Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752162AbZIVXAo (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:00:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751678AbZIVXAn (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:00:43 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54751 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751387AbZIVXAn (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:00:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4AB956AC.9050700@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:58:52 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: akataria@vmware.com CC: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. References: <1253233028.19731.63.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090919224430.GB9567@kroah.com> <1253419185.3253.21.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090920074247.GA5733@elte.hu> <1253647845.10565.20.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <4AB9414C.6060805@zytor.com> <1253656476.10565.28.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <1253656476.10565.28.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 22 Alok Kataria wrote: > > What do you suggest would be the right time ? > > Please note that the next major release of VMware's product will not > have this supported. Also that, most of our customers will actually be > running some distro's enterprise release, rather than running the > cutting edge kernel. So IMO there is still a window of around 1-1.5 > years, until a customer actually sees a kernel which has dropped VMI > support. > I would say it might make sense pulling it out around the end of 2010, which would be about 6 kernel releases from now -- 2.6.37. -hpa -- 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/