From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Removing VMI kernel support from 2.6.37
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:39:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C7306AF.4030202@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
On 08/23/2010 02:49 PM, Alok Kataria wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Removal of VMI(VMware's para-virtualization technique) is scheduled for
> 2.6.37, I was wondering what would be the right time frame for
> submitting a patch which does that. Does the x86-tip tree have any next
> branch where we can park this patch ?
>
> Below is the patch for your reference which just removes VMI specific
> bits, applies on top of x86-tip.
>
> There is also an opportunity to remove the alloc_pmd_clone hook from
> paravirt side of the things. This interface is only used for VMI, will
> send a follow-on patch later on to do that though.
>
That would be nice. In the meantime I have queued up your patch.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-23 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-23 21:49 Removing VMI kernel support from 2.6.37 Alok Kataria
2010-08-23 23:10 ` [tip:x86/vmware] x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel support tip-bot for Alok Kataria
2010-08-23 23:39 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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