1daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 36840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 46840999bSSam Ravnborg default ARCH = "x86_64" 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 191032c0baSSam Ravnborg 201032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 218d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 223c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 24a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 25cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 26cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 27ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 2842d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 298761f1abSRalf Baechle select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 30cc2067a5SPeter Zijlstra select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 31e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select HAVE_IRQ_WORK 3228b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 333f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 3472d7c3b3SYinghai Lu select HAVE_MEMBLOCK 350608f70cSTejun Heo select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP 36c378ddd5STejun Heo select ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK 371f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 38da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 397c095e46SFUJITA Tomonori select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS 400a2b9a6eSMarek Szyprowski select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if !SWIOTLB 419edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 42c0f7ac3aSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_OPTPROBES 43e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 44d57c5d51SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 45cf4db259SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 46677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 47606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 4848d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 4971e308a2SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST 5060a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 5166700001SJosh Stone select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 527ac57a89SCatalin Marinas select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 53e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 5449793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 5599bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 56323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 5758340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 588d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 59f850c30cSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 602118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 6430314804SLasse Collin select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 6513510997SAlbin Tonnerre select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 660067f129SK.Prasad select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 670102752eSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 6899e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select PERF_EVENTS 69c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 70c5e63197SJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_REGS 71c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 72b69ec42bSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 7399e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select ANON_INODES 74eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB 75eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 762565409fSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 770a4af3b0SPekka Enberg select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK 787c68af6eSAvi Kivity select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 79e39f5602SDavid Daney select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE 8046eb3b64SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 813cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_TEXT_POKE_SMP 823bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS 837463449bSCatalin Marinas select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE 84141d55e6SYinghai Lu select SPARSE_IRQ 85c49aa5bdSJan Beulich select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT 863bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 873bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP 88517e4981SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW 89d1748302SMartin Schwidefsky select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST 90c0185808SThomas Gleixner select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING 91351f8f8eSAmerigo Wang select USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS if SMP 92e47b65b0SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_BPF_JIT if X86_64 9315626062SGerald Schaefer select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 940a779c57SThomas Gleixner select CLKEVT_I8253 95df013ffbSHuang Ying select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 964673ca8eSMichael S. Tsirkin select GENERIC_IOMAP 97e419b4ccSLinus Torvalds select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS 987eb43a6dSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 99c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if X86_32 100c6cfbeb4SWill Drewry select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 1018b5ad472SDavid Daney select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 102bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 103bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 104bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 105bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA if X86_64 106bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 107bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL if X86_64 108bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select KTIME_SCALAR if X86_32 1094ae73f2dSLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER 1105723aa99SLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER 11191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING if X86_64 112fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 113786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL if X86_32 114786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64 1151d4b4b29SAl Viro select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32 1166bf9adfcSAl Viro select GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK 11729fd4480SAl Viro select GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGACTION 1187b83d1a2SAl Viro select GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGQUEUEINFO 119f45adb04SAl Viro select GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGPENDING 12015ce1f71SAl Viro select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 121*5b3eb3adSAl Viro select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32 122*5b3eb3adSAl Viro select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION 1237d8330a5SBalbir Singh 124ba7e4d13SIngo Molnarconfig INSTRUCTION_DECODER 1253120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1263120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES 127ba7e4d13SIngo Molnar 12851b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 12951b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 13051b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 13151b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 13251b26adaSLinus Torvalds 13373531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 134b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 13573531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 13673531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 137b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 1388d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1393c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1408d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1418d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1438d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 144aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 145aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 146aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 1478d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 1483c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 1518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1533bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 1543120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1553120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || INTEL_IOMMU || DMA_API_DEBUG 1563bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonori 15718e98307SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH 1584a14d84eSAndrew Morton def_bool y 15918e98307SFUJITA Tomonori 1608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 1613120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1623120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 1653c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 167b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 168b93a531eSJan Beulich 169b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 170b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1733c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 175a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1769ba16087SJan Beulich bool 177a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1793120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1803120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1821032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1833120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1841032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1851032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1861032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1871032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1889a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1899a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 19189cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 19289cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 19389cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 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 2158d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 2168d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2178d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2188d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 2208d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2218d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 223765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 224765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 225765c68bdSIngo Molnar 2266a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 2276a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 2286a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 22969575d38SShane Wangconfig HAVE_INTEL_TXT 23069575d38SShane Wang def_bool y 231d3f13810SSuresh Siddha depends on EXPERIMENTAL && INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI 23269575d38SShane Wang 2336b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 2346b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2356b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 2366b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2376b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 2386b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2396b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 2406b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2418d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 2426fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 243ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 2448d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 245ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 246ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 24760a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 248ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 249d61931d8SBorislav Petkovconfig ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS 250d61931d8SBorislav Petkov string 251d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-ecx -fcall-saved-edx" if X86_32 252d61931d8SBorislav 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 253d61931d8SBorislav Petkov 254d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkovconfig ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE 255d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkov def_bool y 256d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkov depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 257d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkov 2582b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 2592b144498SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool y 2602b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 261506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 262dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 264506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2665ee71535SRandy Dunlapconfig ZONE_DMA 2675ee71535SRandy Dunlap bool "DMA memory allocation support" if EXPERT 2685ee71535SRandy Dunlap default y 2695ee71535SRandy Dunlap help 2705ee71535SRandy Dunlap DMA memory allocation support allows devices with less than 32-bit 2715ee71535SRandy Dunlap addressing to allocate within the first 16MB of address space. 