11032c0baSSam Ravnborg# x86 configuration 21032c0baSSam Ravnborg 31032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 48d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 58d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 68d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 78d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 88d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 98d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 138d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 148d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 158d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 168d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 178d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 188d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 208d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 218d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 268d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 278d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 298d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 308d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 318d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 328d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 338d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 348d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 358d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 368d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 378d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 388d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 398d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 408d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS 418d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 428d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 438d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 448d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 458d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 468d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 478d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig QUICKLIST 538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_32 558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig DMI 818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 841032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 851032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 861032c0baSSam Ravnborg 871032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 881032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 891032c0baSSam Ravnborg 901032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U32 911032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool n 921032c0baSSam Ravnborg 931032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U64 941032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool n 951032c0baSSam Ravnborg 961032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 971032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 981032c0baSSam Ravnborg 998d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1058d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1068d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1088d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1098d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1138d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1148d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1158d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1168d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1178d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1188d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1208d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1218d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1268d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1278d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 1288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1298d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 1308d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1318d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1328d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SMP 1338d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1348d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP && !X86_VOYAGER 1358d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1368d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1378d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 1388d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1398d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER || MK8) 1408d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1418d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1428d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_BIOS_REBOOT 1438d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1448d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) 1458d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1468d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1478d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 1488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_SMP || (X86_VOYAGER && SMP) 1508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 1538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 154*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 156*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 157*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 158*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 159*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 160*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 161*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 162*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 163*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 164*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 165*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 166*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 167*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 168*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 169*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 170*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 171*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 172*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 173*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 174*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 175*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 176*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 177*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 178*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 179*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 180*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 181*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 182*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg See also the <file:Documentation/smp.txt>, 183*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 184*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 185*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 186*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 187*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 188*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 189*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 190*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Subarchitecture Type" 191*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default X86_PC 192*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 193*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PC 194*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "PC-compatible" 195*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 196*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose this option if your computer is a standard PC or compatible. 197*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 198*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_ELAN 199*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "AMD Elan" 200*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 201*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 202*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 203*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 204*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 205*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 206*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 207*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 208*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VOYAGER 209*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Voyager (NCR)" 210*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 211*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SMP if !BROKEN 212*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 213*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary 214*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based. 215*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 216*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg *** WARNING *** 217*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 218*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine, 219*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say N here, otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable. 220*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 221*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 222*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 223*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SMP 224*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 225*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 226*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 227*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA 228*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped, 229*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead of Flat Logical. 230*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your firmware with - send 231*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 232*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 233*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT 234*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 235*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 236*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 237*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 238*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In particular, it is needed for the x440. 239*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 240*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have one of these computers, you should say N here. 241*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you want to build a NUMA kernel, you must select ACPI. 242*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 243*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_BIGSMP 244*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for other sub-arch SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 245*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 246*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 247*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 248*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and if the system is not of any sub-arch type above. 249*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 250*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have such a system, you should say N here. 251*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 252*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS 253*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 254*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 255*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 256*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 257*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 258*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 259*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 260*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 261*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will not run on PCs 262*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and vice versa. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 263*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 264*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_GENERICARCH 265*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Generic architecture (Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default)" 266*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 267*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 268*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option compiles in the Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default subarchitectures. 269*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 270*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you want a NUMA kernel, select ACPI. We need SRAT for NUMA. 271*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 272*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_ES7000 273*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 274*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 275*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 276*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 277*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 278*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Only choose this option if you have such a system, otherwise you 279*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg should say N here. 280*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 281*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VSMP 282*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for ScaleMP vSMP" 283*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 284*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 285*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 286*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 287*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg if you have one of these machines. 288*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 289*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 290*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 291*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 292*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Single-depth WCHAN output" 293*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 294*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 295*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 296*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 297*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 298*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 299*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 300*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 301*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 302*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 303*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PARAVIRT 304*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 305*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) 306*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 307*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 308*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 309*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 310*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 311*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 312*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 313*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 314*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 315*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 316*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 317*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 318*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 319*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 320*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 321*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 322*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 323*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 324*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 325*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 326*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 327*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 328*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) 329*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 330*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 331*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 332*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 333*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 334*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 335*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 336*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 337*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 338*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 339*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ACPI_SRAT 340*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 341*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 342*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && ACPI && NUMA && (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) 343*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 344*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 345*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_PARSE_SRAT 346*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 347*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 348*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on ACPI_SRAT 349*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 350*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 351*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 352*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 353*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA && (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) 354*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 355*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 356*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 357*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 358*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH 359*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 360*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ES7000_CLUSTERED_APIC 361*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 362*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 363*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP && X86_ES7000 && MPENTIUMIII 364*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 365*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 366*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 367*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 368*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 369*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 370*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 371*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 372*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 373*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 374*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 375*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 376*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 377*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 378*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 379*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec.htm>. 