486, 586, Pentiums, and various instruction-set-compatible chips by
AMD, Cyrix, and others.
+config GENERIC_TIME
+ bool
+ default y
+
+config GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
+ bool
+ default y
+
+config CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
+ bool
+ default y
+
+config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
+ bool
+ default y
+
+config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
+ bool
+ default y
+ depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
+
+config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
+ bool
+ default y
+
+config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+ bool
+ default y
+
config SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS
bool
default y
bool
default y
+config ZONE_DMA
+ bool
+ default y
+
+config QUICKLIST
+ bool
+ default y
+
config SBUS
bool
bool
default y
+config GENERIC_BUG
+ bool
+ default y
+ depends on BUG
+
config GENERIC_HWEIGHT
bool
default y
menu "Processor type and features"
+source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
+
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
---help---
config X86_VOYAGER
bool "Voyager (NCR)"
+ select SMP if !BROKEN
help
Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary
to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based.
In particular, it is needed for the x440.
If you don't have one of these computers, you should say N here.
+ If you want to build a NUMA kernel, you must select ACPI.
config X86_BIGSMP
bool "Support for other sub-arch SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs"
config X86_GENERICARCH
bool "Generic architecture (Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default)"
- depends on SMP
help
This option compiles in the Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default subarchitectures.
It is intended for a generic binary kernel.
+ If you want a NUMA kernel, select ACPI. We need SRAT for NUMA.
config X86_ES7000
bool "Support for Unisys ES7000 IA32 series"
endchoice
+config SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
+ bool "Single-depth WCHAN output"
+ default y
+ help
+ Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option
+ is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the
+ caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values,
+ at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead.
+
+ If in doubt, say "Y".
+
+config PARAVIRT
+ bool "Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ depends on !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER)
+ help
+ Paravirtualization is a way of running multiple instances of
+ Linux on the same machine, under a hypervisor. This option
+ changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
+ under a hypervisor, improving performance significantly.
+ However, when run without a hypervisor the kernel is
+ theoretically slower. If in doubt, say N.
+
+source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
+
+config VMI
+ bool "VMI Paravirt-ops support"
+ depends on PARAVIRT
+ help
+ VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server
+ (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not
+ at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
+ provided by the hypervisor.
+
config ACPI_SRAT
bool
default y
- depends on NUMA && (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH)
+ depends on ACPI && NUMA && (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH)
select ACPI_NUMA
config HAVE_ARCH_PARSE_SRAT
config SCHED_SMT
bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support"
- depends on SMP
- default off
+ depends on X86_HT
help
SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making
when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a
config SCHED_MC
bool "Multi-core scheduler support"
- depends on SMP
+ depends on X86_HT
default y
help
Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision
config X86_UP_APIC
bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors"
- depends on !SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER)
+ depends on !SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER || X86_GENERICARCH)
help
A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU
config X86_LOCAL_APIC
bool
- depends on X86_UP_APIC || ((X86_VISWS || SMP) && !X86_VOYAGER)
+ depends on X86_UP_APIC || ((X86_VISWS || SMP) && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_GENERICARCH
default y
config X86_IO_APIC
bool
- depends on X86_UP_IOAPIC || (SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER))
+ depends on X86_UP_IOAPIC || (SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER)) || X86_GENERICARCH
default y
config X86_VISWS_APIC
will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened.
Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged).
Disable this if you don't want to see these messages.
- Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying hardware,
+ Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying
or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware.
This option only does something on certain CPUs.
(AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4)
Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4
enters thermal throttling.
+config VM86
+ default y
+ bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED
+ help
+ This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
+ code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like
+ XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
+ option saves about 6k.
+
config TOSHIBA
tristate "Toshiba Laptop support"
---help---
this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung
system.
- Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode GX1/CS5530A/TROM2.1.
- combination.
+ Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using
+ CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets.
Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to
enable this option even if you don't need it.
config MICROCODE
tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support"
+ select FW_LOADER
---help---
- If you say Y here and also to "/dev file system support" in the
- 'File systems' section, you will be able to update the microcode on
+ If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on
Intel processors in the IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II,
Pentium III, Pentium 4, Xeon etc. You will obviously need the
actual microcode binary data itself which is not shipped with the
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called microcode.
