Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762980AbZCQJje (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:39:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755407AbZCQJjZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:39:25 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:57864 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752491AbZCQJjZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:39:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:39:19 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput , "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: x86 maintainers , LKML , akataria@vmware.com Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor Message-ID: <20090317093919.GD6477@elte.hu> References: <1237281581.7907.2.camel@ht.satnam> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1237281581.7907.2.camel@ht.satnam> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1302 Lines: 34 * Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > Subject: [PATCH] x86: move vmware to hypervisor > > Impact: cleanup > > vmware is only required by hypervisor and having only two functions > by moving these two functions to hypervisor we get rid of 2 vmware files > > Added support for CONFIG_X86_HYPERVISOR > > Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput > --- > arch/x86/Kconfig | 12 ++++ > arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 34 ++++++++++- > arch/x86/include/asm/vmware.h | 27 --------- > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile | 2 +- > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++------- > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 112 ------------------------------------- > 6 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 163 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/vmware.h > delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c I dont really like this one. KVM is a hypervisor too, and so is Xen and lguest. VMware is one of the many types of a hypervisors. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/