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authorAlok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>2009-09-29 13:25:24 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-08 16:27:55 -0400
commitd0153ca35d344d9b640dc305031b0703ba3f30f0 (patch)
tree969edf8a9d389abf5cded1af6dcf9334ddd235cf /arch
parentf579bbcd9bb8b688df03191b92c56ab8af4d6322 (diff)
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/Kconfig11
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c2
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
491source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 491source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
492 492
493config VMI 493config VMI
494 bool "VMI Guest support" 494 bool "VMI Guest support (DEPRECATED)"
495 select PARAVIRT 495 select PARAVIRT
496 depends on X86_32 496 depends on X86_32
497 ---help--- 497 ---help---
@@ -500,6 +500,15 @@ config VMI
500 at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 500 at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
501 provided by the hypervisor. 501 provided by the hypervisor.
502 502
503 As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement
504 of this feature from VMware's products. Please see
505 feature-removal-schedule.txt for details. If you are
506 planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot
507 live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product,
508 which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to
509 seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this
510 disabled.
511
503config KVM_CLOCK 512config KVM_CLOCK
504 bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 513 bool "KVM paravirtualized clock"
505 select PARAVIRT 514 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)
648 648
649 pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1; 649 pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1;
650 pv_info.kernel_rpl = kernel_cs & SEGMENT_RPL_MASK; 650 pv_info.kernel_rpl = kernel_cs & SEGMENT_RPL_MASK;
651 pv_info.name = "vmi"; 651 pv_info.name = "vmi [deprecated]";
652 652
653 pv_init_ops.patch = vmi_patch; 653 pv_init_ops.patch = vmi_patch;
654 654