380*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 381*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 382*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 383*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 384*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 385*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 386*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 387*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 388*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 389*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on HPET_TIMER && RTC=y 390*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 391*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 392*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 393*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 394*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 395*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 396*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 397*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 398*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select AGP 399*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 400*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 401*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 402*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 403*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 404*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 405*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 406*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 407*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 408*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 409*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 410*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 411*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 412*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 413*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 414*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 415*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 416*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 417*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 418*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 419*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 420*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 421*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 422*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 423*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 424*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 425*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 426*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 427*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 428*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 429*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 430*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 431*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 432*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 433*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 434*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 435*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 436*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 437*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 438*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 439*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 440*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 441*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 442*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 443*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 444*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 445*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 446*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 447*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 448*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 449*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 450*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 451*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 452*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-255)" 453*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 2 255 454*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 455*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "32" if X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000 456*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "8" 457*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 458*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 459*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 255 and the 460*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 461*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 462*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 463*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 464*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 465*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 466*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 467*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on (X86_64 && SMP) || (X86_32 && X86_HT) 468*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 469*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 470*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 471*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 472*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 473*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 474*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 475*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Multi-core scheduler support" 476*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on (X86_64 && SMP) || (X86_32 && X86_HT) 477*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 478*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 479*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 480*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 481*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 482*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 483*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 484*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 485*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 486*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 487*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER || X86_GENERICARCH) 488*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 489*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 490*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 491*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 492*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 493*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 494*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 495*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 496*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 497*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 498*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 499*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 500*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 501*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 502*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 503*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 504*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 505*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 506*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 507*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 508*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 509*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 510*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 511*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 512*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && (X86_UP_APIC || ((X86_VISWS || SMP) && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_GENERICARCH)) 513*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 514*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 515*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 516*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 517*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && (X86_UP_IOAPIC || (SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER)) || X86_GENERICARCH)) 518*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 519*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 520*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 521*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 522*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 523*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 524*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 525*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 526*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Machine Check Exception" 527*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 528*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 529*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the 530*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). 531*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 532*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. 533*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the 534*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems 535*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is 536*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" 537*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a 538*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" 539*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like 540*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. 541*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 542*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 543*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Intel MCE features" 544*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 545*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 546*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 547*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 548*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 549*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 550*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 551*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "AMD MCE features" 552*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 553*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 554*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 555*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 556*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 557*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 558*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_NONFATAL 559*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" 560*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 561*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 562*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which 563*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. 564*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). 565*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. 566*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying 567*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. 568*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option only does something on certain CPUs. 569*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) 570*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 571*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_P4THERMAL 572*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." 573*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) && !X86_VISWS 574*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 575*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 576*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enters thermal throttling. 577*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 578*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 579*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 580*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 581*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 582*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 583*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 584*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 585*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 586*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 587*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 588*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 589*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 590*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 591*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 592*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 593*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 594*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 595*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 596*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 597*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 598*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 599*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 600*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 601*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 602*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 603*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 604*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 605*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 606*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 607*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 608*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 609*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 610*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 611*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 612*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 613*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 614*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 615*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 616*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 617*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 618*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 619*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 620*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 621*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 622*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 623*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 624*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 625*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 626*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 627*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86 628*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default n 629*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 630*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 631*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 632*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 633*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 634*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 635*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 636*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 637*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets. 638*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 639*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 640*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 641*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 642*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 643*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 644*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support" 645*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 646*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 647*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 648*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Intel processors in the IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, 649*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Pentium III, Pentium 4, Xeon etc. You will obviously need the 650*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg actual microcode binary data itself which is not shipped with the 651*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux kernel. 