11032c0baSSam Ravnborg# x86 configuration 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgmainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86" 3daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 4daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 5daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 66840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 76840999bSSam Ravnborg default ARCH = "x86_64" 8daa93fabSSam Ravnborg help 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 10daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 11daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 12daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 13daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool !64BIT 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 16daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool 64BIT 171032c0baSSam Ravnborg 181032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 21ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 2242d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 233f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 249edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 251a4e3f89SRandy Dunlap select HAVE_KVM if ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER && !X86_VISWS && !X86_NUMAQ) || X86_64) 26fcbc04c0SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !X86_VOYAGER 277d8330a5SBalbir Singh 288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2995c354feSNick Pigginconfig GENERIC_LOCKBREAK 30314cdbefSNick Piggin def_bool n 3195c354feSNick Piggin 328d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 333c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 348d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 358d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 363c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 378d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 388d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 393c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 408d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 418d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 438d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 448d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 453c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 468d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 478d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 523c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 54aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 55aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 56aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 571f84260cSChristoph Lameterconfig FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 581f84260cSChristoph Lameter bool 591f84260cSChristoph Lameter default y 601f84260cSChristoph Lameter 618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 653c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 773c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 83a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 84a6082959SFlorian Fainelli def_bool n 85a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 873c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig DMI 903c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 918d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 921032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 931032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 941032c0baSSam Ravnborg 951032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 961032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 971032c0baSSam Ravnborg 981032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U32 991032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool n 1001032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1011032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U64 1021032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool n 1031032c0baSSam Ravnborg 104a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 105a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 106a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1071032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1081032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1091032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1138d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1149a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1159a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1168d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 117dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 1184fe29a85SGlauber de Oliveira Costa def_bool X86_64 || (X86_SMP && !X86_VOYAGER) 119b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 1209f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1219f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1229f0e8d04SMike Travis 123801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 124801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 125801e4062SJohannes Berg depends on !SMP || !X86_VOYAGER 126801e4062SJohannes Berg 127f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 128f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 129f4cb5700SJohannes Berg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 130f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1318d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1328d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1338d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1348d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1358d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1368d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1378d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1388d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1398d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1408d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1418d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 142b0b933c0SDavid Howellsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT 143b0b933c0SDavid Howells def_bool y 144b0b933c0SDavid Howells 145765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 146765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 147765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 1588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 1608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SMP 1638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1646b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP && ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_64) 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1676b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 1686b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1696b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 1706b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1716b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 1726b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1736b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 1746b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 1768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 177ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 178b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on (X86_32 && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER)) || X86_64 1798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_BIOS_REBOOT 1828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) 1848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 1878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 188e44b7b75SPavel Machek depends on X86_SMP || (X86_VOYAGER && SMP) || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 1898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1918d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 1928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 193506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 1948d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 195506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 196506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 197506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 198506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 199506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 200506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 201506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 203506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 205506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 208506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 22103502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 227506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Subarchitecture Type" 229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default X86_PC 230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 231506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PC 232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "PC-compatible" 233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose this option if your computer is a standard PC or compatible. 235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 236506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_ELAN 237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "AMD Elan" 238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 246506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VOYAGER 247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Voyager (NCR)" 248823c248eSRoman Zippel depends on X86_32 && (SMP || BROKEN) 249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary 251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based. 252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg *** WARNING *** 254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine, 256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say N here, otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable. 257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 258506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 260823c248eSRoman Zippel depends on SMP && X86_32 261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA 264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped, 265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead of Flat Logical. 266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your firmware with - send 267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 269506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT 270506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In particular, it is needed for the x440. 275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 276506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have one of these computers, you should say N here. 277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you want to build a NUMA kernel, you must select ACPI. 278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 279506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_BIGSMP 280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for other sub-arch SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and if the system is not of any sub-arch type above. 285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have such a system, you should say N here. 287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 288506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS 289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will not run on PCs 298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and vice versa. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 300506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_GENERICARCH 301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Generic architecture (Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default)" 302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option compiles in the Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default subarchitectures. 305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you want a NUMA kernel, select ACPI. We need SRAT for NUMA. 307506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 308506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_ES7000 309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 311506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 312506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Only choose this option if you have such a system, otherwise you 315506f1d07SSam Ravnborg should say N here. 316506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3175e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelliconfig X86_RDC321X 3185e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 3195e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli depends on X86_32 3205e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli select M486 3215e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 3225e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli select GENERIC_GPIO 3234cf31841SFlorian Fainelli select LEDS_CLASS 3245e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli select LEDS_GPIO 3255e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli help 3265e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 3275e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli as R-8610-(G). 3285e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 3295e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli 330506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VSMP 331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for ScaleMP vSMP" 33296597fd2SGlauber Costa select PARAVIRT 333823c248eSRoman Zippel depends on X86_64 334506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 335506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 336506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 337506f1d07SSam Ravnborg if you have one of these machines. 338506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 339506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 340506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 341506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 3423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 3433c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 344506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 345506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 346506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 347506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 348506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 350506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 351506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 353506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 355506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 356506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 357506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 358506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 359506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 360506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 361506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 362506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 363506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 364506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 365506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 366506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 36842d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) 370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 372506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 373506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 374506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 376*790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 377*790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 378*790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 379*790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa depends on !