Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762627AbZCQJth (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:49:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754078AbZCQJt0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:49:26 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:52321 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753829AbZCQJtZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:49:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , x86 maintainers , LKML , akataria@vmware.com In-Reply-To: <20090317093919.GD6477@elte.hu> References: <1237281581.7907.2.camel@ht.satnam> <20090317093919.GD6477@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:18:38 +0530 Message-Id: <1237283318.7907.9.camel@ht.satnam> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1521 Lines: 40 On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:39 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * 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. > Can we use common hypervisor for Xen, lguest, vmware, etc. And Xen, lguest, vmware will be the sub-options. -- JSR -- 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/