[Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Add Brian Woods as Designated reviewer to AMD IOMMU and AMD SVM

2018-04-24 Thread Lars Kurth
This was discussed in an IRC discussion post the April x86 meeting. Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index cc1fdc013f..fab76b0af4 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -

[Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS (plus a test case)

2018-04-24 Thread Lars Kurth
This follows up from a conversation after the April x86 community call, in which I had the following action: Lars to propose fixing CC issue in xen.git:MAINTAINERS copying the R section entries from Linux.git:MAINTAINERS (will need changes to get_maintainers.pl also) Lars Kurth (2): Add

[Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS file and add support for it in get_maintainer.pl

2018-04-24 Thread Lars Kurth
on a number of files using mock entries in MAINTAINERS using ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f ... I also tested --nor to disable the support and it worked as expected. Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 2 ++ scripts/get_maintainer.p

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen and safety certification, Minutes of the meeting on Apr 4th (Notes on MISRA, ISO 26262 static code analysis requirements)

2018-04-23 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, On 06/04/2018, 15:13, "Lars Kurth" <lars.ku...@citrix.com> wrote: > 1) Requirements to the code, a subset of MISRA for ASIL B > Next step: get more information about requirements and publish it to > xen-devel. I see a few problems h

Re: [Xen-devel] Setting up a call to discuss PCI Emulation - Future Direction

2018-04-23 Thread Lars Kurth
Alright: 17:00-18:00 it is. I will send out a separate mail with call-in details Lars On 23/04/2018, 15:24, "Chao Gao" <chao@intel.com> wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:12:22PM +0800, Chao Gao wrote: >On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:26:59AM +, Lars Kurth

Re: [Xen-devel] Setting up a call to discuss PCI Emulation - Future Direction

2018-04-23 Thread Lars Kurth
On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:01:49 +0100 Roger Pau Monné <roger@citrix.com> wrote: >On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:50:00PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: >> >> >> On 12/04/2018, 17:41, "Roger Pau Monne" <roger@citrix.com> >

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen and safety certification, Minutes of the meeting on Apr 4th (added brief meeting report from Genivi AMM)

2018-04-20 Thread Lars Kurth
On 20/04/2018, 19:40, "Rich Persaud" <pers...@gmail.com> wrote: On Apr 20, 2018, at 13:25, Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Lars Kurth wrote: >> ## Standardisation: virtio >> &g

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/6] arm: more kconfig configurability and small default configs

2018-04-19 Thread Lars Kurth
On 19/04/2018, 17:32, "Julien Grall" wrote: On 18/04/18 23:15, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Hi all, Hi, > This patch series is the first step toward building a small certifiable > Xen hypervisor for ARM boards. > > First,

[Xen-devel] Announcing the Xen Project 4.11 RC and Test Day Schedules

2018-04-18 Thread Lars Kurth
Dear community members, on Tuesday, we created Xen 4.1q RC1 and will release a new release candidate every FRIDAY, until we declare a release candidate as the final candidate and cut the Xen 4.11 release. We will also hold a Test Day every TUESDAY for the release candidate that was released the

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/5] SUPPORT.md: Move descriptions up before Status info

2018-04-17 Thread Lars Kurth
On 17/04/2018, 14:22, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH 4/5] SUPPORT.md: Move descriptions up before Status info"): > There were a couple of minor text changes for grammar reasons, which I noticed and

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS file and add support for it in get_maintainer.pl

2018-04-13 Thread Lars Kurth
On 13/04/2018, 18:14, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("[RFC PATCH 1/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS file and add support for it in get_maintainer.pl"): > The syntax has been copied from the Linux Maintainers

[Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS file and add support for it in get_maintainer.pl

2018-04-13 Thread Lars Kurth
as expected. Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 2 ++ scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 24 ++-- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index bbda4b9f43..29c0c4b3a7

[Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS (using a test case)

2018-04-13 Thread Lars Kurth
This follows up from a conversation after the April x86 community call, in which I had the following action: Lars to propose fixing CC issue in xen.git:MAINTAINERS copying the R section entries from Linux.git:MAINTAINERS (will need changes to get_maintainers.pl also) Lars Kurth (2): Add

[Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] Add Brian Woods as Designated reviewer to AMD IOMMU and AMD SVM

2018-04-13 Thread Lars Kurth
This was discussed in an IRC discussion post the April x86 meeting. Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 29c0c4b3a7..eb2c78ee43 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -