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) 380*790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa help 381*790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 382*790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 383*790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 384*790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 385*790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 386*790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 387506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 389e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 390e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 39142d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) 392e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost help 393e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 394e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 395e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 396e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 397e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 398506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 400c64df707SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST_BOOTPARAM 401c64df707SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest boot parameter" 402c64df707SYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 403c64df707SYinghai Lu default y 404c64df707SYinghai Lu help 405c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 406c64df707SYinghai Lu to be disabled at boot. If this option is selected, memtest 407c64df707SYinghai Lu functionality can be disabled with memtest=0 on the kernel 408c64df707SYinghai Lu command line. The purpose of this option is to allow a single 409c64df707SYinghai Lu kernel image to be distributed with memtest built in, but not 410c64df707SYinghai Lu necessarily enabled. 411c64df707SYinghai Lu 412c64df707SYinghai Lu If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y. 413c64df707SYinghai Lu 414c64df707SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST_BOOTPARAM_VALUE 415c64df707SYinghai Lu int "Memtest boot parameter default value (0-4)" 416c64df707SYinghai Lu depends on MEMTEST_BOOTPARAM 417c64df707SYinghai Lu range 0 4 418c64df707SYinghai Lu default 0 419c64df707SYinghai Lu help 420c64df707SYinghai Lu This option sets the default value for the kernel parameter 421c64df707SYinghai Lu 'memtest', which allows memtest to be disabled at boot. If this 422c64df707SYinghai Lu option is set to 0 (zero), the memtest kernel parameter will 423c64df707SYinghai Lu default to 0, disabling memtest at bootup. If this option is 424c64df707SYinghai Lu set to 4, the memtest kernel parameter will default to 4, 425c64df707SYinghai Lu enabling memtest at bootup, and use that as pattern number. 426c64df707SYinghai Lu 427c64df707SYinghai Lu If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer 0. 428c64df707SYinghai Lu 429506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ACPI_SRAT 4303c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && ACPI && NUMA && (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) 432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 434506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_PARSE_SRAT 4353c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on ACPI_SRAT 437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 438506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 4393c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA && (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) 441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 442506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 4433c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH 445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 446506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ES7000_CLUSTERED_APIC 4473c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP && X86_ES7000 && MPENTIUMIII 449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 450506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 452506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 4533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec.htm>. 464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 471506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 4723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4739d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 477506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select AGP 482506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 485506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 494506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 511506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 512506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 5133c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5143c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 519506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 521506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 522506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5231b39b077SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 524fde9a109SFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU) 5251b39b077SFUJITA Tomonori 526506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 527506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 528506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 529506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 530506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 531506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 534506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 537506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 538506f1d07SSam Ravnborg int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-255)" 539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 2 255 540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "32" if X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000 542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "8" 543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 255 and the 546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 551506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 553b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 560506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 5613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 563b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 569506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 571506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER || X86_GENERICARCH) 574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 578506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 579506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 582506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 584506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 588506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 590506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 591506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 592506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 596506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 5973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && (X86_UP_APIC || ((X86_VISWS || SMP) && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_GENERICARCH)) 599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 600506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 6013c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 602506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && (X86_UP_IOAPIC || (SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER)) || X86_GENERICARCH)) 603506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 604506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 6053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 608506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Machine Check Exception" 610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the 613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). 614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. 616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the 617506f1d07SSam Ravnborg flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems 618506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is 619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" 620506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a 621506f1d07SSam Ravnborg problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" 622506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like 623506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. 624506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 625506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 6263c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6273c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 631506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 632506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 633506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 6343c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6353c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 636506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 637506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 638506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 640506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 641506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_NONFATAL 642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" 643506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 645506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which 646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. 647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). 648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. 649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying 650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. 651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option only does something on certain CPUs. 652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) 653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 654506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_P4THERMAL 655506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." 656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) && !X86_VISWS 657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enters thermal throttling. 660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 665506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 667506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 668506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 671506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 686506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 687506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 688506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 691506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 693506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 694506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 695506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 696506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 697506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 701506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 702506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 703506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 704506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 705506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 706506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 707506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 7083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool n 7093c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86 711506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 713506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 717506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 7195e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support" 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Intel processors in the IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Pentium III, Pentium 4, Xeon etc. You will obviously need the 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg actual microcode binary data itself which is not shipped with the 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux kernel. 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 735506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ingredients for this driver, check: 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 739506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 7433c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 749506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 753506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 754506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 755506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 771506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 772506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 774506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 775506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 782506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 796506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 824506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 834506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 835506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 838506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 840506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 845506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 846506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 847506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 848506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 849506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 850506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 852506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 853506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 856506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 857506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 858506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 859506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 860506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 861506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 862506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 864506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 865506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 866506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 8683c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 869506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 870506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 871506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 8723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool n 8733c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select RESOURCES_64BIT 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 878506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 883506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 886506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 887506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default n if X86_PC 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT) 889506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 892506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 893506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 894506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 895506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For i386 this is currently highly experimental and should be only 896506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used for kernel development. It might also cause boot failures. 897506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For x86_64 this is recommended on all multiprocessor Opteron systems. 