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1 | The following is a list of files and features that are going to be |
2 | removed in the kernel source tree. Every entry should contain what | |
3 | exactly is going away, why it is happening, and who is going to be doing | |
4 | the work. When the feature is removed from the kernel, it should also | |
5 | be removed from this file. | |
6 | ||
7 | --------------------------- | |
8 | ||
4d8cd268 LR |
9 | What: PRISM54 |
10 | When: 2.6.34 | |
11 | ||
12 | Why: prism54 FullMAC PCI / Cardbus devices used to be supported only by the | |
13 | prism54 wireless driver. After Intersil stopped selling these | |
14 | devices in preference for the newer more flexible SoftMAC devices | |
15 | a SoftMAC device driver was required and prism54 did not support | |
16 | them. The p54pci driver now exists and has been present in the kernel for | |
17 | a while. This driver supports both SoftMAC devices and FullMAC devices. | |
18 | The main difference between these devices was the amount of memory which | |
19 | could be used for the firmware. The SoftMAC devices support a smaller | |
20 | amount of memory. Because of this the SoftMAC firmware fits into FullMAC | |
21 | devices's memory. p54pci supports not only PCI / Cardbus but also USB | |
22 | and SPI. Since p54pci supports all devices prism54 supports | |
23 | you will have a conflict. I'm not quite sure how distributions are | |
24 | handling this conflict right now. prism54 was kept around due to | |
25 | claims users may experience issues when using the SoftMAC driver. | |
26 | Time has passed users have not reported issues. If you use prism54 | |
27 | and for whatever reason you cannot use p54pci please let us know! | |
28 | E-mail us at: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org | |
29 | ||
30 | For more information see the p54 wiki page: | |
31 | ||
32 | http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54 | |
33 | ||
34 | Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> | |
35 | ||
36 | --------------------------- | |
37 | ||
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38 | What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM |
39 | Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM | |
40 | When: July 2009 | |
41 | ||
42 | Why: Many of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM users are technically bogus as entropy | |
43 | sources in the kernel's current entropy model. To resolve this, every | |
44 | input point to the kernel's entropy pool needs to better document the | |
45 | type of entropy source it actually is. This will be replaced with | |
46 | additional add_*_randomness functions in drivers/char/random.c | |
47 | ||
48 | Who: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> & Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> | |
49 | ||
50 | --------------------------- | |
51 | ||
6ee7d330 | 52 | What: The ieee80211_regdom module parameter |
8a5117d8 | 53 | When: March 2010 / desktop catchup |
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54 | |
55 | Why: This was inherited by the CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY code, | |
56 | and currently serves as an option for users to define an | |
57 | ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2 code for the country they are currently | |
58 | present in. Although there are userspace API replacements for this | |
59 | through nl80211 distributions haven't yet caught up with implementing | |
60 | decent alternatives through standard GUIs. Although available as an | |
61 | option through iw or wpa_supplicant its just a matter of time before | |
62 | distributions pick up good GUI options for this. The ideal solution | |
63 | would actually consist of intelligent designs which would do this for | |
64 | the user automatically even when travelling through different countries. | |
65 | Until then we leave this module parameter as a compromise. | |
66 | ||
67 | When userspace improves with reasonable widely-available alternatives for | |
68 | this we will no longer need this module parameter. This entry hopes that | |
69 | by the super-futuristically looking date of "March 2010" we will have | |
70 | such replacements widely available. | |
71 | ||
72 | Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> | |
73 | ||
74 | --------------------------- | |
75 | ||
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76 | What: CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY - old static regulatory information |
77 | When: March 2010 / desktop catchup | |
78 | ||
b2e1b302 LR |
79 | Why: The old regulatory infrastructure has been replaced with a new one |
80 | which does not require statically defined regulatory domains. We do | |
81 | not want to keep static regulatory domains in the kernel due to the | |
82 | the dynamic nature of regulatory law and localization. We kept around | |
83 | the old static definitions for the regulatory domains of: | |
8a5117d8 | 84 | |
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85 | * US |
86 | * JP | |
87 | * EU | |
8a5117d8 | 88 | |
