On 05.08.2025 19:26, Miles Glenn wrote:
On Tue, 2025-07-22 at 17:25 +03..00, Michael Tokarev wrote:
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There are currently 2 active stable branches, 7.2 and 10.0.
Both are supposed to be long-term maintenance. I think 7.2
can be left behind already.
Thanks,
/mjt
Michael T.,
All of the XIVE fixes/changes originating from myself were made in an
effort to get PowerVM firmware running on PowerNV with minimal testing
of OPAL firmware. However, even with those fixes, running PowerVM on
PowerNV is still pretty unstable. While backporting these fixes would
likely increase the stability of running PowerVM on PowerNV, I do think
it could pose significant risk to the stability of running OPAL on
PowerNV. With that in mind, I think it's probably best if we did not
backport any of my own XIVE changes.
My view on this, - having in mind 10.0 most likely will be a long-term
support branch - we can pick the PowerVM changes, and if a breakage with
the case you mentioned is found (which will be the same breakage as with
master branch, hopefully), we can pick fixes for these too.
Especially as we have more time now after release of 10.1 and before the
next stable series.
So to me, breakage in stable series is not a good thing, but we can as
well fix it there, - so there might be some balance between known bugs,
possible breakage and future fixes.
But it's definitely your call, you know this area much better.
Thanks,
/mjt
