Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757589AbZFCIKe (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 04:10:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757536AbZFCIKF (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 04:10:05 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46407 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757516AbZFCIKB (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 04:10:01 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christian Tramnitz Subject: Re: Merge Xen (the hypervisor) into Linux Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:07:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4A262F4B.8010404@tramnitz.com> References: <162f4c90-6431-4a2a-b337-6d7451d7b11e@default> <20090528001350.GD26820@elte.hu> <4A1F302E.8030501@goop.org> <20090528.210559.137121893.davem@davemloft.net> <4A1FCE8E.2060604@eu.citrix.com> <20090602224051.GB32428@goodmis.org> <20090602232843.GA6577@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.210.217.68 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <20090602232843.GA6577@elte.hu> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, xen-users@lists.xensource.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 15 Ingo Molnar wrote: > A lot of Xen legacies could be dropped: the crazy ring1 hack on > 32-bit, the various wide interfaces to make pure-software > virtualization limp along. All major CPUs shipped with hardware > virtualization support in the past 2-3 years, so the availability of > VMX and SVM can be taken for granted for such a project. What a great idea, and while we're doing this let's also drop support for legacy stuff like PATA and i8042 in mainline. Noone will need it anyway because their successors are on the market for years... let's just take it for granted that everyone is using SATA and USB nowadays! Best regards, Christian -- 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/