b2e1b302 | 89 | and used by default the US when CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY was |
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90 | set. We will remove this option once the standard Linux desktop catches |
91 | up with the new userspace APIs we have implemented. | |
92 | ||
b2e1b302 LR |
93 | Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> |
94 | ||
95 | --------------------------- | |
96 | ||
471d0558 | 97 | What: dev->power.power_state |
1ebfd79e PM |
98 | When: July 2007 |
99 | Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing | |
100 | driver-internal runtime power management with: mechanisms to support | |
101 | system-wide sleep state transitions; event codes that distinguish | |
102 | different phases of swsusp "sleep" transitions; and userspace policy | |
103 | inputs. This framework was never widely used, and most attempts to | |
104 | use it were broken. Drivers should instead be exposing domain-specific | |
105 | interfaces either to kernel or to userspace. | |
106 | Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> | |
107 | ||
108 | --------------------------- | |
109 | ||
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110 | What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and from Video devices. |
111 | When: July 2009 | |
112 | Files: include/linux/videodev.h | |
113 | Check: include/linux/videodev.h | |
11a5a10e | 114 | Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 |
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115 | series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough |
116 | means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is | |
117 | already available on the main drivers and should be used instead. | |
118 | Newer drivers should use v4l_compat_translate_ioctl function to handle | |
119 | old calls, replacing to newer ones. | |
120 | Decoder iocts are using internally to allow video drivers to | |
121 | communicate with video decoders. This should also be improved to allow | |
122 | V4L2 calls being translated into compatible internal ioctls. | |
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123 | Compatibility ioctls will be provided, for a while, via |
124 | v4l1-compat module. | |
125 | Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> | |
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126 | |
127 | --------------------------- | |
128 | ||
bf45d9b0 DB |
129 | What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) |
130 | When: November 2005 | |
131 | Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c | |
132 | Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a | |
133 | normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel | |
134 | infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA | |
135 | control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is | |
136 | unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the | |
137 | PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more | |
138 | difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either | |
139 | handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new | |
140 | pcmciautils package available at | |
141 | http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ | |
142 | Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> | |
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143 | |
144 | --------------------------- | |
145 | ||
7058cb02 EB |
146 | What: sys_sysctl |
147 | When: September 2010 | |
148 | Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL | |
149 | Why: The same information is available in a more convenient from | |
150 | /proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be | |
151 | important performance wise. | |
152 | ||
153 | Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel | |
154 | bugs and security issues. | |
155 | ||
156 | When I looked several months ago all I could find after | |
157 | searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and | |
158 | glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall. | |
159 | ||
160 | The man page for sysctl(2) documents it as unusable for user | |
161 | space programs. | |
162 | ||
163 | sysctl(2) is not generally ABI compatible to a 32bit user | |
164 | space application on a 64bit and a 32bit kernel. | |
165 | ||
166 | For the last several months the policy has been no new binary | |
167 | sysctls and no one has put forward an argument to use them. | |
168 | ||
169 | Binary sysctls issues seem to keep happening appearing so | |
170 | properly deprecating them (with a warning to user space) and a | |
171 | 2 year grace warning period will mean eventually we can kill | |
172 | them and end the pain. | |
173 | ||
174 | In the mean time individual binary sysctls can be dealt with | |
175 | in a piecewise fashion. | |
176 | ||
177 | Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | |
178 | ||
179 | --------------------------- | |
180 | ||
ac515898 CH |
181 | What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) |
182 | When: August 2006 | |
183 | Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c | |
