Release Plans

[Alexandre ghiti]

Hi Anup, Bin,

On 10/13/21 9:48 AM, Bin Meng wrote:
> Hi Anup,
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 2:03 PM Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org> wrote:
>> Hi Jessica,
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:56 AM Jessica Clarke <jrtc27 at jrtc27.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> The latest OpenSBI release is 0.9 from January. With SBI 0.3(.1) on the
>>> way and Unmatched support added since then, are there plans for a new
>>> release any time soon? We’d like to have a newer version in the FreeBSD
>>> ports tree so we can more easily provide updated firmware to Unmatched
>>> users.
>> Next release will be OpenSBI v1.0 (having SBI v0.3 implementation) and
>> we can target this sometime in Nov 2021.
> If possible can we release OpenSBI v1.0 before QEMU 6.2.0 soft freeze
> (Nov 02) or hard freeze (Nov 09) so that it can be integrated into
> QEMU 6.2.0.
>
>> We wanted to make SBI v0.3 fully stable for existing boards (particularly
>> SiFive unmatched) before releasing OpenSBI hence the delay. We are
>> almost there with few pending changes for SBI PMU and reset driver
>> improvements.
>>
>> Post OpenSBI v1.0 release, we want to have more predictable release
>> cycles (which we will document as well). I would like to have a release
>> cycle which is realistic and agreed by most people over here.
> Agree.
>
>> Thoughts or Suggestions ??
> I suggest we align this with QEMU release cadence for easier
> integration with QEMU. +Alistair Francis


I think lots of bigger projects depend on openSBI (ex: QEMU 4-month,
Ubuntu 6-month, Fedora 6-month) and to accommodate them all, taking a
rather quick release cycle could be interesting: 2-3 months :)

Alex


>
> Regards,
> Bin
>
> Regards,
> Bin
>