2 mainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86"
6 bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86"
7 default ARCH = "x86_64"
9 Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64
10 Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386
21 select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32
24 select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
27 select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS if (!M386 && !M486)
28 select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
30 select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
31 select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
33 select HAVE_KRETPROBES
34 select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
35 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
36 select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
37 select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
38 select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
39 select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
40 select HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER if DYNAMIC_FTRACE
41 select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
44 select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
45 select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32
46 select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
47 select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
48 select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
49 select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
50 select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
51 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
52 select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
53 select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK
57 default "elf32-i386" if X86_32
58 default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64
62 default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32
63 default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64
68 config GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
71 config CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
74 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
77 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
79 depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC)
81 config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
84 config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
87 config HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
99 config GENERIC_ISA_DMA
108 select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64
110 config GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
113 config GENERIC_HWEIGHT
119 config ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
122 config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
125 config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
128 config ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT
131 config GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
134 config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
138 config ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX
141 config ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE
144 config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE
147 config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
150 config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK
153 config NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK
156 config HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP
159 config ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE
162 config ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE
169 config ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP
176 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING
179 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
182 config HAVE_INTEL_TXT
184 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && DMAR && ACPI
186 # Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/:
187 config GENERIC_HARDIRQS
191 config GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ
194 config GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
198 config GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ
200 depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP
203 config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
209 depends on X86_32 && SMP
213 depends on X86_64 && SMP
220 config X86_TRAMPOLINE
222 depends on SMP || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP)
225 config X86_32_LAZY_GS
227 depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR
231 source "init/Kconfig"
232 source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"
234 menu "Processor type and features"
236 source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
239 bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
241 This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
242 a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If
243 you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y.
245 If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor
246 machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If
247 you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all,
248 singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel
249 will run faster if you say N here.
251 Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or
252 "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486
253 architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro"
254 architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards.
256 People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say
257 Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power
258 Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here.
260 See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>,
261 <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at
262 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
264 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
267 bool "Support x2apic"
268 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && INTR_REMAP
270 This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature.
272 This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems),
273 and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio.
275 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
278 bool "Support sparse irq numbering"
279 depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ
281 This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro
282 kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still
283 want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines.
285 ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread
286 out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. )
288 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
292 depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA
295 bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI
297 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
299 For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems
300 (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it
303 bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs"
304 depends on X86_32 && SMP
306 This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs
309 config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
310 bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
313 If you disable this option then the kernel will only support
314 standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of
317 If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support
318 for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms:
322 SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)
323 Summit/EXA (IBM x440)
324 Unisys ES7000 IA32 series
325 Moorestown MID devices
327 If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a
328 generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N.
332 config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
333 bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
336 If you disable this option then the kernel will only support
337 standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of
340 If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support
341 for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms:
345 If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a
346 generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N.
348 # This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms
349 # Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions
354 depends on X86_64 && PCI
355 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
357 Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is
358 supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option
359 if you have one of these machines.
362 bool "SGI Ultraviolet"
364 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
366 depends on X86_X2APIC
368 This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems.
369 If you don't have one of these, you should say N here.
371 # Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms
372 # Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions
377 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
379 Select this for an AMD Elan processor.
381 Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors!
383 If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead.
386 bool "Moorestown MID platform"
388 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
390 Moorestown is Intel's Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) based Moblin
391 Internet Device(MID) platform. Moorestown consists of two chips:
392 Lincroft (CPU core, graphics, and memory controller) and Langwell IOH.
393 Unlike standard x86 PCs, Moorestown does not have many legacy devices
394 nor standard legacy replacement devices/features. e.g. Moorestown does
395 not contain i8259, i8254, HPET, legacy BIOS, most of the io ports.
398 bool "RDC R-321x SoC"
400 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
402 select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
404 This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known
406 If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here.
408 config X86_32_NON_STANDARD
409 bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures"
410 depends on X86_32 && SMP
411 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
413 This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default
414 subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel.
415 if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will
418 # Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms
421 bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)"
422 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD
426 This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)
427 NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are
428 bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead
429 of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your
430 firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>.