f0a594c1 | 184 | Check: kernel_thread |
ac515898 CH |
185 | Why: kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail. Drivers should |
186 | use the <linux/kthread.h> API instead which shields them from | |
187 | implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that | |
188 | prevents bugs and code duplication | |
189 | Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | |
190 | ||
191 | --------------------------- | |
192 | ||
f71d20e9 AV |
193 | What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports |
194 | (temporary transition config option provided until then) | |
195 | The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. | |
196 | When: before 2.6.19 | |
197 | Why: Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary | |
198 | and are often a sign of "wrong API" | |
199 | Who: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | |
200 | ||
201 | --------------------------- | |
202 | ||
d81d9d6b | 203 | What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment |
acbd39fb | 204 | When: October 2008 |
d81d9d6b KS |
205 | Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and |
206 | inconsistent. | |
207 | Class devices should not carry any of these properties, and bus | |
208 | devices have SUBSYTEM and DRIVER as a replacement. | |
209 | Who: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> | |
210 | ||
211 | --------------------------- | |
6c805d2c | 212 | |
b981c591 | 213 | What: ACPI procfs interface |
8b8eb7d8 ZR |
214 | When: July 2008 |
215 | Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008. | |
216 | ACPI procfs interface will be removed in July 2008 so that | |
217 | there is enough time for the user space to catch up. | |
b981c591 ZR |
218 | Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> |
219 | ||
220 | --------------------------- | |
221 | ||
1bb67c25 LB |
222 | What: /proc/acpi/button |
223 | When: August 2007 | |
224 | Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer | |
225 | since 2.6.20. | |
226 | Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | |
227 | ||
228 | --------------------------- | |
54b290a2 | 229 | |
14e04fb3 LB |
230 | What: /proc/acpi/event |
231 | When: February 2008 | |
232 | Why: /proc/acpi/event has been replaced by events via the input layer | |
233 | and netlink since 2.6.23. | |
234 | Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | |
235 | ||
236 | --------------------------- | |
237 | ||
914d97fd | 238 | What: i386/x86_64 bzImage symlinks |
19b4e7f4 | 239 | When: April 2010 |
914d97fd TG |
240 | |
241 | Why: The i386/x86_64 merge provides a symlink to the old bzImage | |
242 | location so not yet updated user space tools, e.g. package | |
243 | scripts, do not break. | |
244 | Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | |
038a5008 LT |
245 | |
246 | --------------------------- | |
247 | ||
f9ef8a23 | 248 | What (Why): |
079aa88f JE |
249 | - xt_recent: the old ipt_recent proc dir |
250 | (superseded by /proc/net/xt_recent) | |
251 | ||
f9ef8a23 JE |
252 | When: January 2009 or Linux 2.7.0, whichever comes first |
253 | Why: Superseded by newer revisions or modules | |
254 | Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> | |
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255 | |
256 | --------------------------- | |
257 | ||
8a0cecff DB |
258 | What: GPIO autorequest on gpio_direction_{input,output}() in gpiolib |
259 | When: February 2010 | |
260 | Why: All callers should use explicit gpio_request()/gpio_free(). | |
261 | The autorequest mechanism in gpiolib was provided mostly as a | |
262 | migration aid for legacy GPIO interfaces (for SOC based GPIOs). | |
263 | Those users have now largely migrated. Platforms implementing | |
264 | the GPIO interfaces without using gpiolib will see no changes. | |
265 | Who: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> | |
266 | --------------------------- | |
267 | ||
eb189d8b | 268 | What: b43 support for firmware revision < 410 |
c557289c MB |
269 | When: The schedule was July 2008, but it was decided that we are going to keep the |
270 | code as long as there are no major maintanance headaches. | |
271 | So it _could_ be removed _any_ time now, if it conflicts with something new. | |
eb189d8b MB |
272 | Why: The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainability |
273 | and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware | |
274 | are not provided by Broadcom anymore. | |
275 | Who: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> | |
e88bb415 DM |
276 | |
277 | --------------------------- | |
278 | ||
fae9a0d8 GC |
279 | What: usedac i386 kernel parameter |
280 | When: 2.6.27 | |
281 | Why: replaced by allowdac and no dac combination | |
282 | Who: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> | |
283 | ||
52f7c21b MF |
284 | --------------------------- |
285 | ||
c80cfb04 BH |
286 | What: print_fn_descriptor_symbol() |
287 | When: October 2009 | |
288 | Why: The %pF vsprintf format provides the same functionality in a | |
289 | simpler way. print_fn_descriptor_symbol() is deprecated but | |