Re: [Xen-devel] Setting up a call to discuss PCI Emulation - Future Direction

2018-04-13 Thread Lars Kurth
On 13/04/2018, 11:01, "Roger Pau Monne" <roger@citrix.com> wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:50:00PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: > > > On 12/04/2018, 17:41, "Roger Pau Monne" <roger@citrix.com> wrote: > > On Th

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/5] SUPPORT.md: Document the new text ordering rule

2018-04-13 Thread Lars Kurth
On 13/04/2018, 11:31, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH 5/5] SUPPORT.md: Document the new text ordering rule"): ... > +In each case, descriptions which expand on the name of a feature as >

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/5] SUPPORT.md: Document the new text ordering rule

2018-04-13 Thread Lars Kurth
hich follow the Status indication are caveats or +qualifications of the information provided in Status fields. + ## Keys found in the Feature Support subsections ### Status Acked-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> __

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5] SUPPORT.md: Distinguish descriptions from caveats

2018-04-13 Thread Lars Kurth
On 12/04/2018, 19:29, "Ian Jackson" wrote: Ian Jackson writes ("[PATCH 0/5] SUPPORT.md: Distinguish descriptions from caveats"): > The new support matrix output puts a [*] after each entry in the > support matrix in many cases where the linked-to text is

Re: [Xen-devel] Setting up a call to discuss PCI Emulation - Future Direction

2018-04-12 Thread Lars Kurth
On 12/04/2018, 17:41, "Roger Pau Monne" <roger@citrix.com> wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:32:57PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: >may work. For me Mon, Wed and Fri’s generally work at those time-slots. >Next week is a little busy for me, so I woul

[Xen-devel] Setting up a call to discuss PCI Emulation - Future Direction

2018-04-12 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, I had an action to set up a call on discussing the future direction of PCI Emulation. I CC’ed everyone who raised an interest. I propose to use Gotomeeting unless there are objections. As far as I can tell, we have people in the following time-zones: PST to EST and BST. Not sure where

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v3 0/11] Provide support matrix generator

2018-04-12 Thread Lars Kurth
On 12/04/2018, 13:28, "Ian Jackson" wrote: This series provides code to generate a feature support matrix, to replace the one on the wiki. You can see an example of the output here:

Re: [Xen-devel] X86 Community Call: Wed March 14, 15:00 - 16:00 UTC - Meeting Minutes

2018-04-12 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 12 Apr 2018, at 08:32, George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > >> On Apr 12, 2018, at 2:18 AM, Chao Gao <chao@intel.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 05:10:40PM +, Lars Kurth wrote: >>> ## Longer Term

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 0/9] Provide support matrix generator

2018-04-11 Thread Lars Kurth
tml xenbits:public_html/2018/support-matrix-example-v1/ Acked-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Ian, this looks good. Only a small comment: for table entries such as x86/PCI Device Passthrough x86 PV Supported, with caveats Supported, with caveats x86 HVM

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH governance.git] Make Security Policy Doc ready to become a CNA

2018-04-10 Thread Lars Kurth
On 10/04/2018, 09:12, "Juergen Gross" <jgr...@suse.com> wrote: On 09/04/18 17:02, Lars Kurth wrote: > Note: this time with html disabled > > To become a CNA, we need to more clearly specifiy the scope of > security support. This change upd

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH governance.git] Make Security Policy Doc ready to become a CNA

2018-04-09 Thread Lars Kurth
Note: this time with html disabled To become a CNA, we need to more clearly specifiy the scope of security support. This change updates the document and points to SUPPORT.md and pages generated from SUPPORT.md   Also fixed a typo in the following paragraph.   Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars

[Xen-devel] [PATCH governance.git] Make Security Policy Doc ready to become a CNA

2018-04-09 Thread Lars Kurth
To become a CNA, we need to more clearly specifiy the scope of security support. This change updates the document and points to SUPPORT.md and pages generated from SUPPORT.md Also fixed a typo in the following paragraph. Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- se

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen and safety certification, Minutes of the meeting on Apr 4th

2018-04-06 Thread Lars Kurth
Jarvis, thanks for the valuable input. On 06/04/2018, 19:01, "Jarvis Roach" wrote: > > Here my understanding is that we need a certification partner like TÜV, > MIRA or a company like Dornerworks who already have experience with > Xen. By working

Re: [Xen-devel] Make coverity results public

2018-04-06 Thread Lars Kurth
g requests from accounts who never engaged with the project (aka never posted to a mailing list) or which look like spam accounts. On 04/04/2018, 16:50, "Wei Liu" <wei.l...@citrix.com> wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 03:47:44PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: > > On 2