432 config X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
434 # MCE code calls memory_failure():
436 # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags:
437 depends on !X86_NUMAQ
438 # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH:
439 depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM
440 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
444 bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)"
445 depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT
446 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD
448 The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation
449 based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached.
451 Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540.
453 A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general
454 PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details.
457 bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)"
458 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD
460 This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset.
461 In particular, it is needed for the x440.
464 bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series"
465 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP
467 Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is
468 supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system.
470 config SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
472 prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output"
475 Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option
476 is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the
477 caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values,
478 at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead.
480 If in doubt, say "Y".
482 menuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST
483 bool "Paravirtualized guest support"
485 Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under
486 various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
488 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.
492 source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
495 bool "VMI Guest support (DEPRECATED)"
499 VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server
500 (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not
501 at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
502 provided by the hypervisor.
504 As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement
505 of this feature from VMware's products. Please see
506 feature-removal-schedule.txt for details. If you are
507 planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot
508 live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product,
509 which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to
510 seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this
514 bool "KVM paravirtualized clock"
516 select PARAVIRT_CLOCK
518 Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock
519 when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT
520 (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host
521 provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and
525 bool "KVM Guest support"
528 This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM
531 source "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig"
534 bool "Enable paravirtualization code"
536 This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
537 under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly
538 over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor
539 the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger.
541 config PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
542 bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks"
543 depends on PARAVIRT && SMP && EXPERIMENTAL
545 Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the
546 spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly
547 (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning).
549 Unfortunately the downside is an up to 5% performance hit on
550 native kernels, with various workloads.
552 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
554 config PARAVIRT_CLOCK
560 config PARAVIRT_DEBUG
561 bool "paravirt-ops debugging"
562 depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL
564 Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if
565 a paravirt_op is missing when it is called.
570 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
572 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
573 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
575 memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns.
576 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
578 config X86_SUMMIT_NUMA
580 depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD
582 config X86_CYCLONE_TIMER
584 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD
586 source "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu"
590 prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32
592 Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage
593 time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is
595 HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s.
596 The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP
597 systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access,
598 as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at
599 <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>.
601 You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be
602 activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature.
603 Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services.
605 Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer.
607 config HPET_EMULATE_RTC
609 depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y)
611 # Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong.
612 # The code disables itself when not needed.
615 bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED
617 Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y
618 here unless you have verified that your setup is not
619 affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP
623 bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED
626 depends on X86_64 && PCI
628 Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only
629 on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB,
630 sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices.
631 Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART
632 based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used
633 on Intel systems and as fallback.
634 The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited
635 device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified
639 bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support"
641 depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
643 Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460
644 systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory
645 properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC
646 (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level
647 isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This
648 prevents them from going anywhere except their intended
649 destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and
650 mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API
651 properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be
652 turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter.
653 Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself.
656 config CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT
658 prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?"
659 depends on CALGARY_IOMMU
661 Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary
662 will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be
663 used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use
664 Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line.
668 bool "AMD IOMMU support"
671 depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI
673 With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in
674 your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides
675 remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you
676 can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the
677 system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware.
679 You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into
680 your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI
683 config AMD_IOMMU_STATS
684 bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs"
688 This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various
689 statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that
690 information to userspace via debugfs.
693 # need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround
697 Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems
698 which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation
699 of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only
700 access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than
701 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y.
704 def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU)
707 def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR)
710 bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes"
711 depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL
712 select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
715 Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture.
719 int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP
720 range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP
721 range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP
723 default "4096" if MAXSMP
724 default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000)
727 This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
728 kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the
729 minimum value which makes sense is 2.
731 This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds
732 approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image.
735 bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support"
738 SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making
739 when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a
740 cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say
745 prompt "Multi-core scheduler support"
748 Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision
749 making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly
750 increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
752 source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
755 bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors"
756 depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD
758 A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
759 integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU
760 system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to
761 enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't
762 have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at
763 all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer,
764 performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard
768 bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors"
769 depends on X86_UP_APIC
771 An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
772 SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most
773 SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one.
775 If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here
776 to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have
777 an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all.