290 | still present to give out-of-tree modules time to change. | |
291 | Who: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> | |
292 | ||
293 | --------------------------- | |
294 | ||
52f7c21b MF |
295 | What: /sys/o2cb symlink |
296 | When: January 2010 | |
297 | Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb | |
298 | exists as a symlink for backwards compatibility for old versions of | |
299 | ocfs2-tools. 2 years should be sufficient time to phase in new versions | |
300 | which know to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. | |
301 | Who: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com | |
d2f5e808 MW |
302 | |
303 | --------------------------- | |
304 | ||
ecbed6a4 VY |
305 | What: SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_OLD, |
306 | SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_OLD | |
307 | When: June 2009 | |
308 | Why: A newer version of the options have been introduced in 2005 that | |
309 | removes the limitions of the old API. The sctp library has been | |
310 | converted to use these new options at the same time. Any user | |
311 | space app that directly uses the old options should convert to using | |
312 | the new options. | |
313 | Who: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> | |
ea2aca08 DM |
314 | |
315 | --------------------------- | |
316 | ||
2584e517 RT |
317 | What: Ability for non root users to shm_get hugetlb pages based on mlock |
318 | resource limits | |
319 | When: 2.6.31 | |
320 | Why: Non root users need to be part of /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group or | |
321 | have CAP_IPC_LOCK to be able to allocate shm segments backed by | |
322 | huge pages. The mlock based rlimit check to allow shm hugetlb is | |
323 | inconsistent with mmap based allocations. Hence it is being | |
324 | deprecated. | |
325 | Who: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> | |
326 | ||
327 | --------------------------- | |
328 | ||
16d75239 RH |
329 | What: CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON |
330 | When: January 2009 | |
331 | Why: This option was introduced just to allow older lm-sensors userspace | |
332 | to keep working over the upgrade to 2.6.26. At the scheduled time of | |
333 | removal fixed lm-sensors (2.x or 3.x) should be readily available. | |
334 | Who: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> | |
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335 | |
336 | --------------------------- | |
337 | ||
338 | What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS | |
339 | (in net/core/net-sysfs.c) | |
340 | When: After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches | |
341 | for enough time, probably some time in 2010. | |
342 | Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other | |
343 | ways (ioctls) | |
344 | Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | |
58401572 KPO |
345 | |
346 | --------------------------- | |
347 | ||
348 | What: CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT | |
349 | When: 2.6.29 | |
350 | Why: Accounting can now be enabled/disabled without kernel recompilation. | |
351 | Currently used only to set a default value for a feature that is also | |
352 | controlled by a kernel/module/sysfs/sysctl parameter. | |
353 | Who: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl> | |
354 | ||
46dfa040 FT |
355 | --------------------------- |
356 | ||
753b7aea DJ |
357 | What: sysfs ui for changing p4-clockmod parameters |
358 | When: September 2009 | |
359 | Why: See commits 129f8ae9b1b5be94517da76009ea956e89104ce8 and | |
360 | e088e4c9cdb618675874becb91b2fd581ee707e6. | |
361 | Removal is subject to fixing any remaining bugs in ACPI which may | |
362 | cause the thermal throttling not to happen at the right time. | |
363 | Who: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> | |
0e57aa11 TG |
364 | |
365 | ----------------------------- | |
366 | ||
367 | What: __do_IRQ all in one fits nothing interrupt handler | |
368 | When: 2.6.32 | |
369 | Why: __do_IRQ was kept for easy migration to the type flow handlers. | |
370 | More than two years of migration time is enough. | |
371 | Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | |
cb065c06 TG |
372 | |
373 | ----------------------------- | |
374 | ||
f110ca48 AC |
375 | What: fakephp and associated sysfs files in /sys/bus/pci/slots/ |
376 | When: 2011 | |
377 | Why: In 2.6.27, the semantics of /sys/bus/pci/slots was redefined to | |
378 | represent a machine's physical PCI slots. The change in semantics | |
379 | had userspace implications, as the hotplug core no longer allowed | |
380 | drivers to create multiple sysfs files per physical slot (required | |
381 | for multi-function devices, e.g.). fakephp was seen as a developer's | |
382 | tool only, and its interface changed. Too late, we learned that | |
383 | there were some users of the fakephp interface. | |
384 | ||
385 | In 2.6.30, the original fakephp interface was restored. At the same | |
386 | time, the PCI core gained the ability that fakephp provided, namely | |
