[patch] paravirt: clarify VMI description

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Mar 05 2007 - 07:22:38 EST


Subject: [patch] paravirt: clarify VMI description
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

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 it 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@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/i386/Kconfig | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -227,8 +227,9 @@ 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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