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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-03-05 13:13:46 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-05 08:23:51 -0800
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parent3f1a73b6dd52f1f279c05263ee79ca14f45d9d25 (diff)
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[PATCH] paravirt: clarify VMI description
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 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 <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/Kconfig5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index 0659038..cfc5d49 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -223,8 +223,9 @@ 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
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