898506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the system is EM64T, you should say N unless your system is 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborg EM64T NUMA. 900506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 901506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 902506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 903506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 904506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 9053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 9063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 907506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 908506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 909506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 910506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 911506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 912506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 913506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 914506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 9163c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 9173c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9236ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 9246ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 9256ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 9266ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 9276ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 9286ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 9296ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 9306ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 9316ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 941fa3f1f42SJack Steiner int "Max num nodes shift(1-15)" 94243238382Stravis@sgi.com range 1 15 if X86_64 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE 9493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 9533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 9573c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 9613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 966409a7b85SMel Gorman depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && X86_PC && !NUMA 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 970b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 974b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 975b263295dSChristoph Lameter 976b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 977b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 978b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 982b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_PC) 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 988b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1019506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1020506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1021506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1022506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1023506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1024506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1025506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1031506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 1033506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg See <file:Documentation/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10652e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 10662a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 10672e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com prompt "x86 PAT support" 10682a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 10692e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com help 10702e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1071042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 10722e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 10732e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 10742e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 10752e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1076042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 10772e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 10782e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 10792e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 10813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool n 10828b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying prompt "EFI runtime service support" 10835b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 10858b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10888b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 10898b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 10908b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 10918b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 10928b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 10938b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig IRQBALANCE 10963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable kernel irq balancing" 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP && X86_IO_APIC 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The default yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing. 1101506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying no will keep the kernel from doing irq load balancing. 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 11043c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on PROC_FS 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enabled via /proc/<pid>/seccomp, it cannot be disabled 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11222c020a99SLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborg feature puts, at the beginning of critical functions, a canary 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg value on the stack just before the return address, and validates 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg detected and for those versions, this configuration option is ignored. 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Use stack-protector for all functions" 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally, GCC only inserts the canary value protection for 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg functions that use large-ish on-stack buffers. By enabling 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this option, GCC will be asked to do this for ALL functions. 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 1148f408b43cSRandy Dunlap depends on X86_64 || X86_BIOS_REBOOT 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1166506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1168506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1169506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1170506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1171506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1172506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1173506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1174506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1175506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1176506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1177506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1178506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1179506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1180506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1184506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1185506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1186506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1187506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1188506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1191506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1193506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1194506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1195506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1196506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1197506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1198506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1199506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1200506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1201506f1d07SSam Ravnborg So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave 1202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. 1203506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump 1204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB 1205506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as 1206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter 1207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as 1208506f1d07SSam Ravnborg crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at 1209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. 1210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1221506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 1222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1238506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" if X86_32 1242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 0x2000 0x400000 1244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for suspend on SMP and hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && EXPERIMENTAL && !X86_VOYAGER 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on, and to 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable suspend on SMP systems. CPUs can be controlled through 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /sys/devices/system/cpu. 1270506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug and don't need to 1271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg suspend. 1272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1273506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 12743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12753c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1276af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1278af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1286506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1288506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1296e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Power management options" 1297e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 1298e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1299e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 13003c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1301e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1302e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1303e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1304e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1305e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1306e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1307a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1308a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1309a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1310a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1311a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1312e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1313e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1314e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP && !X86_VISWS 1315e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1316e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1317e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1318e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1319e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1320e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1321e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1322e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1323e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1324e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1325e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1326e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1327e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1328e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1329e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 133053471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1331e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1332e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1333e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1334e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1335e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1336e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1337e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1338e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1339e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1340e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1341e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1342e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1343e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1344e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1345e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1346e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1347e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1348e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1349e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1350e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1351e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1352e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1353e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1354e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1355e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1356e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1357e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1358e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1359e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1360e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1361e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1362e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1363e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1364e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1365e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1366e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1367e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1368e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1369e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1370e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1371e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1372e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1373e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1374e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 1375e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1376e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1377e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1378e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1379e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1380e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1381e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1382e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1383e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1384e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1385e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1386e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1387e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1388e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1389e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1390e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1391e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1392e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1393e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1394e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1395e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1396e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1397e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1398e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 1399e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1400e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1401e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1402e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1403e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1404e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1405e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1406e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1407e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1408e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1409e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 1410e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1411e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1412e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1413e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1414e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1415e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1416e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1417e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1418e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1419e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1420e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1421e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1422e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 1423e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1424e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1425e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1426e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1427e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1428e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1429e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1430e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1431e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF 1432e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off" 1433e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1434e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Use real mode APM BIOS calls to switch off the computer. This is 1435e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a work-around for a number of buggy BIOSes. Switch this option on if 1436e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your computer crashes instead of powering off properly. 