1*b2441318SGreg Kroah-Hartman# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 21da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Generic Driver Options" 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds 486d56134SMichael Marineauconfig UEVENT_HELPER 586d56134SMichael Marineau bool "Support for uevent helper" 686d56134SMichael Marineau default y 76a8d8abbSKay Sievers help 886d56134SMichael Marineau The uevent helper program is forked by the kernel for 96a8d8abbSKay Sievers every uevent. 107934779aSKay Sievers Before the switch to the netlink-based uevent source, this was 117934779aSKay Sievers used to hook hotplug scripts into kernel device events. It 127934779aSKay Sievers usually pointed to a shell script at /sbin/hotplug. 137934779aSKay Sievers This should not be used today, because usual systems create 147934779aSKay Sievers many events at bootup or device discovery in a very short time 157934779aSKay Sievers frame. One forked process per event can create so many processes 167934779aSKay Sievers that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems 177934779aSKay Sievers it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup. 186a8d8abbSKay Sievers 1986d56134SMichael Marineauconfig UEVENT_HELPER_PATH 2086d56134SMichael Marineau string "path to uevent helper" 2186d56134SMichael Marineau depends on UEVENT_HELPER 2286d56134SMichael Marineau default "" 2386d56134SMichael Marineau help 2486d56134SMichael Marineau To disable user space helper program execution at by default 2586d56134SMichael Marineau specify an empty string here. This setting can still be altered 26573c9774SMárton Németh via /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug or via /sys/kernel/uevent_helper 27573c9774SMárton Németh later at runtime. 28573c9774SMárton Németh 292b2af54aSKay Sieversconfig DEVTMPFS 304237e5fdSKay Sievers bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev" 312b2af54aSKay Sievers help 32da5e4ef7SPeter Korsgaard This creates a tmpfs/ramfs filesystem instance early at bootup. 334237e5fdSKay Sievers In this filesystem, the kernel driver core maintains device 344237e5fdSKay Sievers nodes with their default names and permissions for all 354237e5fdSKay Sievers registered devices with an assigned major/minor number. 364237e5fdSKay Sievers Userspace can modify the filesystem content as needed, add 374237e5fdSKay Sievers symlinks, and apply needed permissions. 384237e5fdSKay Sievers It provides a fully functional /dev directory, where usually 394237e5fdSKay Sievers udev runs on top, managing permissions and adding meaningful 404237e5fdSKay Sievers symlinks. 414237e5fdSKay Sievers In very limited environments, it may provide a sufficient 424237e5fdSKay Sievers functional /dev without any further help. It also allows simple 434237e5fdSKay Sievers rescue systems, and reliably handles dynamic major/minor numbers. 442b2af54aSKay Sievers 45da5e4ef7SPeter Korsgaard Notice: if CONFIG_TMPFS isn't enabled, the simpler ramfs 46da5e4ef7SPeter Korsgaard file system will be used instead. 47da5e4ef7SPeter Korsgaard 482b2af54aSKay Sieversconfig DEVTMPFS_MOUNT 494237e5fdSKay Sievers bool "Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs" 502b2af54aSKay Sievers depends on DEVTMPFS 512b2af54aSKay Sievers help 524237e5fdSKay Sievers This will instruct the kernel to automatically mount the 534237e5fdSKay Sievers devtmpfs filesystem at /dev, directly after the kernel has 544237e5fdSKay Sievers mounted the root filesystem. The behavior can be overridden 554237e5fdSKay Sievers with the commandline parameter: devtmpfs.mount=0|1. 564237e5fdSKay Sievers This option does not affect initramfs based booting, here 574237e5fdSKay Sievers the devtmpfs filesystem always needs to be mounted manually 580feb03afSEmilio López after the rootfs is mounted. 594237e5fdSKay Sievers With this option enabled, it allows to bring up a system in 604237e5fdSKay Sievers rescue mode with init=/bin/sh, even when the /dev directory 614237e5fdSKay Sievers on the rootfs is completely empty. 622b2af54aSKay Sievers 631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STANDALONE 64967857dfSKees Cook bool "Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware" 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Select this option if you don't have magic firmware for drivers that 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds need it. 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prevent firmware from being built" 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say yes to avoid building firmware. Firmware is usually shipped 77113647a2Smatt mooney with the driver and only when updating the firmware should a 78113647a2Smatt mooney rebuild be made. 79113647a2Smatt mooney If unsure, say Y here. 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FW_LOADER 826a108a14SDavid Rientjes tristate "Userspace firmware loading support" if EXPERT 83d9b19199SAdrian Bunk default y 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 85113647a2Smatt mooney This option is provided for the case where none of the in-tree modules 86113647a2Smatt mooney require userspace firmware loading support, but a module built 87113647a2Smatt mooney out-of-tree does. 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 89d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouseconfig FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL 90d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse bool "Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary" 91d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse depends on FW_LOADER 92d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse default y 93d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse help 94d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs' 95113647a2Smatt mooney that are used by various drivers. The recommended way to 96156faf90Smatt mooney use these is to run "make firmware_install", which, after 97156faf90Smatt mooney converting ihex files to binary, copies all of the needed 98156faf90Smatt mooney binary files in firmware/ to /lib/firmware/ on your system so 99d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse that they can be loaded by userspace helpers on request. 