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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 30 |
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt b/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt index 59a91e5c690..611f5a5499b 100644 --- a/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt +++ b/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt @@ -64,14 +64,14 @@ be used to view the printk buffer of a remote machine, even with live update. Bernhard Kaindl enhanced firescope to support accessing 64-bit machines from 32-bit firescope and vice versa: -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/firescope-0.2.2.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/firescope-0.2.2.tar.bz2 and he implemented fast system dump (alpha version - read README.txt): -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/firedump-0.1.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/firedump-0.1.tar.bz2 There is also a gdb proxy for firewire which allows to use gdb to access data which can be referenced from symbols found by gdb in vmlinux: -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/fireproxy-0.33.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/fireproxy-0.33.tar.bz2 The latest version of this gdb proxy (fireproxy-0.34) can communicate (not yet stable) with kgdb over an memory-based communication module (kgdbom). @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Step-by-step instructions for using firescope with early OHCI initialization: Notes ----- -Documentation and specifications: ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs +Documentation and specifications: http://halobates.de/firewire/ FireWire is a trademark of Apple Inc. - for more information please refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 89a47b5aff0..04e6c819b28 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -451,3 +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> + +---------------------------- |