2725ee71535SRandy Dunlap Disable if no such devices will be used. 2735ee71535SRandy Dunlap 2745ee71535SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 2755ee71535SRandy Dunlap 276506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 298395cf969SPaul Bolle See also <file:Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 30406cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 30506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 306d3f13810SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP 30706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 30806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 30906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 31006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 31106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 31206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 31306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 31406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 3156695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 3166e87f9b7SBin Gao bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI 3177a527688SJan Beulich default y 3185ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 3198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3206695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 3216695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 3226695c85bSYinghai Lu 32326f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 32426f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 32526f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 3268f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 32726f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 328506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3298425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 330c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 331c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 332c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3338f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 33406ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 33506ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 33606ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 33706ac8346SIngo Molnar 3388425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3398425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 3408425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3418425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3428425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3438425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 34483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11-based (e.g. Northville) 3458425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Summit/EXA (IBM x440) 3468425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Unisys ES7000 IA32 series 3473f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown MID devices 34806ac8346SIngo Molnar 34906ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 35006ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3518425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 35206ac8346SIngo Molnar 3538425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3548425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3558425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3568425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3578425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3588425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3598425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3608425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3618425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3628425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3638425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 36444b111b5SSteffen Persvold Numascale NumaChip 3658425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3668425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3678425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3688425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3698425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3708425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 371c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 372c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 37344b111b5SSteffen Persvoldconfig X86_NUMACHIP 37444b111b5SSteffen Persvold bool "Numascale NumaChip" 37544b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_64 37644b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 37744b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on NUMA 37844b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on SMP 37944b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_X2APIC 380f9726bfdSDaniel J Blueman depends on PCI_MMCONFIG 38144b111b5SSteffen Persvold ---help--- 38244b111b5SSteffen Persvold Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to 38344b111b5SSteffen Persvold enable more than ~168 cores. 38444b111b5SSteffen Persvold If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 38503b48632SNick Piggin 3866a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 387c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 38803f1a17cSRandy Dunlap select PARAVIRT_GUEST 3896a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3906a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 391c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 392ead91d4bSShai Fultheim depends on SMP 3938f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3946a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3956a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 3966a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 3976a48565eSIngo Molnar 398c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 399c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 400c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 401c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 40254c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 4039d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 404c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 405c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 406c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 407c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 408c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 409c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 411c751e17bSThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_INTEL_CE 412c751e17bSThomas Gleixner bool "CE4100 TV platform" 413c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI 414c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI_GODIRECT 415c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 416c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 41737bc9f50SDirk Brandewie select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 418da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF 419da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE 420b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 421c751e17bSThomas Gleixner ---help--- 422c751e17bSThomas Gleixner Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC. 423c751e17bSThomas Gleixner This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop 424c751e17bSThomas Gleixner boxes and media devices. 425c751e17bSThomas Gleixner 426dd137525SAlan Coxconfig X86_WANT_INTEL_MID 42743605ef1SAlan Cox bool "Intel MID platform support" 42843605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_32 42943605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 43043605ef1SAlan Cox ---help--- 43143605ef1SAlan Cox Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID platform 43243605ef1SAlan Cox systems which do not have the PCI legacy interfaces (Moorestown, 43343605ef1SAlan Cox Medfield). If you are building for a PC class system say N here. 43443605ef1SAlan Cox 435dd137525SAlan Coxif X86_WANT_INTEL_MID 43643605ef1SAlan Cox 4374e2b1c4fSAlan Coxconfig X86_INTEL_MID 4384e2b1c4fSAlan Cox bool 4394e2b1c4fSAlan Cox 4401ea7c673SAlan Coxconfig X86_MDFLD 4411ea7c673SAlan Cox bool "Medfield MID platform" 4421ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI 4431ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI_GOANY 4441ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on X86_IO_APIC 4457c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select X86_INTEL_MID 4467c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select SFI 4477c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select DW_APB_TIMER 4481ea7c673SAlan Cox select APB_TIMER 4491ea7c673SAlan Cox select I2C 4501ea7c673SAlan Cox select SPI 4511ea7c673SAlan Cox select INTEL_SCU_IPC 4521ea7c673SAlan Cox select X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 45315a713dfSMika Westerberg select MFD_INTEL_MSIC 4541ea7c673SAlan Cox ---help--- 4551ea7c673SAlan Cox Medfield is Intel's Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) based Moblin 4561ea7c673SAlan Cox Internet Device(MID) platform. 4571ea7c673SAlan Cox Unlike standard x86 PCs, Medfield does not have many legacy devices 4581ea7c673SAlan Cox nor standard legacy replacement devices/features. e.g. Medfield does 4591ea7c673SAlan Cox not contain i8259, i8254, HPET, legacy BIOS, most of the io ports. 4601ea7c673SAlan Cox 46143605ef1SAlan Coxendif 46243605ef1SAlan Cox 463c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 464c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 466c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 467c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 468c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 469c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 470c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 471c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 472c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 473c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 474e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4759c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 4769c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 477c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 4788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 47983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, 48083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11, default subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic 48183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini binary kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it 48283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini one by one and will fallback to default. 