1437e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1438e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1439e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1440e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1441e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1442e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1443e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1444e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1445e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1446e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1447e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1448e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1449e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 1450823c248eSRoman Zippel bool "PCI support" if !X86_VISWS && !X86_VSMP 1451e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 14521c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1453e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 1454e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1455e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1456e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1457e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1458e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1459e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1460e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1461e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1462e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && !X86_VISWS 1463e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1464e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1465e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1466e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1467e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1468e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1469e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1470e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1471e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1472e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1473e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1474e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1475e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1476e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1477e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1478e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1479e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1480e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1481e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1482e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1483e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1484e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1485e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1486e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1487e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1488e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOANY 1489e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Any" 1490e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1491e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1492e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1493e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 14943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1495e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !X86_VISWS && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1496e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1497e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1498e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 14993c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1500e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY) || X86_VISWS) 1501e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1502e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 15033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1504e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1505e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1506e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 15073c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1508e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1509e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1510e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1511e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1512e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1513e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1514e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1515e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1516e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 1517e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1518e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1519e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1520e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1521e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1522e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1523e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1524e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_GFX_WA 15253c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15263c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Support for Graphics workaround" 1527e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 1528e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1529e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 1530e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 1531e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 1532e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 1533e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg to use physical addresses for DMA. 1534e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1535e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 15363c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1537e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 1538e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1539e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls 1540e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1541e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1542e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1543e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1544e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1545e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1546e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1547e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1548e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1549e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 15503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1551e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1552e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1553e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1554e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1555e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 1556e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !(X86_VOYAGER || X86_VISWS) 1557e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1558e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1559e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1560e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1561e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1562e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1563e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1564e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1565e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1566e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1567e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1568e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1569e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1570e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1571e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1572e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1573e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1574e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1575e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1576e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1577e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1578e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1579e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1580e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1581e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1582e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 1583e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MCA support" if !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) 1584e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y if X86_VOYAGER 1585e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1586e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1587e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1588e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1589e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1590e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1591e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1592e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1593e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1594e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 1595e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 1596e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1597e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1598e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1599e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1600e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1601e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1602e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1603e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1604e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1605e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1606e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1607e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1608e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1609e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1610e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1611e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1612e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1613e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1614e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1615e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 16163c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 16173c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1618e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 1619e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1620e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 1621e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 1622e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 1623e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 1624e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1625bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 1626bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 1627e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 1628e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1629bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 1630e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1631e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 1632e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1633e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 1634e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1635e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1636e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1637e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1638e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 1639e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1640e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 1641e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1642e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 1643e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 1644e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1645a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 1646e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1647e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 1648e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 1649e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 1650e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1651e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 1652e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 1653b0b933c0SDavid Howells depends on IA32_EMULATION && ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT 1654e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1655e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 1656e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1657e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 16583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1659e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 1660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1661e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 1662e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 1663e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 16663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1667e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && COMPAT && SYSVIPC 1668e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1669e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1670e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1671e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1672e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 1673e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1674e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 1675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1676e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 1677e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1678e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 1679e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1680e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 1681e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1682e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 1683e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1684e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 1685e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1686edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 1687edf88417SAvi Kivity 1688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 1689