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| author | Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> | 2009-09-29 10:25:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-10-08 22:27:55 +0200 |
| commit | d0153ca35d344d9b640dc305031b0703ba3f30f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 969edf8a9d389abf5cded1af6dcf9334ddd235cf /arch | |
| parent | f579bbcd9bb8b688df03191b92c56ab8af4d6322 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d0153ca35d344d9b640dc305031b0703ba3f30f0.tar.bz2 | |
x86, vmi: Mark VMI deprecated and schedule it for removal
Add text in feature-removal.txt indicating that VMI will be removed in
the 2.6.37 timeframe.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
LKML-Reference: <1254193238.13456.48.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
[ removed a bogus Kconfig change, marked (DEPRECATED) in Kconfig ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index c876bace8fdc..07e01149e3bf 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ if PARAVIRT_GUEST source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" config VMI - bool "VMI Guest support" + bool "VMI Guest support (DEPRECATED)" select PARAVIRT depends on X86_32 ---help--- @@ -500,6 +500,15 @@ config VMI at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module provided by the hypervisor. + As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement + of this feature from VMware's products. Please see + feature-removal-schedule.txt for details. If you are + planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot + live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product, + which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to + seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this + disabled. + config KVM_CLOCK bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" select PARAVIRT diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c index 31e6f6cfe53e..d430e4c30193 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ static inline int __init activate_vmi(void) pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1; pv_info.kernel_rpl = kernel_cs & SEGMENT_RPL_MASK; - pv_info.name = "vmi"; + pv_info.name = "vmi [deprecated]"; pv_init_ops.patch = vmi_patch; |