483d49c4288SYinghai Lu 484c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 485d49c4288SYinghai Lu 486506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 488e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 489a92d152eSPan, Jacob jun depends on PCI 490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 4919c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 4928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 493d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 494d49c4288SYinghai Lu NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 495d49c4288SYinghai Lu bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 496d49c4288SYinghai Lu of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 497d49c4288SYinghai Lu firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 499d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 5006fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 501d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 502d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_MCE 503d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 504d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on !X86_NUMAQ 505d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 506d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 507d949f36fSLinus Torvalds select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 508d949f36fSLinus Torvalds 5091b84e1c8SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VISWS 5101b84e1c8SIngo Molnar bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 511c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 512c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 513c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 5141b84e1c8SIngo Molnar The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 5151b84e1c8SIngo Molnar based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 5161b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 5171b84e1c8SIngo Molnar Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 5181b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 5191b84e1c8SIngo Molnar A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 5201b84e1c8SIngo Molnar PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 5211b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 52283125a3aSAlessandro Rubiniconfig STA2X11 52383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini bool "STA2X11 Companion Chip Support" 52483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && PCI 52583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 52683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DMA_REMAP 52783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select SWIOTLB 52883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select MFD_STA2X11 52983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB 53083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini default n 53183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini ---help--- 53283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub, 53383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard 53483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this 53583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini option is selected the kernel will still be able to boot on 53683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini standard PC machines. 53783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini 5389c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 5399c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 540e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 5418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5429c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 5439c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 5441f972768SIngo Molnar 5459c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 546c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 54726f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 5488f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5499c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 5509c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 5519c398017SIngo Molnar 55282148d1dSShérabconfig X86_32_IRIS 55382148d1dSShérab tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module" 55482148d1dSShérab depends on X86_32 55582148d1dSShérab ---help--- 55682148d1dSShérab The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support 55782148d1dSShérab to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is 55882148d1dSShérab needed to do so, which is what this module does at 55982148d1dSShérab kernel shutdown. 56082148d1dSShérab 56182148d1dSShérab This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille. 56282148d1dSShérab 56382148d1dSShérab If unused, say N. 56482148d1dSShérab 565ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 5663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 568a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 5698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 577506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 578506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 5798f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 582506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 585506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 587095c0aa8SGlauber Costaconfig PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 588095c0aa8SGlauber Costa bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" 589095c0aa8SGlauber Costa select PARAVIRT 590095c0aa8SGlauber Costa default n 591095c0aa8SGlauber Costa ---help--- 592095c0aa8SGlauber Costa Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time 593095c0aa8SGlauber Costa accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with 594095c0aa8SGlauber Costa the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for 595095c0aa8SGlauber Costa that, there can be a small performance impact. 596095c0aa8SGlauber Costa 597095c0aa8SGlauber Costa If in doubt, say N here. 598095c0aa8SGlauber Costa 599506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 600506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 60190993cddSMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 60290993cddSMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)" 60390993cddSMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 604790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 605f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 60690993cddSMarcelo Tosatti default y if PARAVIRT_GUEST 6078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6080cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 60990993cddSMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead 61090993cddSMarcelo Tosatti of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the 61190993cddSMarcelo Tosatti underlying device model, the host provides the guest with 61290993cddSMarcelo Tosatti timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time 6130cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 614506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 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 624b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 625b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 626b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && SMP && EXPERIMENTAL 627b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 628b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 629b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 630b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 631b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 632b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Unfortunately the downside is an up to 5% performance hit on 633b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge native kernels, with various workloads. 634b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 635b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 636b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 6377af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 6387af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 6397af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 640506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 641506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 64297349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 64397349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 64497349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 6458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 64697349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 64797349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 64897349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 64908677214SYinghai Luconfig NO_BOOTMEM 650774ea0bcSYinghai Lu def_bool y 65108677214SYinghai Lu 65203273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 65303273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 6548f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 655c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 65603273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 65703273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 65803273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 65903273184SYinghai Lu ... 66003273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 661aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 663506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 6643c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 665e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 667506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 6683c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 669f9b15df4SAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_SUMMIT 670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 671506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 673506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 6743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 6768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 684e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 686506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 688506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 691506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 692506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 6933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6949d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 695506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 696bb24c471SJacob Panconfig APB_TIMER 697933b9463SAlan Cox def_bool y if X86_INTEL_MID 698933b9463SAlan Cox prompt "Intel MID APB Timer Support" if X86_INTEL_MID 69906c3df49SJamie Iles select DW_APB_TIMER 700a0c3832aSAlan Cox depends on X86_INTEL_MID && SFI 701bb24c471SJacob Pan help 702bb24c471SJacob Pan APB timer is the replacement for 8254, HPET on X86 MID platforms. 703bb24c471SJacob Pan The APBT provides a stable time base on SMP 704bb24c471SJacob Pan systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 705bb24c471SJacob Pan as it is off-chip. APB timers are always running regardless of CPU 706bb24c471SJacob Pan C states, they are used as per CPU clockevent device when possible. 707bb24c471SJacob Pan 7086a108a14SDavid Rientjes# Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong. 709506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 7107ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 7117ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 7126a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT 7138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 7147ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 7157ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 7167ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 7177ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 7187ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 719506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 7206a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "GART IOMMU support" if EXPERT 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 72323ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmann depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB 7248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 735506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 7398f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 749506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 753506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 7543c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7553c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 7578f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 766a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 7678f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 7694454d327SJoe Millenbach which don't have a hardware IOMMU. Using this PCI devices 7704454d327SJoe Millenbach which can only access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems 7714454d327SJoe Millenbach with more than 3 GB of memory. 