'm still doing current release bug fixing
> and package updates, so it will be a while before I get a chance to try
> that myself.

I never did get any follow ups to this.

But I did go ahead and push a lightly tested Xen 4.19 recipe to scarthgap.

Bruce

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> Bruce
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>> > Bruce
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>> Regards
>> Amneesh
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