From: Ingo Molnar Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:13:46 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [PATCH] paravirt: clarify VMI description X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc3~57 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e9417fb324f355e8e0b5d78d3b5dc7b90693fdfb;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] paravirt: clarify VMI description 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 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig index 0659038866..cfc5d496ff 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -223,8 +223,9 @@ 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