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Date:	Wed, 15 May 2013 17:34:10 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:	Victor Miasnikov <vvm@....by>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	"olaf@...fle.de" <olaf@...fle.de>,
	"\"Andy Whitcroft\"" <apw@...onical.com>,
	"jasowang@...hat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"JBeulich@...e.com" <JBeulich@...e.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Subject: RE: CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST=y   {-- replace --
 CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST=y {= { # CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST is not set } Re:
 3.10-rc1 Fw: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Make Linux guest support optional

> Tony, what's your take on this - CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST is
> present in ia64 and I recently changed the Kconfig symbol to
> CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST on x86. I can fix it for correctness but is
> hyperv and vmware balloon even attempted on ia64?
>
> Btw, it depends on BROKEN on ia64 so I'm already sceptical.

We added "BROKEN" in the middle of last year because this was
kicking out too many errors in Fengguang's zero-day build system.
Essentially all this stuff has been unmaintained for a while now,
and it doesn't seem that anyone is going to start caring about it
again.

-Tony