100d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse 101d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob 102d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find 103d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse them without having to call out to userspace. This may be 104113647a2Smatt mooney useful if your root file system requires a device that uses 105113647a2Smatt mooney such firmware and do not wish to use an initrd. 106d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse 107d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse This single option controls the inclusion of firmware for 108113647a2Smatt mooney every driver that uses request_firmware() and ships its 109113647a2Smatt mooney firmware in the kernel source tree, which avoids a 110113647a2Smatt mooney proliferation of 'Include firmware for xxx device' options. 111d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse 112d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse Say 'N' and let firmware be loaded from userspace. 113d172e7f5SDavid Woodhouse 1144d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouseconfig EXTRA_FIRMWARE 1154d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse string "External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary" 1164d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse depends on FW_LOADER 1174d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse help 118113647a2Smatt mooney This option allows firmware to be built into the kernel for the case 119113647a2Smatt mooney where the user either cannot or doesn't want to provide it from 1204d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse userspace at runtime (for example, when the firmware in question is 1214d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse required for accessing the boot device, and the user doesn't want to 1224d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse use an initrd). 1234d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse 124113647a2Smatt mooney This option is a string and takes the (space-separated) names of the 125113647a2Smatt mooney firmware files -- the same names that appear in MODULE_FIRMWARE() 1264d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse and request_firmware() in the source. These files should exist under 1274d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse the directory specified by the EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR option, which is 128113647a2Smatt mooney by default the firmware subdirectory of the kernel source tree. 1294d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse 130113647a2Smatt mooney For example, you might set CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="usb8388.bin", copy 131113647a2Smatt mooney the usb8388.bin file into the firmware directory, and build the kernel. 132113647a2Smatt mooney Then any request_firmware("usb8388.bin") will be satisfied internally 133113647a2Smatt mooney without needing to call out to userspace. 1344d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse 1354d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse WARNING: If you include additional firmware files into your binary 136113647a2Smatt mooney kernel image that are not available under the terms of the GPL, 1374d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse then it may be a violation of the GPL to distribute the resulting 138113647a2Smatt mooney image since it combines both GPL and non-GPL work. You should 1394d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse consult a lawyer of your own before distributing such an image. 1404d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse 1414d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouseconfig EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR 1424d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse string "Firmware blobs root directory" 1434d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse depends on EXTRA_FIRMWARE != "" 144df85b2d7SMarkus Trippelsdorf default "/lib/firmware" 1454d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse help 1464d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse This option controls the directory in which the kernel build system 1474d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse looks for the firmware files listed in the EXTRA_FIRMWARE option. 1484d2acfbfSDavid Woodhouse 1497b1269f7STakashi Iwaiconfig FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER 1505a1379e8STakashi Iwai bool 1515a1379e8STakashi Iwai 1525a1379e8STakashi Iwaiconfig FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK 1537b1269f7STakashi Iwai bool "Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading" 1547b1269f7STakashi Iwai depends on FW_LOADER 1555a1379e8STakashi Iwai select FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER 1567b1269f7STakashi Iwai help 1577b1269f7STakashi Iwai This option enables / disables the invocation of user-helper 1587b1269f7STakashi Iwai (e.g. udev) for loading firmware files as a fallback after the 1597b1269f7STakashi Iwai direct file loading in kernel fails. The user-mode helper is 1607b1269f7STakashi Iwai no longer required unless you have a special firmware file that 1615a1379e8STakashi Iwai resides in a non-standard path. Moreover, the udev support has 1625a1379e8STakashi Iwai been deprecated upstream. 1635a1379e8STakashi Iwai 1645a1379e8STakashi Iwai If you are unsure about this, say N here. 1657b1269f7STakashi Iwai 166833c9545SJohannes Bergconfig WANT_DEV_COREDUMP 167833c9545SJohannes Berg bool 168833c9545SJohannes Berg help 169833c9545SJohannes Berg Drivers should "select" this option if they desire to use the 170833c9545SJohannes Berg device coredump mechanism. 