1daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 36840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 4ffee0de4SDavid Woodhouse default ARCH != "i386" 58f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 7daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 8daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 103120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 113120e25eSJan Beulich depends on !64BIT 1282491451SRussell King select CLKSRC_I8253 13af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 163120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 173120e25eSJan Beulich depends on 64BIT 184692d77fSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 19bc08b449SLinus Torvalds select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF 201032c0baSSam Ravnborg 211032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 233c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 24446f24d1SStephen Boyd select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS 2577fbbc81SMark Salter select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT 26e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 27a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 28cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 29be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if X86_64 30cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 31ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 3242d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 338761f1abSRalf Baechle select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 34cc2067a5SPeter Zijlstra select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 3528b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 363f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 3772d7c3b3SYinghai Lu select HAVE_MEMBLOCK 380608f70cSTejun Heo select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP 39c378ddd5STejun Heo select ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK 401f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 41da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 427c095e46SFUJITA Tomonori select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS 430a2b9a6eSMarek Szyprowski select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if !SWIOTLB 449edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 45c0f7ac3aSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_OPTPROBES 46e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 47e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 48d57c5d51SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 49cf4db259SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 50677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 5106aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 52606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 5348d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 5471e308a2SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST 5560a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 5666700001SJosh Stone select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 577ac57a89SCatalin Marinas select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 58e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 5949793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 6099bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 61323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 6258340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 638d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 64f850c30cSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 652118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 6930314804SLasse Collin select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 7013510997SAlbin Tonnerre select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 71f9b493acSKyungsik Lee select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 720067f129SK.Prasad select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 730102752eSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 7499e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select PERF_EVENTS 75c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 76c5e63197SJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_REGS 77c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 78b69ec42bSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 7999e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select ANON_INODES 80eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB 81eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 822565409fSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 830a4af3b0SPekka Enberg select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK 847c68af6eSAvi Kivity select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 85e39f5602SDavid Daney select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE 8646eb3b64SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 877463449bSCatalin Marinas select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE 88141d55e6SYinghai Lu select SPARSE_IRQ 89c49aa5bdSJan Beulich select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT 903bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 913bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP 92517e4981SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW 93d1748302SMartin Schwidefsky select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST 94c0185808SThomas Gleixner select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING 95e47b65b0SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_BPF_JIT if X86_64 9615626062SGerald Schaefer select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 970a779c57SThomas Gleixner select CLKEVT_I8253 98df013ffbSHuang Ying select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 994673ca8eSMichael S. Tsirkin select GENERIC_IOMAP 100e419b4ccSLinus Torvalds select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS 1017eb43a6dSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 102c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if X86_32 103c6cfbeb4SWill Drewry select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 1048b5ad472SDavid Daney select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 105bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 1060f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 107bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 108bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 109bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA if X86_64 110bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 111bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL if X86_64 112bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select KTIME_SCALAR if X86_32 1134ae73f2dSLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER 1145723aa99SLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER 11591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING if X86_64 116fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 1174febd95aSStephen Rothwell select VIRT_TO_BUS 118786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL if X86_32 119786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64 1201d4b4b29SAl Viro select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32 12183a57a4dSDavid Woodhouse select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 12215ce1f71SAl Viro select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 1235b3eb3adSAl Viro select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32 1245b3eb3adSAl Viro select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION 1253195ef59SPrarit Bhargava select RTC_LIB 126d1a1dc0bSDave Hansen select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 127a2cd11f7SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64 128*19952a92SKees Cook select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1297d8330a5SBalbir Singh 130ba7e4d13SIngo Molnarconfig INSTRUCTION_DECODER 1313120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1323120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES 133ba7e4d13SIngo Molnar 13451b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 13551b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 13651b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 13751b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 13851b26adaSLinus Torvalds 13973531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 140b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 14173531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 14273531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 143b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 1448d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1453c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1468d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1478d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1483c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 150aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 151aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 152aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 1538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 1543c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1593bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 1603120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1613120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || INTEL_IOMMU || DMA_API_DEBUG 1623bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonori 16318e98307SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH 1644a14d84eSAndrew Morton def_bool y 16518e98307SFUJITA Tomonori 1668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 1673120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1683120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 1713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 173b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 174b93a531eSJan Beulich 175b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 176b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1823120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1833120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1851032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1863120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1871032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1881032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1891032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1901032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1919a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1929a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1941b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1951b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1961b27d05bSPekka Enberg 197fad12ac8SThomas Renningerconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE 198fad12ac8SThomas Renninger def_bool y 199fad12ac8SThomas Renninger 200dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 20189c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 202b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 20308fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 20408fc4580STejun Heo def_bool y 20508fc4580STejun Heo 20608fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 20711124411STejun Heo def_bool y 20811124411STejun Heo 209801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 210801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 211801e4062SJohannes Berg 212f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 213f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 214f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 215cfe28c5dSSteve Capperconfig ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 216cfe28c5dSSteve Capper def_bool y 217cfe28c5dSSteve Capper 21853313b2cSSteve Capperconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 21953313b2cSSteve Capper def_bool y 22053313b2cSSteve Capper 2218d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 2228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 2268d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2278d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 229765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 230765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 231765c68bdSIngo Molnar 2326a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 2336a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 2346a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 23569575d38SShane Wangconfig HAVE_INTEL_TXT 23669575d38SShane Wang def_bool y 2376ea30386SKees Cook depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI 23869575d38SShane Wang 2396b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 2406b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2416b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 2426b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2436b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 2446b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2456b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 2466b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2478d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 2486fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 249ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 2508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 251ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 252ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 25360a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 254ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 255d61931d8SBorislav Petkovconfig ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS 256d61931d8SBorislav Petkov string 257d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-ecx -fcall-saved-edx" if X86_32 258d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-rdi -fcall-saved-rsi -fcall-saved-rdx -fcall-saved-rcx -fcall-saved-r8 -fcall-saved-r9 -fcall-saved-r10 -fcall-saved-r11" if X86_64 259d61931d8SBorislav Petkov 2602b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 2612b144498SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool y 2622b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 263506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 264dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 266506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2685ee71535SRandy Dunlapconfig ZONE_DMA 2695ee71535SRandy Dunlap bool "DMA memory allocation support" if EXPERT 2705ee71535SRandy Dunlap default y 2715ee71535SRandy Dunlap help 2725ee71535SRandy Dunlap DMA memory allocation support allows devices with less than 32-bit 2735ee71535SRandy Dunlap addressing to allocate within the first 16MB of address space. 