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen and safety certification, Minutes of the meeting on Apr 4th

2018-04-06 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, adding a few more people who are/may be interested in safety certification, including committers (because item 1 would have an impact). Specifically: Rich Persaud, Paul Luperto, Jonathan Daugherty and Denys Balatsko. There are a few loose ends and updates from other/similar related

[Xen-devel] Reminder: 2018 Xen Project Developer and Design Summit: CfP closes Friday April 13

2018-04-06 Thread Lars Kurth
Dear community members, this is a quick reminder that the CfP for the Developer Summit closes in a week. I may be able to give a few days extension, but would need to know upfront. More information is available at https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-03/msg01722.html

Re: [Xen-devel] X86 Community Call - Wed Apr 11, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Call for Agenda Items

2018-04-05 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 28 Mar 2018, at 16:40, George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com> wrote: > > On 03/22/2018 10:22 AM, Lars Kurth wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> please find attached >> a) Meeting details (just a link with timezones) – the meeting invite will >> foll

Re: [Xen-devel] Make coverity results public

2018-04-04 Thread Lars Kurth
On 28/03/2018, 19:23, "George Dunlap" wrote: > > Lars, if you don't object I'm going to open up the results. And I will > leave the task to update the contribution guide webpage to you. :-) I'd wait at least until EOD Thursday. :-) Sure. I

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen development link

2018-04-04 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi Praveen, > On 4 Apr 2018, at 12:42, Praveen Kumar wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Roger Pau Monné > wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 02:40:45PM +0530, Praveen Kumar wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at

[Xen-devel] Xen 4.7.5 and 4.9.2 released

2018-04-04 Thread Lars Kurth
All, I am pleased to announce the releases of Xen 4.7.5 and Xen 4.9.2. These are available immediately from their git repositories and Xen Project download pages (where a list of changes can also be found). We recommend all users of the 4.7 and 4.9 stable series to update to these latest point

Re: [Xen-devel] preparations for 4.9.2 and 4.7.5

2018-04-04 Thread Lars Kurth
Alright, these are now at * https://xenproject.org/downloads/xen-archives/xen-project-47-series/xen-475.html * https://xenproject.org/downloads/xen-archives/xen-project-49-series/xen-492.html Blog post and mails will follow shortly (as Jan is OO today) Regards Lars On 04/04/2018, 11:37, "

Re: [Xen-devel] preparations for 4.9.2 and 4.7.5

2018-04-04 Thread Lars Kurth
Folks, I have not created the webpages for these. The script I am using to generate these depends on a script in xsa.git, which fails at the moment due to a missing new package dependency that I can't resolve as I don't have root access Lars On 04/04/2018, 10:59, "Julien Grall"

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] Make Security Policy Doc ready to become a CNA

2018-04-04 Thread Lars Kurth
Ian, can we agree on a final URL for the generated docs (the ones generated from SUPPORT.md). That would enable me to send out a new series Lars From: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at 09:18 To: George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com> Cc

Re: [Xen-devel] X86 Community Call - Wed Apr 11, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Call for Agenda Items

2018-03-22 Thread Lars Kurth
Removing the non-working Intel alias @John: once this alias actually works, let me know. The start of the thread is at https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-03/threads.html#02672 @All: To summarize in terms of higher level discussions: * Discuss PCI emulation and our future

[Xen-devel] X86 Community Call - Wed Apr 11, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Call for Agenda Items

2018-03-22 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, please find attached a) Meeting details (just a link with timezones) – the meeting invite will follow when we have an agenda Bridge details – will be sent with the meeting invite I am thinking of using GotoMeeting, but want to try this with a Linux only user before I commit c)

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] Make Security Policy Doc ready to become a CNA

2018-03-21 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 20 Mar 2018, at 17:38, George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com> wrote: > > On 03/19/2018 04:37 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: >> And this time with patch: note to myself - never try sendmail with --compose >> again (-; >> >> This patch contains a propos

[Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] Make Security Policy Doc ready to become a CNA

2018-03-19 Thread Lars Kurth
specifiy the scope of security support. This change updates the document and points to SUPPORT.md and pages generated from SUPPORT.md Expected changes: - Resend once the URL that is currently open has been agreed with Ian Jackson Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- se