7724454d327SJoe Millenbach If unsure, say Y. 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 774a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 7753120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 7763120e25eSJan Beulich depends on CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU 777d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 7781184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 779ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 78036f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 78136f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 7828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 783ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 7841184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 78736f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 7882a3313f4SMichael K. Johnson range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP 78936f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 79078637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 791d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 79278637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 79378637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 7948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 796d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 804b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 8058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 8123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8133c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 814b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 8158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 824e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 8258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 834506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 835506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 8388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 840506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 845506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 846506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 847506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 8483c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 849e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 850506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 8523c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8531444e0c9SHenrik Kretzschmar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_IOAPIC 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 8563c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 857506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 858506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 85941b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 86041b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 86141b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 8628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 86341b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 86441b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 86541b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 86641b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 86741b9eb26SStefan Assmann 86841b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 86941b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 87041b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 87141b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 87241b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 87341b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 87441b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 87541b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 87641b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 87741b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 87841b9eb26SStefan Assmann 87941b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 88041b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 88141b9eb26SStefan Assmann 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 883bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 884e57dbaf7SBorislav Petkov default y 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 886bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 887bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 889bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 8904efc0670SAndi Kleen 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 8923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 894c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 896506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 897506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 898506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 9003c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 9013c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 902c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 9038f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 904506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 905506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 906506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9074efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 9086fc108a0SJan Beulich bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 909c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 9104efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 9114efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 9124efc0670SAndi Kleen systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitely on the command 9134efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 9144efc0670SAndi Kleen 915b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 916b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 9176fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 918b2762686SAndi Kleen 919ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 920c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE 921ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 922ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 923ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 924ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 925ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 926ea149b36SAndi Kleen 9274efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 9284efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 9295bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 9304efc0670SAndi Kleen 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 9326a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM86 support" if EXPERT 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 959949a9d70SJean Delvare select HWMON 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 9799ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 9809ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 9895e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 996e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov tristate "CPU microcode loading support" 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 999e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 100180cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 1002e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, 1003e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov Xeon etc. The AMD support is for families 0x10 and later. You will 1004e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself which is not 1005e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov shipped with the Linux kernel. 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10078d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 10088d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1010e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1011e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov will be called microcode. 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10138d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 1014e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "Intel microcode loading support" 10158d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 10168d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 10178d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10198d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 10208d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 10218d86f390SPeter Oruba 10228d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 10238d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 10248d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 10258d86f390SPeter Oruba 102680cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 1027e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "AMD microcode loading support" 102880cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 102980cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10308f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 103180cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 103280cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 103380cc9f10SPeter Oruba 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 10353c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 10408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 10498f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 10586fc108a0SJan Beulich default HIGHMEM4G 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1066506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1067506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1069506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1073506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1076506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1078506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1081506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1092506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1096506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 11018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1104506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1107eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin depends on !M486 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 11098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 11176a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 11208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 11603c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 11649ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 11668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1168506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1169506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1170506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1171506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1172600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 11733120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 11743120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 1175600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 117666f2b061SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT 11773120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 11783120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G 117966f2b061SFUJITA Tomonori 11809e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 11816a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EXPERT 