2745ee71535SRandy Dunlap Disable if no such devices will be used. 2755ee71535SRandy Dunlap 2765ee71535SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 2775ee71535SRandy Dunlap 278506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 300395cf969SPaul Bolle See also <file:Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 30606cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 30706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 308d3f13810SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP 30906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 31006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 31106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 31206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 31306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 31406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 31506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 31606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 3176695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 3186e87f9b7SBin Gao bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI 3197a527688SJan Beulich default y 3205ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 3218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3226695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 3236695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 3246695c85bSYinghai Lu 32526f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 32626f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 32726f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 3288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 32926f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 330506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 331ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig GOLDFISH 332ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima def_bool y 333ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima depends on X86_GOLDFISH 334ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 3358425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 336c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 337c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 338c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3398f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 34006ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 34106ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 34206ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 34306ac8346SIngo Molnar 3448425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3458425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 346cb7b8023SBen Hutchings Goldfish (Android emulator) 3478425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3488425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3498425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3508425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 35183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11-based (e.g. Northville) 3528425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Summit/EXA (IBM x440) 3538425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Unisys ES7000 IA32 series 3543f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown MID devices 35506ac8346SIngo Molnar 35606ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 35706ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3588425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 35906ac8346SIngo Molnar 3608425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3618425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3628425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3638425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3648425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3658425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3668425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3678425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3688425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3698425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3708425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 37144b111b5SSteffen Persvold Numascale NumaChip 3728425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3738425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3748425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3758425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3768425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3778425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 378c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 379c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 38044b111b5SSteffen Persvoldconfig X86_NUMACHIP 38144b111b5SSteffen Persvold bool "Numascale NumaChip" 38244b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_64 38344b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 38444b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on NUMA 38544b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on SMP 38644b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_X2APIC 387f9726bfdSDaniel J Blueman depends on PCI_MMCONFIG 38844b111b5SSteffen Persvold ---help--- 38944b111b5SSteffen Persvold Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to 39044b111b5SSteffen Persvold enable more than ~168 cores. 39144b111b5SSteffen Persvold If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 39203b48632SNick Piggin 3936a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 394c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3956276a074SBorislav Petkov select HYPERVISOR_GUEST 3966a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3976a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 398c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 399ead91d4bSShai Fultheim depends on SMP 4008f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4016a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 4026a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 4036a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 4046a48565eSIngo Molnar 405c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 406c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 407c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 408c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 40954c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 4109d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 411c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 412c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 413c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 414c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 415c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 416c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 418ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig X86_GOLDFISH 419ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)" 420ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima depends on X86_32 421cb7b8023SBen Hutchings depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 422ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima ---help--- 423ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily 424ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android 425ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Goldfish emulator say N here. 426ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 427c751e17bSThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_INTEL_CE 428c751e17bSThomas Gleixner bool "CE4100 TV platform" 429c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI 430c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI_GODIRECT 431c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 432c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 43337bc9f50SDirk Brandewie select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 434da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF 435da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE 436b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 437c751e17bSThomas Gleixner ---help--- 438c751e17bSThomas Gleixner Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC. 439c751e17bSThomas Gleixner This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop 440c751e17bSThomas Gleixner boxes and media devices. 441c751e17bSThomas Gleixner 442dd137525SAlan Coxconfig X86_WANT_INTEL_MID 44343605ef1SAlan Cox bool "Intel MID platform support" 44443605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_32 44543605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 44643605ef1SAlan Cox ---help--- 44743605ef1SAlan Cox Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID platform 44843605ef1SAlan Cox systems which do not have the PCI legacy interfaces (Moorestown, 44943605ef1SAlan Cox Medfield). If you are building for a PC class system say N here. 45043605ef1SAlan Cox 451dd137525SAlan Coxif X86_WANT_INTEL_MID 45243605ef1SAlan Cox 4534e2b1c4fSAlan Coxconfig X86_INTEL_MID 4544e2b1c4fSAlan Cox bool 4554e2b1c4fSAlan Cox 4561ea7c673SAlan Coxconfig X86_MDFLD 4571ea7c673SAlan Cox bool "Medfield MID platform" 4581ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI 4591ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI_GOANY 4601ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on X86_IO_APIC 4617c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select X86_INTEL_MID 4627c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select SFI 4637c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select DW_APB_TIMER 4641ea7c673SAlan Cox select APB_TIMER 4651ea7c673SAlan Cox select I2C 4661ea7c673SAlan Cox select SPI 4671ea7c673SAlan Cox select INTEL_SCU_IPC 4681ea7c673SAlan Cox select X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 46915a713dfSMika Westerberg select MFD_INTEL_MSIC 4701ea7c673SAlan Cox ---help--- 4711ea7c673SAlan Cox Medfield is Intel's Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) based Moblin 4721ea7c673SAlan Cox Internet Device(MID) platform. 4731ea7c673SAlan Cox Unlike standard x86 PCs, Medfield does not have many legacy devices 4741ea7c673SAlan Cox nor standard legacy replacement devices/features. e.g. Medfield does 4751ea7c673SAlan Cox not contain i8259, i8254, HPET, legacy BIOS, most of the io ports. 4761ea7c673SAlan Cox 47743605ef1SAlan Coxendif 47843605ef1SAlan Cox 4793d48aab1SMika Westerbergconfig X86_INTEL_LPSS 4803d48aab1SMika Westerberg bool "Intel Low Power Subsystem Support" 4813d48aab1SMika Westerberg depends on ACPI 4823d48aab1SMika Westerberg select COMMON_CLK 4830f531431SMathias Nyman select PINCTRL 4843d48aab1SMika Westerberg ---help--- 4853d48aab1SMika Westerberg Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as 4863d48aab1SMika Westerberg found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables 4870f531431SMathias Nyman things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol 4880f531431SMathias Nyman which are needed by the LPSS peripheral drivers. 4893d48aab1SMika Westerberg 490c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 491c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 493c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 494c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 495c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 496c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 497c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 498c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 499c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 500c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 501e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 5029c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 5039c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 504c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 5058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 50683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, 50783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11, default subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic 50883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini binary kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it 50983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini one by one and will fallback to default. 