Commit e9417fb3 authored Mar 05, 2007 by Ingo Molnar Committed by Linus Torvalds Mar 05, 2007

[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>

parent 3f1a73b6

arch/i386/Kconfig

+3 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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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