>>> On 04.09.15 at 13:52, <wei.l...@citrix.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 01:44:24AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 03.09.15 at 18:25, <wei.l...@citrix.com> wrote: >> > Xen tree is going to branch at 4.6 RC3. I don't want to branch when >> > master != staging, so please avoid committing new patches to staging now >> > to let master catch up with staging. Another announcement will be made >> > when the moratorium is lifted. >> >> Hmm, I think you will want to wait for a fix for the ARM64 regression >> Julien reported before cutting RC3. >> > > That was reported after I made this announcement. > > Judging from the conversation in that thread we already have an idea > what was broken. Is the fix going to be complex?
You may have seen the tentative patch meanwhile - it's a one liner. > I think we can make the decision whether to wait for it based on it's > complexity. > > If we're sure it's not going to be too invasive, it doesn't matter if > it's committed before or after branching because the cost of applying > that to two trees would be minimum. Another thing I consider is that we > want OSSTest to have a push over the weekend. With both considerations > in mind, it would be OK if a simple patch gets committed today. My concern is not about the need for backporting, but about the usefulness (on ARM64) of an RC3 without that fix. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel