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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index c876bace8fd..72ace9515a0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ 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 +500,15 @@ 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 @@ -1434,12 +1443,8 @@ config SECCOMP If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. -config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL - bool - config CC_STACKPROTECTOR bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" - select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL ---help--- This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on |