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authorAlok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>2009-09-29 10:25:24 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-08 22:27:55 +0200
commitd0153ca35d344d9b640dc305031b0703ba3f30f0 (patch)
tree969edf8a9d389abf5cded1af6dcf9334ddd235cf /arch/x86
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/x86')
-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 c876bace8fd..07e01149e3b 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 31e6f6cfe53..d430e4c3019 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;