+config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE
+ bool
+ depends on MICROCODE
+ default y
+
config X86_MSR
tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support"
help
choice
prompt "High Memory Support"
- default NOHIGHMEM
+ default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ
+ default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ
config NOHIGHMEM
bool "off"
config HIGHMEM64G
bool "64GB"
- depends on X86_CMPXCHG64
+ depends on !M386 && !M486
+ select X86_PAE
help
Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4
gigabytes of physical RAM.
endchoice
choice
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !X86_PAE
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED
default VMSPLIT_3G
help
config VMSPLIT_3G
bool "3G/1G user/kernel split"
config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
+ depends on !X86_PAE
bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)"
config VMSPLIT_2G
bool "2G/2G user/kernel split"
+ config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
+ depends on !X86_PAE
+ bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)"
config VMSPLIT_1G
bool "1G/3G user/kernel split"
endchoice
config PAGE_OFFSET
hex
default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
- default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G
+ default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G
+ default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G
default 0xC0000000
default y
config X86_PAE
- bool
- depends on HIGHMEM64G
- default y
+ bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support"
+ default n
+ depends on !HIGHMEM4G
+ select RESOURCES_64BIT
+ help
+ PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables
+ larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It
+ has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
+ consumes more pagetable space per process.
# Common NUMA Features
config NUMA
- bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
- depends on SMP && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_GENERICARCH || (X86_SUMMIT && ACPI))
+ bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on SMP && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL
default n if X86_PC
default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT)
+ help
+ NUMA support for i386. This is currently highly experimental
+ and should be only used for kernel development. It might also
+ cause boot failures.
comment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI"
depends on X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI)
def_bool y
depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
-source "mm/Kconfig"
+config ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP
+ def_bool y
-config HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
- bool
- default y
- depends on NUMA
+source "mm/Kconfig"
config HIGHPTE
bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem"
intend to use this kernel on different machines.
More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor
- emulation can be found in <file:arch/i386/math-emu/README>.
+ emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>.
If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger
kernel, it won't hurt.
See <file:Documentation/mtrr.txt> for more information.
config EFI
- bool "Boot from EFI support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ bool "Boot from EFI support"
depends on ACPI
default n
---help---
- This enables the the kernel to boot on EFI platforms using
+ This enables the kernel to boot on EFI platforms using
system configuration information passed to it from the firmware.
This also enables the kernel to use any EFI runtime services that are
available (such as the EFI variable services).
depends on (((X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) && NUMA) || (X86 && EFI))
default y
-config REGPARM
- bool "Use register arguments"
- default y
- help
- Compile the kernel with -mregparm=3. This instructs gcc to use
- a more efficient function call ABI which passes the first three
- arguments of a function call via registers, which results in denser
- and faster code.
-
- If this option is disabled, then the default ABI of passing
- arguments via the stack is used.
-
- If unsure, say Y.
-
config SECCOMP
bool "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
depends on PROC_FS
source kernel/Kconfig.hz
config KEXEC
- bool "kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ bool "kexec system call"
help
kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot
- but it is indepedent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
+ but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
- The name comes from the similiarity to the exec system call.
+ The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call.
It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine
is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not
depends on HIGHMEM
help
Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
+ This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
+ which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
+ a specially reserved region and then later executed after
+ a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
+ to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using
+ PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image
+ (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y).
+ For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
config PHYSICAL_START
hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP)
-
- default "0x1000000" if CRASH_DUMP
+ default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ
default "0x100000"
help
- This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. Normally
- for regular kernels this value is 0x100000 (1MB). But in the case
- of kexec on panic the fail safe kernel needs to run at a different
- address than the panic-ed kernel. This option is used to set the load
- address for kernels used to capture crash dump on being kexec'ed
- after panic. The default value for crash dump kernels is
- 0x1000000 (16MB). This can also be set based on the "X" value as
+ This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded.
+
+ If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then
+ bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and
+ run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where
+ it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical
+ address.
+
+ In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option
+ as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image
+ (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different
+ address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want
+ to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a
+ vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs
+ to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area
+ (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy.
+
+ So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave
+ the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.
+ Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump
+ change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB
+ 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as
specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter
passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as
crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps.
+ Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as
+ one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used
+ as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have
+ gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it
+ is present because there are users out there who continue to use
+ vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the
+ line.
