From d0153ca35d344d9b640dc305031b0703ba3f30f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alok Kataria Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:25:24 -0700 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Chris Wright 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 11 ++++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86') 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; -- cgit v1.2.3