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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:27:40 -0700
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Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].
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Alok Kataria wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 00:42 -0700, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
>> The thing is, the overwhelming majority of vmware users dont benefit 
>> from hardware features like nested page tables yet. So this needs to be 
>> done _way_ more carefully, with a proper sunset period of a couple of 
>> kernel cycles.
> 
> I am fine with that too. Below is a patch which adds notes in
> feature-removal-schedule.txt, I have marked it for removal from 2.6.34.
> Please consider this patch for 2.6.32.
> 

This seems way, way too early still.

	-hpa