652*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 653*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 654*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ingredients for this driver, check: 655*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 656*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 657*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 658*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 659*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 660*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 661*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 662*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 663*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 664*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 665*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 666*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 667*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 668*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 669*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 670*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 671*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 672*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 673*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 674*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 675*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 676*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 677*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 678*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 679*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 680*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 681*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 682*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 683*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 684*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 685*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 686*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 687*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 688*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 689*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 690*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 691*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 692*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 693*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 694*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 695*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 696*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 697*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 698*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 699*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 700*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 701*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 702*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 703*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 704*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 705*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 706*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 707*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 708*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 709*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 710*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 711*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 712*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 713*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 714*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 715*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 716*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 717*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 718*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 719*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 720*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 721*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 722*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 723*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 724*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 725*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 726*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 727*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 728*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 729*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 730*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 731*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 732*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 733*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 734*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 735*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 736*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 737*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 738*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 739*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 740*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 741*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 742*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 743*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 744*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 745*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 746*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 747*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 748*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 749*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 750*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 751*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 752*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 753*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 754*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 755*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 756*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 757*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 758*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 759*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 760*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 761*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 762*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 763*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 764*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 765*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 766*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 767*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 768*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 769*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 770*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 771*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 772*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 773*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 774*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 775*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 776*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 777*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 778*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 779*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 780*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 781*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 782*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 783*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 784*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 785*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 786*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 787*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 788*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 789*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 790*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 791*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 792*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 793*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default n 794*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 795*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select RESOURCES_64BIT 796*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 797*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 798*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 799*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 800*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 801*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 802*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 803*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 804*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 805*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 806*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 807*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default n if X86_PC 808*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT) 809*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 810*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 811*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 812*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 813*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 814*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 815*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For i386 this is currently highly experimental and should be only 816*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used for kernel development. It might also cause boot failures. 817*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For x86_64 this is recommended on all multiprocessor Opteron systems. 818*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the system is EM64T, you should say N unless your system is 819*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg EM64T NUMA. 820*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 821*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 822*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 823*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 824*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 825*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 826*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 827*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 828*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 829*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 830*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 831*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 832*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 833*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 834*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 835*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 836*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "ACPI NUMA detection" 837*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 838*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 839*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 840*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 841*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 842*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 843*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 844*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 845*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 846*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 847*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 848*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 849*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 850*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 851*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 852*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg int 853*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 854*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 855*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 856*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 857*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 858*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE 859*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 860*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 861*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 862*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 863*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 864*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 865*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 866*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 867*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 868*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 869*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 870*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 871*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 872*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 873*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 874*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 875*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 876*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 877*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 878*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 879*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 880*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on (X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && X86_PC) || (X86_64 && !NUMA) 881*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 882*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 883*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 884*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 885*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 886*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 887*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 888*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 889*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 890*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 891*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 892*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && (X86_PC || X86_64)) 893*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 894*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 895*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 896*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 897*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 898*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 899*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 900*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 901*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 902*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 903*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 904*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 905*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 906*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 907*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 908*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 909*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 910*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 911*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 912*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 913*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 914*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 915*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 916*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 917*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 918*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 919*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 920*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 921*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 922*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 923*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 924*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 925*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 926*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 927*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 928*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 929*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 930*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 931*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 932*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 933*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 934*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 935*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 936*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 937*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 938*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 939*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 940*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 941*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 942*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 943*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 944*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 945*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 946*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 947*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 948*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 949*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 950*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 951*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 952*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 953*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 954*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 955*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 956*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 957*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 958*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 959*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 960*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 961*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 962*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 963*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 964*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 965*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 966*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 967*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 968*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 969*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 970*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 971*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 972*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 973*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg See <file:Documentation/mtrr.txt> for more information. 974*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 975*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 976*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Boot from EFI support" 977*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && ACPI 978*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default n 979*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 980*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables the kernel to boot on EFI platforms using 981*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system configuration information passed to it from the firmware. 982*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This also enables the kernel to use any EFI runtime services that are 983*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 984*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 985*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware 986*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and will result in a kernel image that is ~8k larger. In addition, 987*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you must use the latest ELILO loader available at 988*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage of 989*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel initialization using EFI information (neither GRUB nor LILO know 990*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg anything about EFI). However, even with this option, the resultant 991*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI platforms. 