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* x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel supportAlok Kataria2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this feature from the hypervisor. Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels still work fine on VMware's platform. Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* x86 Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.28-rc8Zachary Amsden2008-12-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | VMI initialiation can relocate the fixmap, causing early_ioremap to malfunction if it is initialized before the relocation. To fix this, VMI activation is split into two phases; the detection, which must happen before setting up ioremap, and the activation, which must happen after parsing early boot parameters. This fixes a crash on boot when VMI is enabled under VMware. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86, um: ... and asm-x86 moveAl Viro2008-10-23
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>