[Xen-devel] [RFC Patch] Make Security Policy Doc ready to become a CNA

2018-03-19 Thread Lars Kurth
This contains a proposal to change https://xenproject.org/security-policy.html such that it points to SUPPORT.md. Having scope and process information is necessary to become a CNA. This is the last piece, before formally asking to become a CNA. To make the review of this easier, I based it on

Re: [Xen-devel] X86 Community Call: Wed March 14, 15:00 - 16:00 UTC - Minutes

2018-03-15 Thread Lars Kurth
On 15/03/2018, 15:04, "Juergen Gross" <jgr...@suse.com> wrote: On 15/03/18 14:48, George Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> wrote: >> ## Meeting format >> >> Andy: no suggesti

Re: [Xen-devel] X86 Community Call: Wed March 14, 15:00 - 16:00 UTC - Final Agenda

2018-03-13 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, Please find attached the agenda We don’t have any design and problem related items this meeting. This means that we will only cover discussions specific to some series, some may contain design related discussion though. Note that the meeting will probably not be very interesting for

Re: [Xen-devel] X86 Community Call: Wed March 14, 15:00 - 16:00 UTC

2018-03-12 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, this is my first go at the agenda. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n7HAu5IbuRt5aJbQKt5X470kv2Ubvk5P2mG0vp6rKfU/edit?usp=sharing and attached PDF Text without tables below As I didn't get a priority order, nor design stuff, but a few series to discuss I sorted by what looked

Re: [Xen-devel] osstest planned outage consultation

2018-03-12 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 12 Mar 2018, at 11:12, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 9 Mar 2018, at 17:02, Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: >> >> Ian Jackson writes ("Re: osstest planned outage consultation"): >>> It

Re: [Xen-devel] osstest planned outage consultation

2018-03-12 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 9 Mar 2018, at 17:02, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Ian Jackson writes ("Re: osstest planned outage consultation"): >> It turns out that another key member of staff is away then. We will >> have to do this some time in late April. Some time the [week] of the >>

Re: [Xen-devel] patchbot emails about commits to xen.git#staging

2018-03-09 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, I didn't even know we had that list and have also not advertised it on the website for this reason. However, we also have https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-changelog Wouldn't it make sense to send commits to there (with an appropriate prefix). It already has commits to

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Move missing items from docs/misc/qemu-xen-security to SUPPORT.md

2018-03-09 Thread Lars Kurth
On 09/03/2018, 11:38, "George Dunlap" <george.dun...@citrix.com> wrote: On 03/09/2018 10:34 AM, Lars Kurth wrote: > > On 09/03/2018, 11:32, "George Dunlap" <george.dun...@citrix.com> wrote: > > On 03/08/2018 06:07 PM, Lar

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Move missing items from docs/misc/qemu-xen-security to SUPPORT.md

2018-03-09 Thread Lars Kurth
On 09/03/2018, 11:31, "Julien Grall" <julien.gr...@arm.com> wrote: Hi Lars, On 08/03/18 17:37, Lars Kurth wrote: > x86/Emulated platform devices (QEMU): > - Aded PCI host bridge (as in xen.git:docs/misc/qemu-xen-security) > New: x86/Emula

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Move missing items from docs/misc/qemu-xen-security to SUPPORT.md

2018-03-09 Thread Lars Kurth
On 09/03/2018, 11:32, "George Dunlap" <george.dun...@citrix.com> wrote: On 03/08/2018 06:07 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: > > On 08/03/2018, 18:44, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: > > Lars Kurth writes ("[P

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Move missing items from docs/misc/qemu-xen-security to SUPPORT.md

2018-03-09 Thread Lars Kurth
On 09/03/2018, 11:08, "Jan Beulich" wrote: >>> On 08.03.18 at 19:07, wrote: > @Jan: this should be backported to 4.10 also I'll try to remember that, but let's first get it into master (and as you've likely seen, I'm not

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Move missing items from docs/misc/qemu-xen-security to SUPPORT.md

2018-03-09 Thread Lars Kurth
On 09/03/2018, 11:07, "Jan Beulich" wrote: >>> On 08.03.18 at 18:37, wrote: > --- a/SUPPORT.md > +++ b/SUPPORT.md > @@ -620,6 +620,7 @@ Note that other devices are available but not security supported. > > ### x86/Emulated

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Move missing items from docs/misc/qemu-xen-security to SUPPORT.md

2018-03-08 Thread Lars Kurth
On 08/03/2018, 18:44, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("[PATCH] Move missing items from docs/misc/qemu-xen-security to SUPPORT.md"): > x86/Emulated platform devices (QEMU): > - Aded PCI host bridge (as in xen

