Commit e9417fb3 authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar Committed by Linus Torvalds

[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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3f1a73b6
...@@ -223,8 +223,9 @@ config VMI ...@@ -223,8 +223,9 @@ config VMI
depends on PARAVIRT depends on PARAVIRT
default y default y
help help
VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to multiple hypervisors VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server
include VMware ESX server and Xen by connecting to a ROM module (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. provided by the hypervisor.
config ACPI_SRAT config ACPI_SRAT
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