George Dunlap: > Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backport > the PVH mode from 4.10 to 4.9 and 4.8. This will first allow people > able to run PVH kernels to switch their PV guests directly to PVH > guests; and second, eventually enable the backport of patches which > will enable transparent changing of PV guests into PVH guests. > > All of the hypervisor support seems to have existed already in 4.8, so > the only backports involve toolstack patches. > > I've put up two trees for a first-cut backport of the PVH > functionality, to 4.9 and 4.8 here: > > git://xenbits.xen.org/people/gdunlap/xen.git > > Branches out/pvh-backport/4.8/v1 and out/pvh-backport/4.9/v1 > > Below are the patches backported from 4.10 to 4.9 (23 patches total): [...]
So future 4.8 releases will include the backports, right? Asking because the AFAICS the 4.8.3-pre-shim-comet branch include them but staging-4.8 does not. Simon
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