+
+ Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
+
+config RELOCATABLE
+ bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information
+ so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB.
+ The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger,
+ but are discarded at runtime.
+
+ One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel
+ must live at a different physical address than the primary
+ kernel.
+
+config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
+ hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned"
+ default "0x100000"
+ range 0x2000 0x400000
+ help
+ This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address
+ where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an
+ address which meets above alignment restriction.
+
+ If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
+ CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest
+ address aligned to above value and run from there.
+
+ If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
+ CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time
+ load address and decompress itself to the address it has been
+ compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is
+ compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the
+ end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting
+ above alignment restrictions.
+
Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
config HOTPLUG_CPU
- bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ bool "Support for suspend on SMP and hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && EXPERIMENTAL && !X86_VOYAGER
---help---
Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on, and to
enable suspend on SMP systems. CPUs can be controlled through
/sys/devices/system/cpu.
+config COMPAT_VDSO
+ bool "Compat VDSO support"
+ default y
+ help
+ Map the VDSO to the predictable old-style address too.
+ ---help---
+ Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc
+ version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped
+ VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
endmenu
+config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+ def_bool y
+ depends on HIGHMEM
menu "Power management options (ACPI, APM)"
depends on !X86_VOYAGER
source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig"
-menu "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS Support"
-depends on PM && !X86_VISWS
-
-config APM
+menuconfig APM
tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support"
- depends on PM
+ depends on PM_SLEEP && !X86_VISWS
---help---
APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different
techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called apm.
+if APM
+
config APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND
bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND"
- depends on APM
help
This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a
compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M
config APM_DO_ENABLE
bool "Enable PM at boot time"
- depends on APM
---help---
Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS
specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically
config APM_CPU_IDLE
bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle"
- depends on APM
help
Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop.
On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as
config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK
bool "Enable console blanking using APM"
- depends on APM
help
Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to
turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux
backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console,
especially if you are using gpm.
-config APM_RTC_IS_GMT
- bool "RTC stores time in GMT"
- depends on APM
- help
- Say Y here if your RTC (Real Time Clock a.k.a. hardware clock)
- stores the time in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Say N if your RTC
- stores localtime.
-
- It is in fact recommended to store GMT in your RTC, because then you
- don't have to worry about daylight savings time changes. The only
- reason not to use GMT in your RTC is if you also run a broken OS
- that doesn't understand GMT.
-
config APM_ALLOW_INTS
bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls"
- depends on APM
help
Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to
the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving
config APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF
bool "Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off"
- depends on APM
help
Use real mode APM BIOS calls to switch off the computer. This is
a work-around for a number of buggy BIOSes. Switch this option on if
your computer crashes instead of powering off properly.
-endmenu
+endif # APM
+
+source "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig_32"
-source "arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig"
+source "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig"
endmenu
bool "PCI support" if !X86_VISWS
depends on !X86_VOYAGER
default y if X86_VISWS
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC)
help
Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a
bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside
depends on PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY)
default y
+config PCI_DOMAINS
+ bool
+ depends on PCI
+ default y
+
source "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig"
source "drivers/pci/Kconfig"
tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support"
depends on !X86_VOYAGER
help
- This provides basic support for the National Semiconductor SCx200
- processor. Right now this is just a driver for the GPIO pins.
+ This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's
+ (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the
+ PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency
+ for other scx200_* drivers.
- If you don't know what to do here, say N.
+ If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200.
- This support is also available as a module. If compiled as a
- module, it will be called scx200.
+config SCx200HR_TIMER
+ tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support"
+ depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME
+ default y
+ help
+ This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip
+ 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for
+ NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the
+ processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The
+ other workaround is idle=poll boot option.
+
+config GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER
+ bool "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events"
+ depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
+ default y
+ help
+ This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT
+ timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode.
+ MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the
+ generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers.
+
+config K8_NB
+ def_bool y
+ depends on AGP_AMD64
source "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig"
source "fs/Kconfig"
-menu "Instrumentation Support"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
-
-source "arch/i386/oprofile/Kconfig"
-
-config KPROBES
- bool "Kprobes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL && MODULES
- help
- Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
- execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
- a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
- for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
- If in doubt, say "N".
-endmenu
-
source "arch/i386/Kconfig.debug"
source "security/Kconfig"
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