Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

Greg KH
2009-09-19T22:47:57Z

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:17:08PM -0700, Alok Kataria wrote:
> Given this new development, I wanted to discuss how should we go about
> retiring the VMI code from mainline Linux, i.e. the vmi_32.c and
> vmiclock_32.c bits.
>
> One of the options that I am contemplating is to drop the code from the
> tip tree in this release cycle, and given that this should be a low risk
> change we can remove it from Linus's tree later in the merge cycle.

That sounds good to me, how intrusive are the patches to do this? Is it
going to be tricky to get everything merged properly in -tip for it?

thanks,

greg k-h