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Message-Id: <1237283318.7907.9.camel@ht.satnam>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:18:38 +0530
From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, akataria@...are.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:39 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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.
>
Can we use common hypervisor for Xen, lguest, vmware, etc.
And Xen, lguest, vmware will be the sub-options.
--
JSR
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