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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [xen vMCE RFC V0.2] xen vMCE design
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
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On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 10:55 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 28.06.12 at 11:40, "Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@intel.com> wrote:
> > So I would like to push new vMCE as quickly as possible. What's the timeline 
> > of vMCE developing that xen 4.2 could accept?
> 
> Weeks ago, really. See http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-06/msg01619.html
> and follow-ups - we'd really only consider getting the save/restore
> interface into forward compatible shape as acceptable.

Yes it really is far to late to considering entire new features at this
stage.

Ian.

> 
> > I wonder if we could make major 
> > components of vMCE done before xen 4.2 timeline, and leave the surrounding 
> > features and the corner cases done later?
> 
> Unfortunately it's likely going to be even less. However, if split
> that way, chances are things could go into e.g. 4.2.1.
> 
> Jan
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