387 | function-level hot-remove and hot-add. | |
388 | ||
389 | Since the PCI core now provides the same functionality, exposed in: | |
390 | ||
391 | /sys/bus/pci/rescan | |
392 | /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove | |
393 | /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan | |
394 | ||
395 | there is no functional reason to maintain fakephp as well. | |
396 | ||
397 | We will keep the existing module so that 'modprobe fakephp' will | |
398 | present the old /sys/bus/pci/slots/... interface for compatibility, | |
399 | but users are urged to migrate their applications to the API above. | |
400 | ||
401 | After a reasonable transition period, we will remove the legacy | |
402 | fakephp interface. | |
403 | Who: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> | |
3f307fb3 JD |
404 | |
405 | --------------------------- | |
406 | ||
407 | What: i2c-voodoo3 driver | |
408 | When: October 2009 | |
409 | Why: Superseded by tdfxfb. I2C/DDC support used to live in a separate | |
410 | driver but this caused driver conflicts. | |
411 | Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | |
412 | Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> | |
c64fb016 JB |
413 | |
414 | --------------------------- | |
415 | ||
416 | What: CONFIG_RFKILL_INPUT | |
417 | When: 2.6.33 | |
418 | Why: Should be implemented in userspace, policy daemon. | |
419 | Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | |
9cbc1cb8 | 420 | |
cdc321ff EP |
421 | --------------------------- |
422 | ||
423 | What: CONFIG_INOTIFY | |
424 | When: 2.6.33 | |
425 | Why: last user (audit) will be converted to the newer more generic | |
426 | and more easily maintained fsnotify subsystem | |
427 | Who: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | |
428 | ||
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429 | ---------------------------- |
430 | ||
37c90e88 | 431 | What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be |
432 | exported interface anymore. | |
433 | When: 2.6.33 | |
434 | Why: cpu_policy_rwsem has a new cleaner definition making it local to | |
435 | cpufreq core and contained inside cpufreq.c. Other dependent | |
436 | drivers should not use it in order to safely avoid lockdep issues. | |
437 | Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> | |
93fe4483 TH |
438 | |
439 | ---------------------------- | |
440 | ||
441 | What: sound-slot/service-* module aliases and related clutters in | |
442 | sound/sound_core.c | |
443 | When: August 2010 | |
444 | Why: OSS sound_core grabs all legacy minors (0-255) of SOUND_MAJOR | |
445 | (14) and requests modules using custom sound-slot/service-* | |
446 | module aliases. The only benefit of doing this is allowing | |
447 | use of custom module aliases which might as well be considered | |
448 | a bug at this point. This preemptive claiming prevents | |
449 | alternative OSS implementations. | |
450 | ||
451 | Till the feature is removed, the kernel will be requesting | |
452 | both sound-slot/service-* and the standard char-major-* module | |
453 | aliases and allow turning off the pre-claiming selectively via | |
454 | CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM and soundcore.preclaim_oss | |
455 | kernel parameter. | |
456 | ||
457 | After the transition phase is complete, both the custom module | |
458 | aliases and switches to disable it will go away. This removal | |
459 | will also allow making ALSA OSS emulation independent of | |
460 | sound_core. The dependency will be broken then too. | |
461 | Who: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | |
d0153ca3 AK |
462 | |
463 | ---------------------------- | |
464 | ||
465 | What: Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be | |
466 | dropped. | |
467 | When: 2.6.37 or earlier. | |
468 | Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies | |
469 | from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these | |
470 | techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. | |
471 | These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the | |
472 | performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware | |
473 | expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of | |
474 | years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this | |
475 | feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the | |
476 | Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if | |
477 | technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops) | |
478 | arise. | |
479 | ||
480 | Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels | |
481 | still work fine on VMware's platform. | |
482 | Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, | |
483 | Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence | |
484 | releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. | |
485 | ||
486 | For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, | |
487 | http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html | |
488 | ||
489 | Who: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> | |
490 | ||
491 | ---------------------------- |