Drivers: hv: Remove support for WS2012/2012R2 & Win8/8.1 version of Hyper-V

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Linux code for running as a Hyper-V guest includes special cases for
running on Hyper-V in WS2012/2012R2 and Windows 8/8.1. These versions
were initially released 14 years ago, and official support ended in 2023
(unless a customer has contracted for extended security updates). Given
the release of subsequent versions with improved functionality, there's
no need to continue to support the latest Linux kernels on these versions
of Hyper-V. If someone is running Linux on one of these older Hyper-V
versions and doesn't want to upgrade, they can continue to do so as
presumably they don't want upgrade the Linux version either.

Simplify Linux code by removing special cases for running on these
old versions of Hyper-V. Remove the negotiation of the VMBus protocol
versions for WS2012/Win8, and remove special case code based on those
VMBus protocol versions. Also update the balloon and snapshot drivers
to no longer negotiate driver-specific protocol versions for these
older Hyper-V versions, and remove any related special cases.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>

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Michael Kelley 2026-08-05 13:37:46 -07:00 • committed by Wei Liu

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drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c

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drivers/hv/connection.c

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drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c

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drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c

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include/linux/hyperv.h

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