11829e899816SNick Piggin default y 11839e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 11848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11859e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 11869e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 11879e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 11889e899816SNick Piggin 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1191fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 1193604d2055SRafael J. Wysocki depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 11940699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 11958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1196506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1197fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1198506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1199506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1200506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1201506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1202c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1203fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1204fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1205fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1206fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1207fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1208fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1209fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1214eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeldconfig AMD_NUMA 12153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12163c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 12175da0ef9aSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 12188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1219eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1220eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to 1221eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge 1222eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead, 1223eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1225506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12263c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12273c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 12308f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12336ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 12346ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 12356ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 12366ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 12376ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 12386ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 12396ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 12406ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12416ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1242506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 12441b7e03efSTejun Heo depends on NUMA 12458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1251d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 125251591e31SDavid Rientjes range 1 10 125351591e31SDavid Rientjes default "10" if MAXSMP 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 12588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12591184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1260692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12623b16651fSTejun Heoconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 12633b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 12643b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && NUMA 12653b16651fSTejun Heo 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 12673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1270506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 12713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1274506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12763b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !NUMA 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1278506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1280b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1282506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1284b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1285b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1286506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12884272ebfbSYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12923b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 12933b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 12943b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 12953b16651fSTejun Heo 1296506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1298b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1300506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 13013120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 13023120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13043b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 13053b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 13063b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 13073b16651fSTejun Heo 1308a29815a3SAvi Kivityconfig ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1309a29815a3SAvi Kivity hex 1310a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0 if X86_32 1311a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1312a29815a3SAvi Kivity 1313506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1315506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1316506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 13176fc108a0SJan Beulich depends on HIGHMEM 13188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1319506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1320506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1321506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1322506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1323506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13249f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 13259f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 13268f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13279f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 13289f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 13299f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 13309f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 13319f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 13329f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 13339f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 13349f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 13359f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13369f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 13379f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 13389f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 13399f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 13409f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13419f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 13429f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 13439f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 13449f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 13459f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1346c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1347c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1348c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1349c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 13508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1351c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1352c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1353c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13549ea77bdbSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW 1355d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS" 1356d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64 1357d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin range 4 640 13588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1359d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS. 1360fc381519SIngo Molnar 1361d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel 1362d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin must not use, so that page must always be reserved. 1363fc381519SIngo Molnar 1364d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin By default we reserve the first 64K of physical RAM, as a 1365d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin number of BIOSes are known to corrupt that memory range 1366d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin during events such as suspend/resume or monitor cable 1367d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin insertion, so it must not be used by the kernel. 1368fc381519SIngo Molnar 1369d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin You can set this to 4 if you are absolutely sure that you 1370d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin trust the BIOS to get all its memory reservations and usages 1371d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin right. If you know your BIOS have problems beyond the 1372d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64K area, you can set this to 640 to avoid using the 1373d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin entire low memory range. 1374d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1375d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does 1376d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin not work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware 1377d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin hotplug events) then you might want to enable 1378d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check 1379d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin typical corruption patterns. 1380d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1381d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Leave this to the default value of 64 if you are unsure. 1382fc381519SIngo Molnar 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 14106fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 14116a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14427225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 144495ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 14452ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 144695ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 144795ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 14488f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1449aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1450aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 145195ffa243SYinghai Lu 1452aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1453692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1454aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 145595ffa243SYinghai Lu 14562ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 145795ffa243SYinghai Lu 145895ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1459f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1460f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1461f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 146295ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14638f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1464f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 146595ffa243SYinghai Lu 146612031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 146712031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 146812031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 146912031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 147012031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 147212031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1473aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 147412031a62SYinghai Lu 14752e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 14766fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 14776a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT 14782a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 14798f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 14802e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1481042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 14822e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 14832e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 14842e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14852e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1486042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 14872e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14882e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 14892e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 149046cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED 149146cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 149246cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi depends on X86_PAT 149346cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1494628c6246SH. Peter Anvinconfig ARCH_RANDOM 1495628c6246SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1496628c6246SH. Peter Anvin prompt "x86 architectural random number generator" if EXPERT 1497628c6246SH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 1498628c6246SH. Peter Anvin Enable the x86 architectural RDRAND instruction 1499628c6246SH. Peter Anvin (Intel Bull Mountain technology) to generate random numbers. 