171833c9545SJohannes Berg 172cd3d9ea1SJohannes Bergconfig ALLOW_DEV_COREDUMP 173cd3d9ea1SJohannes Berg bool "Allow device coredump" if EXPERT 1749c602699SAristeu Rozanski default y 175833c9545SJohannes Berg help 1769c602699SAristeu Rozanski This option controls if the device coredump mechanism is available or 1779c602699SAristeu Rozanski not; if disabled, the mechanism will be omitted even if drivers that 1789c602699SAristeu Rozanski can use it are enabled. 1799c602699SAristeu Rozanski Say 'N' for more sensitive systems or systems that don't want 1809c602699SAristeu Rozanski to ever access the information to not have the code, nor keep any 1819c602699SAristeu Rozanski data. 182833c9545SJohannes Berg 1839c602699SAristeu Rozanski If unsure, say Y. 184833c9545SJohannes Berg 185833c9545SJohannes Bergconfig DEV_COREDUMP 186833c9545SJohannes Berg bool 187833c9545SJohannes Berg default y if WANT_DEV_COREDUMP 188cd3d9ea1SJohannes Berg depends on ALLOW_DEV_COREDUMP 189833c9545SJohannes Berg 1901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DEBUG_DRIVER 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Driver Core verbose debug messages" 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want the Driver core to produce a bunch of 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds debug messages to the system log. Select this if you are having a 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds problem with the driver core and want to see more of what is 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds going on. 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are unsure about this, say N here. 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2019ac7849eSTejun Heoconfig DEBUG_DEVRES 2029ac7849eSTejun Heo bool "Managed device resources verbose debug messages" 2039ac7849eSTejun Heo depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2049ac7849eSTejun Heo help 2059ac7849eSTejun Heo This option enables kernel parameter devres.log. If set to 2069ac7849eSTejun Heo non-zero, devres debug messages are printed. Select this if 2079ac7849eSTejun Heo you are having a problem with devres or want to debug 2089ac7849eSTejun Heo resource management for a managed device. devres.log can be 2099ac7849eSTejun Heo switched on and off from sysfs node. 2109ac7849eSTejun Heo 2119ac7849eSTejun Heo If you are unsure about this, Say N here. 2129ac7849eSTejun Heo 213bea5b158SRob Herringconfig DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE 214248ff021SLaura Abbott bool "Test driver remove calls during probe (UNSTABLE)" 215bea5b158SRob Herring depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 216bea5b158SRob Herring help 217bea5b158SRob Herring Say Y here if you want the Driver core to test driver remove functions 218bea5b158SRob Herring by calling probe, remove, probe. This tests the remove path without 219bea5b158SRob Herring having to unbind the driver or unload the driver module. 220bea5b158SRob Herring 221248ff021SLaura Abbott This option is expected to find errors and may render your system 222248ff021SLaura Abbott unusable. You should say N here unless you are explicitly looking to 223248ff021SLaura Abbott test this functionality. 224bea5b158SRob Herring 22579543cf2SDmitry Torokhovsource "drivers/base/test/Kconfig" 22679543cf2SDmitry Torokhov 2274039483fSMichael Holzheuconfig SYS_HYPERVISOR 2284039483fSMichael Holzheu bool 2294039483fSMichael Holzheu default n 230eba6cd67SRandy Dunlap 2319f13a1fdSBen Hutchingsconfig GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES 2329f13a1fdSBen Hutchings bool 2339f13a1fdSBen Hutchings default n 2349f13a1fdSBen Hutchings 23567bad2fdSArd Biesheuvelconfig GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE 23667bad2fdSArd Biesheuvel bool 23767bad2fdSArd Biesheuvel 23874d1d82cSLee Jonesconfig SOC_BUS 23974d1d82cSLee Jones bool 240c97db7ccSArnd Bergmann select GLOB 24174d1d82cSLee Jones 242b83a313bSMark Brownsource "drivers/base/regmap/Kconfig" 243b83a313bSMark Brown 244d15bd7eeSSumit Semwalconfig DMA_SHARED_BUFFER 2453b32a592SDave Airlie bool 246d15bd7eeSSumit Semwal default n 247d15bd7eeSSumit Semwal select ANON_INODES 248d15bd7eeSSumit Semwal help 249d15bd7eeSSumit Semwal This option enables the framework for buffer-sharing between 250d15bd7eeSSumit Semwal multiple drivers. A buffer is associated with a file using driver 251d15bd7eeSSumit Semwal APIs extension; the file's descriptor can then be passed on to other 252d15bd7eeSSumit Semwal driver. 253d15bd7eeSSumit Semwal 254f54d1867SChris Wilsonconfig DMA_FENCE_TRACE 255f54d1867SChris Wilson bool "Enable verbose DMA_FENCE_TRACE messages" 256e941759cSMaarten Lankhorst depends on DMA_SHARED_BUFFER 257e941759cSMaarten Lankhorst help 258f54d1867SChris Wilson Enable the DMA_FENCE_TRACE printks. This will add extra 259e941759cSMaarten Lankhorst spam to the console log, but will make it easier to diagnose 260e941759cSMaarten Lankhorst lockup related problems for dma-buffers shared across multiple 261e941759cSMaarten Lankhorst devices. 262e941759cSMaarten Lankhorst 263f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig DMA_CMA 264f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "DMA Contiguous Memory Allocator" 265f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS && CMA 266c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski help 267c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows drivers 268c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory for use with 269c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski hardware components that do not support I/O map nor scatter-gather. 270c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 271f0d6d1f6SJean Delvare You can disable CMA by specifying "cma=0" on the kernel's command 272f0d6d1f6SJean Delvare line. 273f0d6d1f6SJean Delvare 274c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski For more information see <include/linux/dma-contiguous.h>. 