Re: [Xen-devel] Status of comet-4.10 branch

2018-06-21 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 19.06.18 at 15:33, wrote: > Michael Young writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Status of comet-4.10 branch"): >> +1 to an update on the status of extra branches for XSA-254. > > I'm drafting this update now. I think that the status is: > > 4.10.0-s

Re: [Xen-devel] Status of comet-4.10 branch

2018-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Young writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Status of comet-4.10 branch"): > +1 to an update on the status of extra branches for XSA-254. I'm drafting this update now. I think that the status is: 4.10.0-shim-comet: Merged into and superseded by staging-4.10. "Testing st

Re: [Xen-devel] Status of comet-4.10 branch

2018-06-16 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Ian Jackson 06/15/18 6:26 PM >>> >The right approach to this depends on whether the functionality in the >comet and shim branches is now in released Xen branches. Should comet >4.10 be retired in favour of stable-4.10 or RELEASE-4.10.1 ? It is my understanding that with the merging of the sh

Re: [Xen-devel] Status of comet-4.10 branch

2018-06-15 Thread Michael Young
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: In XSA-254, we advertised siome special new branches, comet and vixen, which were intended to be used as the shim in the PV-in-HVM shim approaches to XSA-254 mitigation. With my Debian maintainer hat on, I chose to do that. (I don't know, of course, what

[Xen-devel] Status of comet-4.10 branch

2018-06-15 Thread Ian Jackson
In XSA-254, we advertised siome special new branches, comet and vixen, which were intended to be used as the shim in the PV-in-HVM shim approaches to XSA-254 mitigation. With my Debian maintainer hat on, I chose to do that. (I don't know, of course, what proportion of Debian users are using shim