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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Removing VMI kernel support from 2.6.37
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:39:27 -0700
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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