275c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski If unsure, say "n". 276c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 277f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vif DMA_CMA 278c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskicomment "Default contiguous memory area size:" 279c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 280c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig CMA_SIZE_MBYTES 281c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski int "Size in Mega Bytes" 282c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski depends on !CMA_SIZE_SEL_PERCENTAGE 283d7be003aSAkinobu Mita default 0 if X86 284c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski default 16 285c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski help 286c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski Defines the size (in MiB) of the default memory area for Contiguous 287d7be003aSAkinobu Mita Memory Allocator. If the size of 0 is selected, CMA is disabled by 288d7be003aSAkinobu Mita default, but it can be enabled by passing cma=size[MG] to the kernel. 289d7be003aSAkinobu Mita 290c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 291c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig CMA_SIZE_PERCENTAGE 292c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski int "Percentage of total memory" 293c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski depends on !CMA_SIZE_SEL_MBYTES 294d7be003aSAkinobu Mita default 0 if X86 295c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski default 10 296c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski help 297c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski Defines the size of the default memory area for Contiguous Memory 298c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski Allocator as a percentage of the total memory in the system. 299d7be003aSAkinobu Mita If 0 percent is selected, CMA is disabled by default, but it can be 300d7be003aSAkinobu Mita enabled by passing cma=size[MG] to the kernel. 301c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 302c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskichoice 303c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski prompt "Selected region size" 3045e97f3f9SLaurent Pinchart default CMA_SIZE_SEL_MBYTES 305c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 306c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig CMA_SIZE_SEL_MBYTES 307c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool "Use mega bytes value only" 308c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 309c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig CMA_SIZE_SEL_PERCENTAGE 310c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool "Use percentage value only" 311c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 312c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig CMA_SIZE_SEL_MIN 313c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool "Use lower value (minimum)" 314c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 315c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig CMA_SIZE_SEL_MAX 316c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool "Use higher value (maximum)" 317c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 318c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiendchoice 319c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 320c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig CMA_ALIGNMENT 321c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski int "Maximum PAGE_SIZE order of alignment for contiguous buffers" 322fe54b1fdSMarc Carino range 4 12 323c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski default 8 324c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski help 325c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski DMA mapping framework by default aligns all buffers to the smallest 326c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski PAGE_SIZE order which is greater than or equal to the requested buffer 327c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski size. This works well for buffers up to a few hundreds kilobytes, but 328c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski for larger buffers it just a memory waste. With this parameter you can 329c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski specify the maximum PAGE_SIZE order for contiguous buffers. Larger 330c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski buffers will be aligned only to this specified order. The order is 331c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski expressed as a power of two multiplied by the PAGE_SIZE. 332c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 333c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski For example, if your system defaults to 4KiB pages, the order value 334c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski of 8 means that the buffers will be aligned up to 1MiB only. 335c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 336c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski If unsure, leave the default value "8". 337c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 338c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiendif 339c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 3402ef7a295SJuri Lelliconfig GENERIC_ARCH_TOPOLOGY 3412ef7a295SJuri Lelli bool 3422ef7a295SJuri Lelli help 3432ef7a295SJuri Lelli Enable support for architectures common topology code: e.g., parsing 3442ef7a295SJuri Lelli CPU capacity information from DT, usage of such information for 3452ef7a295SJuri Lelli appropriate scaling, sysfs interface for changing capacity values at 3462ef7a295SJuri Lelli runtime. 3472ef7a295SJuri Lelli 348eba6cd67SRandy Dunlapendmenu 349