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Move missing items from docs/misc/qemu-xen-security to SUPPORT.md

2018-03-08 Thread Lars Kurth
(as in xen.git:docs/misc/qemu-xen-security) x86/Emulated input (QEMU): - Added xenfb keyboard/mouse (as in xen.git:docs/misc/qemu-xen-security) Delete xen.git:docs/misc/qemu-xen-security as now not needed Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- SUPPORT.md

Re: [Xen-devel] X86 Community Call: Wed March 14, 15:00 - 16:00 UTC

2018-03-07 Thread Lars Kurth
On 07/03/2018, 17:02, "George Dunlap" wrote: >> * Title of series >> >> * Link to series (e.g. on https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel, >> markmail, …) >> >> * Number of outstanding ACKs (and by whom), number of ACKs >

[Xen-devel] X86 Community Call: Wed March 14, 15:00 - 16:00 UTC

2018-03-07 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, please find attached a) Meeting details (attached meeting invite) b) Bridge details c) Call for agenda items I will collate input and send out a complete agenda, Monday the 12th. Depending on volume of agenda requests, I may have to limit agenda items per person/vendor. Please be

Re: [Xen-devel] Setting up a Xen x86 community call

2018-03-07 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, thanks for the feedback. It seems to me that the following times satisfy all requirements. Those with minor issues are on the TO list and called out below. Winter == 15:00 - 16:00 UTC 07:00 - 08:00 Pacific 09:00 - 10:00 Austin 10:00 - 11:00 New York 15:00 - 16:00 London 16:00 -

Re: [Xen-devel] Save the date: Xen Project Developer Summit, Nanjing, China, June 20-22 (Wednesday - Friday)

2018-03-07 Thread Lars Kurth
specialist later today to make sure there are no large red flags: hopefully there aren't any which means we will be able to offically announce the event, publish the website, etc. this week. Best Regards Lars > On 5 Feb 2018, at 15:52, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> wrote: > >

[Xen-devel] Setting up a Xen x86 community call

2018-03-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, (sorry for the extensive distribution list - I went through MAINTAINERS and people who may have an interest) I would like to start organizing a recurring x86 community call to discuss and sync-up on upcoming features for Xen on x86. This call would mirror and follow a similar

Re: [Xen-devel] [Minios-devel] Excited for Xen Project in Outreachy

2018-02-26 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi Kanika, > On 24 Feb 2018, at 20:40, KANIKA SAINI wrote: > > Thank you, Lars. > The links you have provided have managed to make things clearer to me now. > > I understand how a flag in the makefile can be changed by passing a parameter > to the make command in the

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen-Project apply | Outreachy (interest in 1. High-level Language Support with Unikraft / 2. Xen on ARM: create multiple guests from device tree)

2018-02-16 Thread Lars Kurth
t. Feel free to ask any questions! Regards Lars From: Rupal Jain <rupal15...@iiitd.ac.in> Date: Friday, 16 February 2018 at 10:24 To: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Subject: Xen-Project apply | Outreachy Hi, Lars. I am Rupal Jain, a 3-rd year undergrad majoring in Comput

Re: [Xen-devel] Excited for Xen Project in Outreachy

2018-02-14 Thread Lars Kurth
From: KANIKA SAINI <kanika16...@iiitd.ac.in> Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 17:25 To: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Subject: Excited for Xen Project in Outreachy Greetings, Lars. I'm Kanika Saini and I'm super excited to begin contributing to Xen! I seek guidance in choosing the s

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen ARM community call Tuesday 13th February 5PM UTC

2018-02-06 Thread Lars Kurth
a...@epam.com> wrote: Hi Lars As we do not have Jira access, it would be better to do it on Wiki or "something else". -- Artem On 06.02.18 12:53, Lars Kurth wrote: > Adding Rich > >> I think it would be hugely beneficial if t

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen ARM community call Tuesday 13th February 5PM UTC

2018-02-06 Thread Lars Kurth
Adding Rich > I think it would be hugely beneficial if there could be an open > repository of information that describes in clear terms what the > specific engineering items are which are needed to make Xen viable for > assessment towards safety certification. Very good idea If

[Xen-devel] Changes to Outreachy program : need URGENT input from mentors (was Re: Preparing for GSoC and Outreachy )

2018-01-30 Thread Lars Kurth
ease raise your hand now by replying to this thread or contacting me privately and I will help Best Regards Lars > On 8 Jan 2018, at 15:19, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > it's this time of the year again to prepare for GSoC/Outreachy! The

