From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933296AbXCEMWY (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 07:22:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933383AbXCEMWX (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 07:22:23 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:39833 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933296AbXCEMWX (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 07:22:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:13:46 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zachary Amsden , Alan Cox Subject: [patch] paravirt: clarify VMI description Message-ID: <20070305121346.GA14422@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.1.7 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch] paravirt: clarify VMI description From: Ingo Molnar clarify the description of the CONFIG_VMI option: describe the reality that VMI is a VMWare-only interface for now. Once that changes and another hypervisor adopts the VMI ABI we can change the text. As it can be seen from the Xen paravirtualization patches submitted to lkml the Xen project has chosen its own, non-VMI interface between Xen and the para-Linux - so remove Xen from the description. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/i386/Kconfig | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -227,8 +227,9 @@ config VMI depends on PARAVIRT default y help - VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to multiple hypervisors - include VMware ESX server and Xen by connecting to a ROM module + VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server + (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not + at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module provided by the hypervisor. config ACPI_SRAT