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[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 <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ingo Molnar 18 年之前
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      arch/i386/Kconfig

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arch/i386/Kconfig

@@ -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
-	  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.
 	  provided by the hypervisor.
 
 
 config ACPI_SRAT
 config ACPI_SRAT