Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint

[~andy/linux] / arch / x86 / Kconfig

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index c876bace8fdc95a1bc9ce31abbfe68247c1ac309..1b7c74350a04d02a65443909b4e6dd9679a0d827 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ config X86
        select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
        select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
        select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
+       select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
        select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK
 
 config OUTPUT_FORMAT
@@ -491,7 +492,7 @@ if PARAVIRT_GUEST
 source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
 
 config VMI
-       bool "VMI Guest support"
+       bool "VMI Guest support (DEPRECATED)"
        select PARAVIRT
        depends on X86_32
        ---help---
@@ -500,6 +501,15 @@ config VMI
          at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
          provided by the hypervisor.
 
+         As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement
+         of this feature from VMware's products. Please see
+         feature-removal-schedule.txt for details.  If you are
+         planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot
+         live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product,
+         which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to
+         seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this
+         disabled.
+
 config KVM_CLOCK
        bool "KVM paravirtualized clock"
        select PARAVIRT