1500628c6246SH. Peter Anvin If supported, this is a high bandwidth, cryptographically 1501628c6246SH. Peter Anvin secure hardware random number generator. 1502628c6246SH. Peter Anvin 150351ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_SMAP 150451ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 150551ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin prompt "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention" if EXPERT 150651ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 150751ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security 150851ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin feature in newer Intel processors. There is a small 150951ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is 151051ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin also a small increase in the kernel size if this is enabled. 151151ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 151251ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin If unsure, say Y. 151351ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 1514506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 15159ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 15165b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15188b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1519506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15218b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 15228b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 15238b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 15248b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 15258b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 15268b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1527506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1528291f3632SMatt Flemingconfig EFI_STUB 1529291f3632SMatt Fleming bool "EFI stub support" 1530291f3632SMatt Fleming depends on EFI 1531291f3632SMatt Fleming ---help--- 1532291f3632SMatt Fleming This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly 1533291f3632SMatt Fleming by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. 1534291f3632SMatt Fleming 15350c759662SMatt Fleming See Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt for more information. 15360c759662SMatt Fleming 1537506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 15383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15393c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 15408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 15479c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1553506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 15542a8ac745SJean Delvare bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection" 15558f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1557113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1558113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1560506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1566113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1567113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1569506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1571506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 15738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1578506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1579506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1582506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1587506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 158804b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 15908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1591506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1592506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1600506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 16013ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 16023ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16033ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1604fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 16058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 160689081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 160789081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 16083ab83521SHuang Ying 1609506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 16106a108a14SDavid Rientjes hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP) 1611ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 16128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1617506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1618506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1620506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1621506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1622506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1623506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1624506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1625506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1630ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 1631ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 1632ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 1633ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 1634ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 1635ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 1636ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 1637ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1638ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 1639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1640506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1641506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1643506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1645506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1650506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 165126717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 165226717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 16538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1654506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1655506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1661506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1665506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1667845adf72SH. Peter Anvin# Relocation on x86-32 needs some additional build support 1668845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 1669845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1670845adf72SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_32 && RELOCATABLE 1671845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 1672506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 16736fc108a0SJan Beulich hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1674ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 1675ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin range 0x2000 0x1000000 16768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1686506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1688506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1691506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1693506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1694506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1695506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 16967c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 16974b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 16997c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 17007c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 17017c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 17027c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 17037c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1704506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 170580aa1dffSFenghua Yuconfig BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 170680aa1dffSFenghua Yu bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable" 170780aa1dffSFenghua Yu default n 170880aa1dffSFenghua Yu depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && EXPERIMENTAL 170980aa1dffSFenghua Yu ---help--- 171080aa1dffSFenghua Yu Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off. 171180aa1dffSFenghua Yu 171280aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say Y here to enable CPU0 hotplug by default. If this switch 171380aa1dffSFenghua Yu is turned on, there is no need to give cpu0_hotplug kernel 171480aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter and the CPU0 hotplug feature is enabled by default. 171580aa1dffSFenghua Yu 171680aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please note: there are two known CPU0 dependencies if you want 171780aa1dffSFenghua Yu to enable the CPU0 hotplug feature either by this switch or by 171880aa1dffSFenghua Yu cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter. 171980aa1dffSFenghua Yu 172080aa1dffSFenghua Yu First, resume from hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. 172180aa1dffSFenghua Yu So hibernate and suspend are prevented if CPU0 is offline. 172280aa1dffSFenghua Yu 172380aa1dffSFenghua Yu Second dependency is PIC interrupts always go to CPU0. CPU0 can not 172480aa1dffSFenghua Yu offline if any interrupt can not migrate out of CPU0. There may 172580aa1dffSFenghua Yu be other CPU0 dependencies. 172680aa1dffSFenghua Yu 172780aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please make sure the dependencies are under your control before 172880aa1dffSFenghua Yu you enable this feature. 172980aa1dffSFenghua Yu 173080aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say N if you don't want to enable CPU0 hotplug feature by default. 173180aa1dffSFenghua Yu You still can enable the CPU0 hotplug feature at boot by kernel 173280aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter cpu0_hotplug. 