510d49c4288SYinghai Lu 511c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 512d49c4288SYinghai Lu 513506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 515e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 516a92d152eSPan, Jacob jun depends on PCI 517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 5189c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 5198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 520d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 521d49c4288SYinghai Lu NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 522d49c4288SYinghai Lu bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 523d49c4288SYinghai Lu of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 524d49c4288SYinghai Lu firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 525506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 526d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 5276fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 528d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 529d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_MCE 530d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 531d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on !X86_NUMAQ 532d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 533d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 534d949f36fSLinus Torvalds select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 535d949f36fSLinus Torvalds 5361b84e1c8SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VISWS 5371b84e1c8SIngo Molnar bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 538c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 539c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 540c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 5411b84e1c8SIngo Molnar The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 5421b84e1c8SIngo Molnar based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 5431b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 5441b84e1c8SIngo Molnar Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 5451b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 5461b84e1c8SIngo Molnar A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 5471b84e1c8SIngo Molnar PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 5481b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 54983125a3aSAlessandro Rubiniconfig STA2X11 55083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini bool "STA2X11 Companion Chip Support" 55183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && PCI 55283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 55383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DMA_REMAP 55483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select SWIOTLB 55583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select MFD_STA2X11 55683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB 55783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini default n 55883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini ---help--- 55983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub, 56083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard 56183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this 56283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini option is selected the kernel will still be able to boot on 56383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini standard PC machines. 56483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini 5659c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 5669c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 567e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 5688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5699c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 5709c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 5711f972768SIngo Molnar 5729c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 573c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 57426f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 5758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5769c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 5779c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 5789c398017SIngo Molnar 57982148d1dSShérabconfig X86_32_IRIS 58082148d1dSShérab tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module" 58182148d1dSShérab depends on X86_32 58282148d1dSShérab ---help--- 58382148d1dSShérab The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support 58482148d1dSShérab to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is 58582148d1dSShérab needed to do so, which is what this module does at 58682148d1dSShérab kernel shutdown. 58782148d1dSShérab 58882148d1dSShérab This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille. 58982148d1dSShérab 59082148d1dSShérab If unused, say N. 59182148d1dSShérab 592ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 5933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 595a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 5968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 600506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 602506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 603506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6046276a074SBorislav Petkovmenuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST 6056276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Linux guest support" 6068f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6076276a074SBorislav Petkov Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper- 6086276a074SBorislav Petkov visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform 6096276a074SBorislav Petkov setup. 610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6116276a074SBorislav Petkov If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 6126276a074SBorislav Petkov disabled, and Linux guest support won't be built in. 613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6146276a074SBorislav Petkovif HYPERVISOR_GUEST 615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 616e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 617e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 6188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 619e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 620e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 621e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 622e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 623e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 6246276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 6256276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 6266276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 6276276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6286276a074SBorislav Petkov Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 6296276a074SBorislav Petkov a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 6306276a074SBorislav Petkov 631b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 632b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 6336ea30386SKees Cook depends on PARAVIRT && SMP 6348db73266SRaghavendra K T select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 635b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 636b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 637b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 638b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 639b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 6404c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T It has a minimal impact on native kernels and gives a nice performance 6414c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T benefit on paravirtualized KVM / Xen kernels. 642b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 6434c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y. 644b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 6456276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 6466276a074SBorislav Petkov 6476276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig KVM_GUEST 6486276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)" 6496276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 6506276a074SBorislav Petkov select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 6516276a074SBorislav Petkov default y 6526276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6536276a074SBorislav Petkov This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 6546276a074SBorislav Petkov hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead 6556276a074SBorislav Petkov of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the 6566276a074SBorislav Petkov underlying device model, the host provides the guest with 6576276a074SBorislav Petkov timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time 6586276a074SBorislav Petkov 6591e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig KVM_DEBUG_FS 6601e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Enable debug information for KVM Guests in debugfs" 6611e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on KVM_GUEST && DEBUG_FS 6621e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri default n 6631e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri ---help--- 6641e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option enables collection of various statistics for KVM guest. 6651e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Statistics are displayed in debugfs filesystem. Enabling this option 6661e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri may incur significant overhead. 6671e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 6686276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 6696276a074SBorislav Petkov 6706276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 6716276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" 6726276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 6736276a074SBorislav Petkov default n 6746276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6756276a074SBorislav Petkov Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time 6766276a074SBorislav Petkov accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with 6776276a074SBorislav Petkov the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for 6786276a074SBorislav Petkov that, there can be a small performance impact. 6796276a074SBorislav Petkov 6806276a074SBorislav Petkov If in doubt, say N here. 6816276a074SBorislav Petkov 6827af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 6837af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 6847af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 6856276a074SBorislav Petkovendif #HYPERVISOR_GUEST 68697349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 68708677214SYinghai Luconfig NO_BOOTMEM 688774ea0bcSYinghai Lu def_bool y 68908677214SYinghai Lu 69003273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 69103273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 6928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 693c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 69403273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 69503273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 69603273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 69703273184SYinghai Lu ... 69803273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 699aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 701506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 7023c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 703e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 704506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 705506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 7063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 707f9b15df4SAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_SUMMIT 708506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 709506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 711506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 7123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 713506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 7148f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 717506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 722e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 7313c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7329d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 734bb24c471SJacob Panconfig APB_TIMER 735933b9463SAlan Cox def_bool y if X86_INTEL_MID 736933b9463SAlan Cox prompt "Intel MID APB Timer Support" if X86_INTEL_MID 73706c3df49SJamie Iles select DW_APB_TIMER 738a0c3832aSAlan Cox depends on X86_INTEL_MID && SFI 739bb24c471SJacob Pan help 740bb24c471SJacob Pan APB timer is the replacement for 8254, HPET on X86 MID platforms. 741bb24c471SJacob Pan The APBT provides a stable time base on SMP 742bb24c471SJacob Pan systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 743bb24c471SJacob Pan as it is off-chip. APB timers are always running regardless of CPU 744bb24c471SJacob Pan C states, they are used as per CPU clockevent device when possible. 745bb24c471SJacob Pan 7466a108a14SDavid Rientjes# Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong. 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 7487ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 7497ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 7506a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT 7518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 7527ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 7537ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 7547ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 7557ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 7567ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 75838901f1cSAndi Kleen bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support" 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 76023ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmann depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB 7618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 762ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron 763ced3c42cSIngo Molnar GART based hardware IOMMUs. 764ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 765ced3c42cSIngo Molnar The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access 766ced3c42cSIngo Molnar limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed 767ced3c42cSIngo Molnar for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 768ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 769ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via 770ced3c42cSIngo Molnar the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option. 771ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 772ced3c42cSIngo Molnar In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed: 773ced3c42cSIngo Molnar there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a 774ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 32-bit limited device. 775ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 776ced3c42cSIngo Molnar If unsure, say Y. 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 7816ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && PCI 7828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 796506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 7973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7983c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 8008f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 809a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 8108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 8124454d327SJoe Millenbach which don't have a hardware IOMMU. Using this PCI devices 8134454d327SJoe Millenbach which can only access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems 8144454d327SJoe Millenbach with more than 3 GB of memory. 8154454d327SJoe Millenbach If unsure, say Y. 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 817a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 8183120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 8193120e25eSJan Beulich depends on CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU 820d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 8211184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 822ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 8236ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL 82436f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 8258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 826ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 8271184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 83036f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 8312a3313f4SMichael K. Johnson range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP 832bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 833b53b5edaSJosh Boyer range 2 8192 if SMP && !MAXSMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK && X86_64 83478637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 835b53b5edaSJosh Boyer default "8192" if MAXSMP 83678637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 83778637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 8388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 840bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum 841bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer supported value is 4096, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 845506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 846506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 847506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 848506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 849b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 8508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 852506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 853506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 856506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 8573c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 859b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 8608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 861506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 862506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 864506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 865506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 866506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 868506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 8690dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD && !PCI_MSI 8708f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 871506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 872506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 873506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 878506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 8838f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 886506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 887506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 889506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 892506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 8933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8940dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC || PCI_MSI 895506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 896506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 8973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8980dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_IOAPIC || PCI_MSI 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 900506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 9013c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 902506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 903506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 90441b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 90541b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 90641b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 9078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 90841b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 90941b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 91041b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 91141b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 91241b9eb26SStefan Assmann 91341b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 91441b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 91541b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 91641b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 91741b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 91841b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 91941b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 92041b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 92141b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 92241b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 92341b9eb26SStefan Assmann 92441b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 92541b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 92641b9eb26SStefan Assmann 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 928bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 929e57dbaf7SBorislav Petkov default y 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 931bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 932bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 934bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 9354efc0670SAndi Kleen 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 9373c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 9383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 939c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 9408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 9453c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 9463c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 947c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 9488f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9524efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 9536fc108a0SJan Beulich bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 954c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 9554efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 9564efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 9574efc0670SAndi Kleen systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitely on the command 9584efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 9594efc0670SAndi Kleen 960b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 961b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 9626fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 963b2762686SAndi Kleen 964ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 965c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE 966ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 967ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 968ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 969ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 970ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 971ea149b36SAndi Kleen 9724efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 9734efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 9745bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 9754efc0670SAndi Kleen 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 9776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM86 support" if EXPERT 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9808f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 1004949a9d70SJean Delvare select HWMON 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 1019506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1020506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 1021506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1022506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1023506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 10249ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 10259ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 1026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 1031506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1033506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 10345e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 1041e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov tristate "CPU microcode loading support" 104280030e3dSBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1045e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 104780cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 1048e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, 1049e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov Xeon etc. The AMD support is for families 0x10 and later. You will 1050e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself which is not 1051e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov shipped with the Linux kernel. 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10538d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 10548d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1056e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1057e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov will be called microcode. 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10598d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 1060e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "Intel microcode loading support" 10618d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 10628d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 10638d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10648f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10658d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 10668d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 10678d86f390SPeter Oruba 10688d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 10698d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 10708d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 10718d86f390SPeter Oruba 107280cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 1073e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "AMD microcode loading support" 107480cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 107580cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 107780cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 107880cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 107980cc9f10SPeter Oruba 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 10813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1084da76f64eSFenghua Yuconfig MICROCODE_INTEL_LIB 1085da76f64eSFenghua Yu def_bool y 1086da76f64eSFenghua Yu depends on MICROCODE_INTEL 1087da76f64eSFenghua Yu 1088da76f64eSFenghua Yuconfig MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY 1089757885e9SJacob Shin def_bool n 1090757885e9SJacob Shin 1091757885e9SJacob Shinconfig MICROCODE_AMD_EARLY 1092757885e9SJacob Shin def_bool n 1093757885e9SJacob Shin 1094757885e9SJacob Shinconfig MICROCODE_EARLY 1095da76f64eSFenghua Yu bool "Early load microcode" 10966b3389acSJacob Shin depends on MICROCODE=y && BLK_DEV_INITRD 1097757885e9SJacob Shin select MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY if MICROCODE_INTEL 1098757885e9SJacob Shin select MICROCODE_AMD_EARLY if MICROCODE_AMD 1099da76f64eSFenghua Yu default y 1100da76f64eSFenghua Yu help 1101da76f64eSFenghua Yu This option provides functionality to read additional microcode data 1102da76f64eSFenghua Yu at the beginning of initrd image. The data tells kernel to load 1103da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode to CPU's as early as possible. No functional change if no 1104da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode data is glued to the initrd, therefore it's safe to say Y. 1105da76f64eSFenghua Yu 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 11088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 11178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 11266fc108a0SJan Beulich default HIGHMEM4G 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1166506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 1168506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 11698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1170506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1171506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1172506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1173506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1174506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1175eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin depends on !M486 1176506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 11778f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1178506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1179506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1180506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 