992*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 993*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig IRQBALANCE 994*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable kernel irq balancing" 995*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP && X86_IO_APIC 996*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 997*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 998*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The default yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing. 999*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying no will keep the kernel from doing irq load balancing. 1000*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1001*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# turning this on wastes a bunch of space. 1002*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Summit needs it only when NUMA is on 1003*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig BOOT_IOREMAP 1004*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1005*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (((X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) && NUMA) || (X86 && EFI)) 1006*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 1007*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1008*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 1009*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 1010*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on PROC_FS 1011*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 1012*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1013*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1014*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1015*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1016*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1017*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1018*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 1019*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enabled via /proc/<pid>/seccomp, it cannot be disabled 1020*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1021*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1022*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1023*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1024*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1025*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1026*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1027*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && EXPERIMENTAL 1028*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1029*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1030*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg feature puts, at the beginning of critical functions, a canary 1031*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg value on the stack just before the return address, and validates 1032*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1033*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1034*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1035*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1036*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1037*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1038*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1039*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg detected and for those versions, this configuration option is ignored. 1040*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1041*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1042*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Use stack-protector for all functions" 1043*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1044*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1045*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally, GCC only inserts the canary value protection for 1046*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg functions that use large-ish on-stack buffers. By enabling 1047*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this option, GCC will be asked to do this for ALL functions. 1048*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1049*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1050*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1051*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1052*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 1053*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1054*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1055*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1056*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1057*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1058*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1059*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1060*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1061*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1062*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1063*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1064*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1065*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1066*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1067*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 1068*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1069*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1070*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1071*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1072*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1073*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1074*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1075*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1076*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1077*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1078*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1079*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1080*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1081*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1082*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1083*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1084*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ 1085*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1086*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" 1087*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1088*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1089*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1090*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1091*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1092*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1093*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1094*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1095*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1096*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1097*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1098*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1099*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1100*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1101*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1102*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1103*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1104*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1105*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave 1106*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. 1107*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump 1108*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB 1109*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as 1110*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter 1111*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as 1112*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at 1113*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. 1114*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1115*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1116*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1117*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1118*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1119*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1120*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1121*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1122*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1123*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1124*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1125*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 1126*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1127*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1128*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1129*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1130*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1131*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1132*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1133*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1134*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1135*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1136*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1137*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1138*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1139*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1140*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1141*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1142*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1143*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1144*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1145*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" if X86_32 1146*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1147*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 0x2000 0x400000 1148*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1149*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1150*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1151*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1152*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1153*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1154*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1155*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1156*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1157*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1158*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1159*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1160*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1161*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1162*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1163*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1164*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1165*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1166*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1167*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 1168*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for suspend on SMP and hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1169*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && EXPERIMENTAL && !X86_VOYAGER 1170*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1171*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on, and to 1172*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable suspend on SMP systems. CPUs can be controlled through 1173*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /sys/devices/system/cpu. 1174*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug and don't need to 1175*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg suspend. 1176*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1177*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 1178*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Compat VDSO support" 1179*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 1180*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1181*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1182*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Map the VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1183*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1184*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1185*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1186*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1187*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1188*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1189*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1190*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1191*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1192*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1193*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1194*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1195*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1196*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE 1197*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1198*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on (MEMORY_HOTPLUG && DISCONTIGMEM) 1199*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1200*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1201*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1202*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1203*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1204*506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig OUT_OF_LINE_PFN_TO_PAGE 1205*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1206*506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on DISCONTIGMEM 12071032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1208e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Power management options" 1209e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 1210e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1211e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 1212e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool 1213e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1214e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1215e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1216e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1217e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1218e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1219e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1220e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1221e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1222e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP && !X86_VISWS 1223e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1224e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1225e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1226e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1227e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1228e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1229e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1230e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1231e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1232e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1233e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1234e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1235e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1236e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1237e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 1238e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and more information, read <file:Documentation/pm.txt> and the 1239e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1240e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1241e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1242e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1243e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1244e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1245e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1246e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1247e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1248e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1249e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1250e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1251e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1252e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1253e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1254e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1255e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1256e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1257e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1258e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1259e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1260e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1261e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1262e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1263e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1264e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1265e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1266e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1267e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1268e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1269e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1270e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1271e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1272e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1273e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1274e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1275e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1276e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1277e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1278e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1279e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1280e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1281e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1282e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 