173380aa1dffSFenghua Yu 1734a71c8bc5SFenghua Yuconfig DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 1735a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu def_bool n 1736a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug" 1737a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && EXPERIMENTAL 1738a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu ---help--- 1739a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as 1740a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User 1741a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu can online CPU0 back after boot time. 1742a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1743a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu To debug CPU0 hotplug, you need to enable CPU0 offline/online 1744a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu feature by either turning on CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 during 1745a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu compilation or giving cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter at boot. 1746a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1747a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu If unsure, say N. 1748a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1749506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 17503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 17513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1752af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 17538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1754af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1755e84446deSRandy Dunlap 1756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1762516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1763516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 17648f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1765516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1766516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1767516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1768516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1769516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1770516cbf37STim Bird 1771516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1772516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1773516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1774516cbf37STim Bird 1775516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1776516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1777516cbf37STim Bird 1778516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1779516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1780516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1781516cbf37STim Bird default "" 17828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1783516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1784516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1785516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1786516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1787516cbf37STim Bird 1788516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1789516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1790516cbf37STim Bird 1791516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1792516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1793516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1794516cbf37STim Bird 1795516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1796516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1797516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 17988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1799516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1800516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1801516cbf37STim Bird 1802516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1803516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1804516cbf37STim Bird 1805506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1806506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1807506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 181135551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 181235551053SGary Hade def_bool y 181335551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 181435551053SGary Hade 1815e534c7c5SLee Schermerhornconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 1816645a7919STejun Heo def_bool y 1817e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn depends on NUMA 1818e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn 1819da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1820e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1821e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 18223c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1824e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1825e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1827e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1828e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1829efafc8b2SFeng Tangsource "drivers/sfi/Kconfig" 1830efafc8b2SFeng Tang 1831a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 18326fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 1833282e5aabSPaul Bolle depends on APM 1834a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1837efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1838e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1839e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1840e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1841e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1842e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1843e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1844e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1845e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1846e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1847e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1848e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1849e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1850e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1851e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 18532dc98fd3SMichael Witten and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.txt> 18542dc98fd3SMichael Witten and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1858e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1859e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1860e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1862e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1863e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1864e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1866e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1868e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 18988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 19228f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 19338f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 19468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1956bb0a56ecSDave Jonessource "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 196027471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 196127471fdbSAndy Henroid 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1966e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 19681ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 19691c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 19718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1979efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1982e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2002e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 2003e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20053ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 200676fb6570SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1" 20073ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 20083ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 20092bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 20102bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 20112bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 20153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2016efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 20203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20210aba496fSShaohua Li depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)) 2022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2023e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 20243c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20255f0db7a2SFeng Tang depends on X86_32 && PCI && (ACPI || SFI) && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20273ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 20282bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 20292bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 20303ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2031b5401a96SAlex Nixonconfig PCI_XEN 2032b5401a96SAlex Nixon def_bool y 2033b5401a96SAlex Nixon depends on PCI && XEN 2034b5401a96SAlex Nixon select SWIOTLB_XEN 2035b5401a96SAlex Nixon 2036e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 20373c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2038e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 2039e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2040e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 2041e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 2042e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 2043e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20443f6ea84aSIra W. Snyderconfig PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 20456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" if EXPERT 204664a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 20473f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder help 20483f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 20493f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 20503f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder not have ACPI. 20513f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder 205264a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality 205364a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas is known to be incomplete. 205464a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 205564a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas You should say N unless you know you need this. 205664a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 2057e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 2058e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2059e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 2060e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20611c00f016SDavid Rientjes# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA. 2062e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 20631c00f016SDavid Rientjes bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT) 20641c00f016SDavid Rientjes default y 20651c00f016SDavid Rientjes help 20661c00f016SDavid Rientjes Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers. 20671c00f016SDavid Rientjes If unsure, say Y. 2068e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2069e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 2070e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2071e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 2072e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 20738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2074e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2075e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2076e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2077e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 2078e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 2079e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2080e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 2081e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 2082e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 2083e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2084e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 2085e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 2086e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2087e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 2088e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 2089e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 2090e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 2091e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2092e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 2093e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2094e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 2095e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2096e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 2097e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2098e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 2099e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 21008f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2101e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 