11846a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT 1185506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1186506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 11878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1188506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1191506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1193506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1194506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1195506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1196506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1197506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1198506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1199506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1200506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1201506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1203506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1205506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1208506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1217506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1226506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 12273c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1230506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 12319ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 12338f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1239600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 12403120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 12413120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 1242600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 124366f2b061SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT 12443120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 12453120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G 124666f2b061SFUJITA Tomonori 12479e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 12486a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EXPERT 12499e899816SNick Piggin default y 12509e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 12518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12529e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 12539e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 12549e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 12559e899816SNick Piggin 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1258fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 12606ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI)) 12610699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 12628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1264fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1269c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1270fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1271fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1272fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1273fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1274fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1275fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1276fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1278506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1281eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeldconfig AMD_NUMA 12823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 12845da0ef9aSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 12858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1286eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1287eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to 1288eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge 1289eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead, 1290eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 12978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13006ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 13016ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 13026ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 13036ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 13046ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 13056ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 13066ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 13076ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 13086ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1309506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 13111b7e03efSTejun Heo depends on NUMA 13128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1315506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1316506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1317506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1318d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 131951591e31SDavid Rientjes range 1 10 132051591e31SDavid Rientjes default "10" if MAXSMP 1321506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1322506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1323506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1324506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 13258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13261184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1327692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1328506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1329506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 13303c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1332506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1333506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 13343c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1335506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1336506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1337506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1338506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 13393b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !NUMA 1340506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1341506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1342506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1343b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1344506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1345506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1346506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1347b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1348b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1349506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1350506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 13516ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 || NUMA || X86_32 || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1353506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13553b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 13563b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 13573b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 13583b16651fSTejun Heo 1359506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1360506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1361b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1362506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1363506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1364a0842b70SToshi Kani bool "Enable sysfs memory/probe interface" 13653120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1366a0842b70SToshi Kani help 1367a0842b70SToshi Kani This option enables a sysfs memory/probe interface for testing. 1368a0842b70SToshi Kani See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information. 1369a0842b70SToshi Kani If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13713b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 13723b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 13733b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 13743b16651fSTejun Heo 1375a29815a3SAvi Kivityconfig ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1376a29815a3SAvi Kivity hex 1377a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0 if X86_32 1378a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1379a29815a3SAvi Kivity 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 13846fc108a0SJan Beulich depends on HIGHMEM 13858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13919f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 13929f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 13938f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13949f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 13959f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 13969f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 13979f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 13989f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 13999f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 14009f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 14019f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 14029f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 14039f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 14049f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 14059f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 14069f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 14079f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 14089f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 14099f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 14109f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 14119f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 14129f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1413c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1414c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1415c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1416c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 14178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1418c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1419c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1420c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 14219ea77bdbSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW 1422d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS" 1423d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64 1424d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin range 4 640 14258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1426d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS. 1427fc381519SIngo Molnar 1428d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel 1429d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin must not use, so that page must always be reserved. 1430fc381519SIngo Molnar 1431d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin By default we reserve the first 64K of physical RAM, as a 1432d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin number of BIOSes are known to corrupt that memory range 1433d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin during events such as suspend/resume or monitor cable 1434d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin insertion, so it must not be used by the kernel. 1435fc381519SIngo Molnar 1436d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin You can set this to 4 if you are absolutely sure that you 1437d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin trust the BIOS to get all its memory reservations and usages 1438d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin right. If you know your BIOS have problems beyond the 1439d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64K area, you can set this to 640 to avoid using the 1440d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin entire low memory range. 1441d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1442d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does 1443d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin not work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware 1444d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin hotplug events) then you might want to enable 1445d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check 1446d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin typical corruption patterns. 1447d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1448d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Leave this to the default value of 64 if you are unsure. 