1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 8da93745c087..07e01149e3bf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -86,10 +86,6 @@ config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
 config HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
         def_bool y
 
-config FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
-        bool
-        default y
-
 config MMU
         def_bool y
 
@@ -495,7 +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---
@@ -504,6 +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