2102e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 2103e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 2104e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 2105e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2106e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 2107e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2108e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 2109e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 2110592913ecSJohn Stultz depends on SCx200 2111e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 21128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2113e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 2114e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 2115e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 2116e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 2117e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 2118e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21193ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 21203ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 212154008979SThomas Gleixner depends on !X86_PAE 21223c554946SAndres Salomon select GPIOLIB 2123dc3119e7SThomas Gleixner select OF 212445bb1674SDaniel Drake select OF_PROMTREE 2125b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 21268f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 21273ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 21283ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 21293ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2130a3128588SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_PM 2131a3128588SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management" 213297c4cb71SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535 && PM_SLEEP 2133a3128588SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 2134bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake ---help--- 213597c4cb71SDaniel Drake Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop. 2136bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake 2137cfee9597SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_RTC 2138cfee9597SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock" 2139cfee9597SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS 2140cfee9597SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2141cfee9597SDaniel Drake Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a 2142cfee9597SDaniel Drake programmable wakeup source. 2143cfee9597SDaniel Drake 21447feda8e9SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_SCI 21457feda8e9SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras" 2146d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM 2147d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 21487feda8e9SDaniel Drake select GPIO_CS5535 21497feda8e9SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 21507feda8e9SDaniel Drake ---help--- 21517feda8e9SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop: 21527bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 21537feda8e9SDaniel Drake - Power button 21547bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - Ebook switch 21552cf2baeaSDaniel Drake - Lid switch 2156e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2157e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 21587feda8e9SDaniel Drake 2159a0f30f59SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO15_SCI 2160a0f30f59SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras" 2161d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && ACPI 2162d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 2163a0f30f59SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2164a0f30f59SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop: 2165a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 2166a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2167a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 2168e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2169d4f3e350SEd Wildgooseconfig ALIX 2170d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)" 2171d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose select GPIOLIB 2172d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ---help--- 2173d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX. 2174d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on 2175d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should 2176d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose get added here. 2177d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2178d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support 2179d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs 2180d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2181d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS. 2182d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2183da4e3302SPhilip Prindevilleconfig NET5501 2184da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 2185da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville select GPIOLIB 2186da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville ---help--- 2187da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501. 2188da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville 21893197059aSPhilip A. Prindevilleconfig GEOS 21903197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 21913197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville select GPIOLIB 21923197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville depends on DMI 21933197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville ---help--- 21943197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS. 21953197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville 2196e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 2197e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 219823ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmannconfig AMD_NB 2199e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 22000e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 2201e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2202e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 2203e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2204e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 2205e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2206388b78adSAlexandre Bounineconfig RAPIDIO 2207388b78adSAlexandre Bounine bool "RapidIO support" 2208388b78adSAlexandre Bounine depends on PCI 2209388b78adSAlexandre Bounine default n 2210388b78adSAlexandre Bounine help 2211388b78adSAlexandre Bounine If you say Y here, the kernel will include drivers and 2212388b78adSAlexandre Bounine infrastructure code to support RapidIO interconnect devices. 2213388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2214388b78adSAlexandre Bouninesource "drivers/rapidio/Kconfig" 2215388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2216e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2217e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2218e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2219e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 2220e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2221e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 2222e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2223e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2224e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2225e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2226a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 2227af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 22288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 22295fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 22305fd92e65SH. J. Lu 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 22315fd92e65SH. J. Lu 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. 2232e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2233e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2234e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 22356b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 22368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2237e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2238e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 22390bf62763SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_X32 22405fd92e65SH. J. Lu bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode (EXPERIMENTAL)" 22415fd92e65SH. J. Lu depends on X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION && EXPERIMENTAL 22425fd92e65SH. J. Lu ---help--- 22435fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI 22445fd92e65SH. J. Lu for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the 22455fd92e65SH. J. Lu full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving 22465fd92e65SH. J. Lu pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint. 22475fd92e65SH. J. Lu 22485fd92e65SH. J. Lu You will need a recent binutils (2.22 or later) with 22495fd92e65SH. J. Lu elf32_x86_64 support enabled to compile a kernel with this 22505fd92e65SH. J. Lu option set. 22515fd92e65SH. J. Lu 2252e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 22533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 22540bf62763SH. Peter Anvin depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32 225548b25c43SChris Metcalf select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 2256e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 22573120e25eSJan Beulichif COMPAT 2258e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 22593120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2260e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2261e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 22623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 22633120e25eSJan Beulich depends on SYSVIPC 2264e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2265ee009e4aSDavid Howellsconfig KEYS_COMPAT 22663120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 22673120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KEYS 22683120e25eSJan Beulichendif 2269ee009e4aSDavid Howells 2270e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2271e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2272e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2273e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2274e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2275e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2276e5beae16SKeith Packard 22773cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_TEXT_POKE_SMP 22783cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu bool 22793cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu select STOP_MACHINE if SMP 22803cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu 22814692d77fSAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 22824692d77fSAlessandro Rubini bool 228383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_64 || STA2X11 22844692d77fSAlessandro Rubini 2285f7219a53SAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DMA_REMAP 2286f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini bool 228783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on STA2X11 2288f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini 2289e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2290e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2291e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2292e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2293e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2294e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2295e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2296e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2297e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2298e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2299e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2300e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2301e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2302e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2303edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2304edf88417SAvi Kivity 2305e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2306