1449fc381519SIngo Molnar 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 14776fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 14786a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1482506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1485506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15097225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 151195ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 15122ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 151395ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 151495ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 15158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1516aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1517aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 151895ffa243SYinghai Lu 1519aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1520692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1521aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 152295ffa243SYinghai Lu 15232ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 152495ffa243SYinghai Lu 152595ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1526f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1527f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1528f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 152995ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 15308f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1531f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 153295ffa243SYinghai Lu 153312031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 153412031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 153512031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 153612031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 153712031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 15388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 153912031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1540aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 154112031a62SYinghai Lu 15422e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 15436fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 15446a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT 15452a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 15468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 15472e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1548042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 15492e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 15502e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 15512e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 15522e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1553042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 15542e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 15552e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 15562e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 155746cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED 155846cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 155946cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi depends on X86_PAT 156046cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1561628c6246SH. Peter Anvinconfig ARCH_RANDOM 1562628c6246SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1563628c6246SH. Peter Anvin prompt "x86 architectural random number generator" if EXPERT 1564628c6246SH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 1565628c6246SH. Peter Anvin Enable the x86 architectural RDRAND instruction 1566628c6246SH. Peter Anvin (Intel Bull Mountain technology) to generate random numbers. 1567628c6246SH. Peter Anvin If supported, this is a high bandwidth, cryptographically 1568628c6246SH. Peter Anvin secure hardware random number generator. 1569628c6246SH. Peter Anvin 157051ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_SMAP 157151ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 157251ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin prompt "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention" if EXPERT 157351ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 157451ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security 157551ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin feature in newer Intel processors. There is a small 157651ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is 157751ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin also a small increase in the kernel size if this is enabled. 157851ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 157951ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin If unsure, say Y. 158051ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 1581506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 15829ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 15835b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1584f6ce5002SSergey Vlasov select UCS2_STRING 1585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15868b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1588506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15898b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 15908b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 15918b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 15928b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 15938b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 15948b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1596291f3632SMatt Flemingconfig EFI_STUB 1597291f3632SMatt Fleming bool "EFI stub support" 1598291f3632SMatt Fleming depends on EFI 1599291f3632SMatt Fleming ---help--- 1600291f3632SMatt Fleming This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly 1601291f3632SMatt Fleming by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. 1602291f3632SMatt Fleming 16034172fe2fSRoy Franz See Documentation/efi-stub.txt for more information. 16040c759662SMatt Fleming 1605506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 16063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 16073c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 16088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 16159c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1617506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1618506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1620506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1621506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1622506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1623506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1624506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 16258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1631506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1632506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1634506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1635bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven initially work for you. As of this writing the exact hardware 1636bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven interface is strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be 1637bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven made. 1638506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1639506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 164004b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1641506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 16428f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1643506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1645506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 16533ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 16546ea30386SKees Cook bool "kexec jump" 1655fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 16568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 165789081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 165889081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 16593ab83521SHuang Ying 1660506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 16616a108a14SDavid Rientjes hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP) 1662ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 16638f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1665506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1667506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1668506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1681ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 1682ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 1683ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 1684ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 1685ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 1686ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 1687ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 1688ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1689ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 1690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1691506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1693506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1694506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1695506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1696506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1697506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1701506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 170226717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 170326717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 17048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1705506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1706506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1707506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1708506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1709506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1711506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1713506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1717506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1718845adf72SH. Peter Anvin# Relocation on x86-32 needs some additional build support 1719845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 1720845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1721845adf72SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_32 && RELOCATABLE 1722845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 1723506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1724a0215061SKees Cook hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" 1725ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 1726a0215061SKees Cook range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32 1727a0215061SKees Cook range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64 17288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1735506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1739506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1745a0215061SKees Cook On 32-bit this value must be a multiple of 0x2000. On 64-bit 1746a0215061SKees Cook this value must be a multiple of 0x200000. 1747a0215061SKees Cook 1748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1749506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1750506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 17517c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 175240b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on SMP 1753506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 17547c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 17557c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 17567c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 17577c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 17587c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 176080aa1dffSFenghua Yuconfig BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 176180aa1dffSFenghua Yu bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable" 176280aa1dffSFenghua Yu default n 17632c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 176480aa1dffSFenghua Yu ---help--- 176580aa1dffSFenghua Yu Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off. 176680aa1dffSFenghua Yu 176780aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say Y here to enable CPU0 hotplug by default. If this switch 176880aa1dffSFenghua Yu is turned on, there is no need to give cpu0_hotplug kernel 176980aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter and the CPU0 hotplug feature is enabled by default. 177080aa1dffSFenghua Yu 177180aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please note: there are two known CPU0 dependencies if you want 177280aa1dffSFenghua Yu to enable the CPU0 hotplug feature either by this switch or by 177380aa1dffSFenghua Yu cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter. 177480aa1dffSFenghua Yu 177580aa1dffSFenghua Yu First, resume from hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. 177680aa1dffSFenghua Yu So hibernate and suspend are prevented if CPU0 is offline. 177780aa1dffSFenghua Yu 177880aa1dffSFenghua Yu Second dependency is PIC interrupts always go to CPU0. CPU0 can not 177980aa1dffSFenghua Yu offline if any interrupt can not migrate out of CPU0. There may 178080aa1dffSFenghua Yu be other CPU0 dependencies. 178180aa1dffSFenghua Yu 178280aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please make sure the dependencies are under your control before 178380aa1dffSFenghua Yu you enable this feature. 178480aa1dffSFenghua Yu 178580aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say N if you don't want to enable CPU0 hotplug feature by default. 178680aa1dffSFenghua Yu You still can enable the CPU0 hotplug feature at boot by kernel 178780aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter cpu0_hotplug. 