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Monthly Call Minutes
PCI device reset/FLR - OXT-1217
- A variation of this patch belongs in upstream Xen & Linux. See Jira ticket for link to upstream Xen thread. If we can maintain a list of PCI devices (e.g. lspci -v output for GPU, NIC) which require this patch, it will help with OpenXT and upstream testing.
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- Rich Persaud volunteered to be release manager for 8.0.0, will request technical assistance from others as needed.
- 8.0 will target Intel Ice Lake hardware (2018/2019) and fundamental architectural changes to enable extensible OpenXT base platform
- Notes from feature discussion
- UEFI (host and guest), Secure Boot for Windows 10
- Kconfig - define minimal Xen config early in 8.0 dev cycle, so that testing & feature development are done on the minimized base
- USB3 - no high-priority devices currently need USB3, USB-C ports are compatible
- USB driver domain - of interest, will be investigated, not yet committed within 8.0 timeframe, Qubes has an implementation
- HVM and SR-IOV driver domains - security benefits, see upstream Xen mailing list discussion (SUPPORT.md) about x86 PCI passthrough security
- libvirt - needs scoping, starting point would be for Chris Rogers to create a wiki page which documents OpenXT Haskell toolstack functions that would need to be migrated to another toolstack, whether libvirt or something else. There will always be some OpenXT-specific toolstack functions that are not provided by an existing toolstack like libvirt. This is a big task, we need to create small prototypes to identity candidates for replacing subsets of Haskell code.
- Hyper-V guest enlightenments - of interest, is available in Xen 4.9, can be an optional build configuration for OpenXT 8.0
- Display manager & input server - no objection to the community introducing a new, optional, open-source display/input stack
- Upstream OE - some 8.0 OpenXT features may appear first in upstream OpenEmbedded meta-virtualization (master), then get pulled into OpenXT
- OE pyro uprev - work underway (Eric), making Haskell toolchain fixes
- blktap3 - work underway, see OXT-1221 (Mahantesh)
- nested virt (Hyper-V) - targeted for 8.0 release, no backport to stable-5