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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 503d21216d58..04e6c819b28a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -354,14 +354,6 @@ Who: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl> --------------------------- -What: fscher and fscpos drivers -When: June 2009 -Why: Deprecated by the new fschmd driver. -Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> - ---------------------------- - What: sysfs ui for changing p4-clockmod parameters When: September 2009 Why: See commits 129f8ae9b1b5be94517da76009ea956e89104ce8 and @@ -428,16 +420,6 @@ Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> ---------------------------- -What: CONFIG_X86_OLD_MCE -When: 2.6.32 -Why: Remove the old legacy 32bit machine check code. This has been - superseded by the newer machine check code from the 64bit port, - but the old version has been kept around for easier testing. Note this - doesn't impact the old P5 and WinChip machine check handlers. -Who: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - ----------------------------- - What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be exported interface anymore. When: 2.6.33 @@ -469,3 +451,33 @@ Why: OSS sound_core grabs all legacy minors (0-255) of SOUND_MAJOR will also allow making ALSA OSS emulation independent of sound_core. The dependency will be broken then too. Who: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> + +---------------------------- + +What: Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be + dropped. +When: 2.6.37 or earlier. +Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies + from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these + techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. + These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the + performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware + expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of + years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this + feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the + Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if + technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops) + arise. + + Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels + still work fine on VMware's platform. + Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, + Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence + releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. + + For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, + http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html + +Who: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> + +---------------------------- |