1283e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1284e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1285e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1286e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1287e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1288e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1289e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1290e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1291e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1292e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1293e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1294e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1295e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1296e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1297e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1298e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1299e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1300e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1301e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1302e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1303e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1304e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1305e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1306e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 1307e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1308e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1309e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1310e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1311e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1312e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1313e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1314e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1315e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1316e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1317e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 1318e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1319e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1320e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1321e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1322e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1323e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1324e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1325e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1326e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1327e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1328e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1329e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1330e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 1331e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1332e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1333e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1334e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1335e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1336e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1337e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1338e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1339e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF 1340e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off" 1341e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1342e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Use real mode APM BIOS calls to switch off the computer. This is 1343e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a work-around for a number of buggy BIOSes. Switch this option on if 1344e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your computer crashes instead of powering off properly. 1345e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1346e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1347e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1348e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1349e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1350e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1351e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1352e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1353e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1354e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1355e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1356e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1357e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 1358e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "PCI support" if !X86_VISWS 1359e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 1360e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y if X86_VISWS 1361e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 1362e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1363e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1364e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1365e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1366e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1367e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1368e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The PCI-HOWTO, available from 1369e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, contains valuable 1370e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg information about which PCI hardware does work under Linux and which 1371e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg doesn't. 1372e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1373e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1374e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1375e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && !X86_VISWS 1376e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1377e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1378e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1379e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1380e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1381e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1382e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1383e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1384e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1385e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1386e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1387e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1388e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1389e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1390e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1391e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1392e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1393e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1394e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1395e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1396e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1397e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1398e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1399e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1400e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1401e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOANY 1402e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Any" 1403e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1404e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1405e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1406e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 1407e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool 1408e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !X86_VISWS && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1409e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1410e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1411e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1412e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 1413e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool 1414e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY) || X86_VISWS) 1415e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1416e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1417e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1418e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool 1419e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1420e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1421e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1422e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 1423e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool 1424e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1425e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1426e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1427e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1428e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1429e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1430e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1431e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1432e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1433e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 1434e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1435e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1436e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1437e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1438e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1439e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1440e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1441e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_GFX_WA 1442e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for Graphics workaround" 1443e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 1444e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1445e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1446e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 1447e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 1448e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 1449e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 1450e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg to use physical addresses for DMA. 1451e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1452e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 1453e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool 1454e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 1455e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1456e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1457e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls 1458e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1459e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1460e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1461e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1462e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1463e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1464e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1465e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1466e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1467e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 1468e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool 1469e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1470e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1471e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1472e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1473e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1474e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 1475e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !(X86_VOYAGER || X86_VISWS) 1476e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1477e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1478e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1479e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1480e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1481e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1482e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1483e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1484e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1485e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1486e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1487e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1488e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1489e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1490e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1491e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1492e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1493e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1494e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1495e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1496e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1497e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1498e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1499e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1500e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1501e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 1502e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MCA support" if !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) 1503e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y if X86_VOYAGER 1504e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1505e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1506e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1507e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1508e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1509e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1510e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1511e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1512e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1513e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 1514e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 1515e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1516e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1517e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1518e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1519e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1520e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1521e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1522e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1523e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1524e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1525e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1526e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1527e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1528e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1529e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1530e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1531e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1532e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1533e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1534e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 1535e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1536e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 1537e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1538e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1539e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 1540e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 1541e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 1542e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 1543e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1544bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 1545bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 1546e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 1547e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1548bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 1549e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1550e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 1551e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1552e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 1553e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1554e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1555e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1556e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1557e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 1558e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1559e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 1560e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1561e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 1562e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 1563e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1564e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1565e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 1566e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 1567e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 1568e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1569e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 1570e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 1571e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 1572e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1573e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 1574e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1575e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 1576e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool 1577e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 1578e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1579e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1580e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 1581e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 1582e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1583e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1584e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 1585e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool 1586e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && COMPAT && SYSVIPC 1587e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1588e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1589e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1590e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1591e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1592e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 1593e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1594e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 1595e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1596e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 1597e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1598e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 1599e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1600e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation" 1601e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1602e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 1603e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1604e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 1605e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1606e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 1607e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1608e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 1609