Re: [Xen-devel] Preparing for GSoC and Outreachy : getting Outreach Program Projects into good shape

2018-01-23 Thread Lars Kurth
accepted, we will have to have another go at the project list Best Regards Lars > On 8 Jan 2018, at 15:19, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > it's this time of the year again to prepare for GSoC/Outreachy! The > application deadline for orgs is

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/5] xen/arm: Introduce enable callback to enable a capabilities on each online CPU

2018-01-17 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi Julien, > On 17 Jan 2018, at 12:31, Julien Grall wrote: > > If you took the code from Linux, you need to add the original Signed-off-by from the Linux commit. Aside from that: >>> >>> There are multiple commits touching this function. So I followed

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/5] xen/arm: Introduce enable callback to enable a capabilities on each online CPU

2018-01-17 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 17 Jan 2018, at 10:31, Julien Grall wrote: > > Hi Stefano, > > On 16/01/18 23:55, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Julien Grall wrote: >>> Once Xen knows what features/workarounds present on the platform, it >>> might be necessary to configure

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-11 Thread Lars Kurth
t;>> On Sun, 7 Jan 2018, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:05:56PM +, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>>>> On 05/01/18 18:16, Rich Persaud wrote: >>>>>>> On Jan 5, 2018, at 06:35, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com &g

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-11 Thread Lars Kurth
And this time with attachment Matrix.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document On 11 Jan 2018, at 09:15, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> wrote:I am wondering whether something like the attached table would make understanding the FAQ easier. Page 1 is clearly what is Xen specific and we defi

Re: [Xen-devel] Radical proposal v2: Publish Amazon's verison now, Citrix's version soon

2018-01-10 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 10 Jan 2018, at 13:51, Juergen Gross wrote: > > On 10/01/18 14:34, George Dunlap wrote: >> * Executive summary >> [snip] >> >> Regardless of what we think of step 2, I think we should take step 1 >> immediately. >> >> Let me know what you think. Thank you for putting

Re: [Xen-devel] Radical proposal: ship not-fully-tidied shim as 4.10.1

2018-01-08 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 8 Jan 2018, at 17:45, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > But this is not a usual situation. This time, we don't have the time > to wait. > > Opinions ? > > Ian. +1 ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org

[Xen-devel] Preparing for GSoC and Outreachy : getting Outreach Program Projects into good shape

2018-01-08 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi All, it's this time of the year again to prepare for GSoC/Outreachy! The application deadline for orgs is January 23 - February 11: ideally we will have a good updated lists of projects by then as Google will look at the quality of the project list. I will also need co-org admins: @Mindy

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-08 Thread Lars Kurth
Hans, I updated the FAQ on the blog. Thank you for your input. Lars > On 5 Jan 2018, at 15:55, Hans van Kranenburg <h...@knorrie.org> wrote: > > On 01/05/2018 12:35 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: >> Hi all, this is a repost of >> https://blog.xenproject.org/2018/01/04/xen-

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-08 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 7 Jan 2018, at 17:11, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > Since PVH does not yet support PCI passthrough, are there other recommended SP3 mitigations for 64-bit PV driver domains? >>> Lock them down? Device driver domains, even if not fully trusted, are >>>

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-05 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 5 Jan 2018, at 15:55, Hans van Kranenburg <h...@knorrie.org> wrote: > > On 01/05/2018 12:35 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: >> Hi all, this is a repost of >> https://blog.xenproject.org/2018/01/04/xen-project-spectremeltdown-faq/ >> <https://blog.xenproject.org/20

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-05 Thread Lars Kurth
Julien, > On 5 Jan 2018, at 14:40, Julien Grall wrote: > > (apologies for the formatting) > > Hi Lars, > > Thank you for putting together an FAQ. > > Few comments below around Arm. > > Systems running Xen, like all operating systems and hypervisors, are >

[Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-05 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, this is a repost of https://blog.xenproject.org/2018/01/04/xen-project-spectremeltdown-faq/ for xen-users/xen-devel. If you have questions, please reply to this thread and we will try and improve the FAQ based on questions. Regards Lars Google’s Project Zero announced several

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen release cycle revisited

2018-01-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi Juergen: thank you for raising this. As far as I can tell, the switch to the 6-monthly release model has had some consequences, some of which were predicted, others were not. So, I think we should probably review the decision. Key concerns raised: • Too much work in actively maintaining 4

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