178880aa1dffSFenghua Yu 1789a71c8bc5SFenghua Yuconfig DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 1790a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu def_bool n 1791a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug" 17922c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1793a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu ---help--- 1794a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as 1795a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User 1796a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu can online CPU0 back after boot time. 1797a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1798a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu To debug CPU0 hotplug, you need to enable CPU0 offline/online 1799a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu feature by either turning on CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 during 1800a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu compilation or giving cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter at boot. 1801a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1802a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu If unsure, say N. 1803a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1804506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 18053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 18063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1807af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 18088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1809af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1810e84446deSRandy Dunlap 1811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1817516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1818516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 18198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1820516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1821516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1822516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1823516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1824516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1825516cbf37STim Bird 1826516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1827516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1828516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1829516cbf37STim Bird 1830516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1831516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1832516cbf37STim Bird 1833516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1834516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1835516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1836516cbf37STim Bird default "" 18378f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1838516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1839516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1840516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1841516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1842516cbf37STim Bird 1843516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1844516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1845516cbf37STim Bird 1846516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1847516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1848516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1849516cbf37STim Bird 1850516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1851516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1852516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 18538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1854516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1855516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1856516cbf37STim Bird 1857516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1858516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1859516cbf37STim Bird 1860506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1861506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1862506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1864506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1865506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 186635551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 186735551053SGary Hade def_bool y 186835551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 186935551053SGary Hade 1870e534c7c5SLee Schermerhornconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 1871645a7919STejun Heo def_bool y 1872e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn depends on NUMA 1873e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn 18749491846fSKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 18759491846fSKirill A. Shutemov def_bool y 18769491846fSKirill A. Shutemov depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 18779491846fSKirill A. Shutemov 1878da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 18813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1888efafc8b2SFeng Tangsource "drivers/sfi/Kconfig" 1889efafc8b2SFeng Tang 1890a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 18916fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 1892282e5aabSPaul Bolle depends on APM 1893a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1896efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 19122dc98fd3SMichael Witten and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.txt> 19132dc98fd3SMichael Witten and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 19578f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1966e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1980dd8af076SLen Brown depends on CPU_IDLE 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 19828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 19938f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 2002e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 2003e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 2005e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 20068f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2007e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 2008e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 2009e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 2010e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 2011e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 2015e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2016bb0a56ecSDave Jonessource "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig" 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 202027471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 202127471fdbSAndy Henroid 2022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2023e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2024e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2025e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2027e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 20281ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 20291c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 20308f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2031e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 2032e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 2033e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 2034e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 2035e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2036e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 2037e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 2038efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 2039e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 2040e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2041e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 2042e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 2043e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 2044e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 2045e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 2046e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2047e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 2048e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 2049e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 2050e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 2051e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 2052e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 2053e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 2054e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2055e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 2056e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 2057e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2058e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 2059e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 2060e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2061e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 2062e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 2063e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20643ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 206576fb6570SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1" 20663ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 20673ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 20682bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 20692bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 20702bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 2071e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 2072e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2073e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 20743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2075efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 2076e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2077e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 2078e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 20793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20800aba496fSShaohua Li depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)) 2081e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2082e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 20833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20845f0db7a2SFeng Tang depends on X86_32 && PCI && (ACPI || SFI) && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 2085e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20863ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 20872bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 20882bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 20893ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2090b5401a96SAlex Nixonconfig PCI_XEN 2091b5401a96SAlex Nixon def_bool y 2092b5401a96SAlex Nixon depends on PCI && XEN 2093b5401a96SAlex Nixon select SWIOTLB_XEN 2094b5401a96SAlex Nixon 2095e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 20963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2097e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 2098e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2099e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 2100e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 2101e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 2102e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21033f6ea84aSIra W. Snyderconfig PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 21046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" if EXPERT 21056ea30386SKees Cook depends on PCI 21063f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder help 21073f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 21083f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 21093f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder not have ACPI. 21103f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder 211164a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality 211264a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas is known to be incomplete. 211364a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 211464a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas You should say N unless you know you need this. 211564a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 2116e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 2117e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2118e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 2119e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21201c00f016SDavid Rientjes# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA. 2121e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 21221c00f016SDavid Rientjes bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT) 21231c00f016SDavid Rientjes default y 21241c00f016SDavid Rientjes help 21251c00f016SDavid Rientjes Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers. 21261c00f016SDavid Rientjes If unsure, say Y. 2127e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2128e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 2129e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2130e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 2131e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 21328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2133e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2134e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2135e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2136e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 2137e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 2138e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2139e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 2140e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 2141e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 2142e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2143e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 2144e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 2145e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2146e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 2147e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 2148e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 2149e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 2150e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2151e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 2152e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2153e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 2154e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2155e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 2156e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2157e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 2158e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 21598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2160e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 2161e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 2162e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 2163e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 2164e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2165e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 2166e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2167e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 2168e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 2169592913ecSJohn Stultz depends on SCx200 2170e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 21718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2172e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 2173e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 2174e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 2175e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 2176e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 2177e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21783ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 21793ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 218054008979SThomas Gleixner depends on !X86_PAE 21813c554946SAndres Salomon select GPIOLIB 2182dc3119e7SThomas Gleixner select OF 218345bb1674SDaniel Drake select OF_PROMTREE 2184b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 21858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 21863ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 21873ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 21883ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2189a3128588SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_PM 2190a3128588SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management" 219197c4cb71SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535 && PM_SLEEP 2192a3128588SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 2193bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake ---help--- 219497c4cb71SDaniel Drake Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop. 2195bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake 2196cfee9597SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_RTC 2197cfee9597SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock" 2198cfee9597SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS 2199cfee9597SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2200cfee9597SDaniel Drake Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a 2201cfee9597SDaniel Drake programmable wakeup source. 