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Message-ID: <20090317093919.GD6477@elte.hu> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:39:19 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, akataria@...are.com Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> 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 <jaswinderrajput@...il.com> > --- > 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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