2202cfee9597SDaniel Drake 22037feda8e9SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_SCI 22047feda8e9SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras" 2205d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM 2206ed8e47feSRandy Dunlap depends on INPUT=y 2207d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 22087feda8e9SDaniel Drake select GPIO_CS5535 22097feda8e9SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 22107feda8e9SDaniel Drake ---help--- 22117feda8e9SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop: 22127bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 22137feda8e9SDaniel Drake - Power button 22147bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - Ebook switch 22152cf2baeaSDaniel Drake - Lid switch 2216e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2217e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 22187feda8e9SDaniel Drake 2219a0f30f59SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO15_SCI 2220a0f30f59SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras" 2221d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && ACPI 2222d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 2223a0f30f59SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2224a0f30f59SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop: 2225a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 2226a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2227a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 2228e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2229d4f3e350SEd Wildgooseconfig ALIX 2230d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)" 2231d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose select GPIOLIB 2232d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ---help--- 2233d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX. 2234d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on 2235d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should 2236d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose get added here. 2237d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2238d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support 2239d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs 2240d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2241d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS. 2242d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2243da4e3302SPhilip Prindevilleconfig NET5501 2244da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 2245da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville select GPIOLIB 2246da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville ---help--- 2247da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501. 2248da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville 22493197059aSPhilip A. Prindevilleconfig GEOS 22503197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 22513197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville select GPIOLIB 22523197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville depends on DMI 22533197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville ---help--- 22543197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS. 22553197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville 22567d029125SVivien Didelotconfig TS5500 22577d029125SVivien Didelot bool "Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform support" 22587d029125SVivien Didelot depends on MELAN 22597d029125SVivien Didelot select CHECK_SIGNATURE 22607d029125SVivien Didelot select NEW_LEDS 22617d029125SVivien Didelot select LEDS_CLASS 22627d029125SVivien Didelot ---help--- 22637d029125SVivien Didelot This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500. 22647d029125SVivien Didelot 2265e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 2266e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 226723ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmannconfig AMD_NB 2268e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 22690e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 2270e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2271e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 2272e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2273e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 2274e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2275388b78adSAlexandre Bounineconfig RAPIDIO 2276fdf90abcSAlexandre Bounine tristate "RapidIO support" 2277388b78adSAlexandre Bounine depends on PCI 2278388b78adSAlexandre Bounine default n 2279388b78adSAlexandre Bounine help 2280fdf90abcSAlexandre Bounine If enabled this option will include drivers and the core 2281388b78adSAlexandre Bounine infrastructure code to support RapidIO interconnect devices. 2282388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2283388b78adSAlexandre Bouninesource "drivers/rapidio/Kconfig" 2284388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2285e3263ab3SDavid Herrmannconfig X86_SYSFB 2286e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer" 2287e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann help 2288e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS, 2289e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for 2290e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann user-guidance and debugging. Historically, x86 used the VESA BIOS 2291e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Extensions and EFI-framebuffers for this, which are mostly limited 2292e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann to x86. 2293e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann This option, if enabled, marks VGA/VBE/EFI framebuffers as generic 2294e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann framebuffers so the new generic system-framebuffer drivers can be 2295e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann used on x86. If the framebuffer is not compatible with the generic 2296e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann modes, it is adverticed as fallback platform framebuffer so legacy 2297e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann drivers like efifb, vesafb and uvesafb can pick it up. 2298e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If this option is not selected, all system framebuffers are always 2299e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann marked as fallback platform framebuffers as usual. 2300e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2301e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Note: Legacy fbdev drivers, including vesafb, efifb, uvesafb, will 2302e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann not be able to pick up generic system framebuffers if this option 2303e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann is selected. You are highly encouraged to enable simplefb as 2304e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann replacement if you select this option. simplefb can correctly deal 2305e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann with generic system framebuffers. But you should still keep vesafb 2306e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann and others enabled as fallback if a system framebuffer is 2307e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann incompatible with simplefb. 2308e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2309e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If unsure, say Y. 2310e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2311e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2312e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2313e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2314e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 2315e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2316e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 2317e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2318e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2319e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2320e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2321d1603990SRandy Dunlap select BINFMT_ELF 2322a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 2323af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 23248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 23255fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 23265fd92e65SH. J. Lu 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 23275fd92e65SH. J. Lu 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. 2328e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2329e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2330e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 23316b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 23328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2333e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2334e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 23350bf62763SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_X32 23366ea30386SKees Cook bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode" 23376ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION 23385fd92e65SH. J. Lu ---help--- 23395fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI 23405fd92e65SH. J. Lu for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the 23415fd92e65SH. J. Lu full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving 23425fd92e65SH. J. Lu pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint. 23435fd92e65SH. J. Lu 23445fd92e65SH. J. Lu You will need a recent binutils (2.22 or later) with 23455fd92e65SH. J. Lu elf32_x86_64 support enabled to compile a kernel with this 23465fd92e65SH. J. Lu option set. 23475fd92e65SH. J. Lu 2348e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 23493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23500bf62763SH. Peter Anvin depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32 235148b25c43SChris Metcalf select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 2352e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 23533120e25eSJan Beulichif COMPAT 2354e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 23553120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2356e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2357e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 23583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23593120e25eSJan Beulich depends on SYSVIPC 2360e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2361ee009e4aSDavid Howellsconfig KEYS_COMPAT 23623120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 23633120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KEYS 23643120e25eSJan Beulichendif 2365ee009e4aSDavid Howells 2366e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2367e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2368e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2369e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2370e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2371e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2372e5beae16SKeith Packard 23734692d77fSAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 23744692d77fSAlessandro Rubini bool 237583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_64 || STA2X11 23764692d77fSAlessandro Rubini 2377f7219a53SAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DMA_REMAP 2378f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini bool 237983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on STA2X11 2380f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini 2381e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2382e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2383e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2384e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2385e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2386e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2387e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2388e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2389e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2390e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2391e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2392e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2393e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2394e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2395edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2396edf88417SAvi Kivity 2397e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2398