779 config X86_LOCAL_APIC
781 depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC
785 depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC
787 config X86_VISWS_APIC
789 depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS
791 config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
792 bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs"
794 depends on X86_IO_APIC
796 This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of
797 spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded
798 interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of
799 superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled.
801 Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ
802 entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT
803 kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this
804 boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps
805 the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot
806 IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the
807 kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this
808 way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise
809 the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring
810 down (vital) interrupt lines.
812 Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be
813 increased on these systems.
816 bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
818 Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the
819 kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption).
820 The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem,
821 ranging from warning messages to halting the machine.
825 prompt "Intel MCE features"
826 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
828 Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as
833 prompt "AMD MCE features"
834 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
836 Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as
837 the DRAM Error Threshold.
839 config X86_ANCIENT_MCE
841 depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE
842 prompt "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks"
844 Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip
845 systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitely on the command
848 config X86_MCE_THRESHOLD
849 depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL
853 config X86_MCE_INJECT
855 tristate "Machine check injector support"
857 Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes.
858 If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel
859 QA it is safe to say n.
861 config X86_THERMAL_VECTOR
863 depends on X86_MCE_INTEL
866 bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED
870 This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
871 code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like
872 XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
873 option saves about 6k.
876 tristate "Toshiba Laptop support"
879 This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of
880 the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does
881 not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode
882 is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables.
884 For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the
885 Toshiba Linux utilities web site at:
886 <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>.
888 Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable.
892 tristate "Dell laptop support"
894 This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode
895 of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode
896 is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to
897 control the fans on the I8K portables.
899 This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may
900 also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other
901 models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at
904 For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the
905 I8K Linux utilities web site at:
906 <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/>
908 Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000.
911 config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
912 bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot"
915 This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done
916 in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on
917 some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which
918 this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung
921 Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using
922 CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC.
924 Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to
925 enable this option even if you don't need it.
929 tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support"
932 If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on
933 certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the
934 IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III,
935 Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and
936 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra.
937 You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself
938 which is not shipped with the Linux kernel.
940 This option selects the general module only, you need to select
941 at least one vendor specific module as well.
943 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
944 module will be called microcode.
946 config MICROCODE_INTEL
947 bool "Intel microcode patch loading support"
952 This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel
955 For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
956 Intel ingredients for this driver, check:
957 <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>.
960 bool "AMD microcode patch loading support"
964 If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD
965 processors will be enabled.
967 config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE
972 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support"
974 This device gives privileged processes access to the x86
975 Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with
976 major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr.
977 MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor
981 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support"
983 This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to
984 be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device
985 with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to
989 tristate "/sys/kernel/debug/x86/cpu/* - CPU Debug support"
991 If you select this option, this will provide various x86 CPUs
992 information through debugfs.
995 prompt "High Memory Support"
996 default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ
997 default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ
1002 depends on !X86_NUMAQ
1004 Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems.
1005 However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4
1006 Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of
1007 physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the
1008 kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called
1011 If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with
1012 more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default
1013 choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB"
1014 split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory
1015 space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used
1016 by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as
1019 If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then
1022 If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This
1023 selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on.
1024 PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully
1025 supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel
1026 processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here,
1027 then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE!
1029 The actual amount of total physical memory will either be
1030 auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option
1031 such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of
1032 your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the
1033 kernel at boot time.)
1035 If unsure, say "off".
1039 depends on !X86_NUMAQ
1041 Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4
1042 gigabytes of physical RAM.
1046 depends on !M386 && !M486
1049 Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4
1050 gigabytes of physical RAM.
1055 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
1056 prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED
1060 Select the desired split between kernel and user memory.
1062 If the address range available to the kernel is less than the
1063 physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available
1064 as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly
1065 than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first.
1066 Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range
1067 available to user programs, making the address space there
1068 tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split
1069 will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only
1072 If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this
1076 bool "3G/1G user/kernel split"
1077 config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
1079 bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)"
1081 bool "2G/2G user/kernel split"
1082 config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
1084 bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)"
1086 bool "1G/3G user/kernel split"
1091 default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
1092 default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G
1093 default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
1094 default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G
1100 depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G)
1103 bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support"
1104 depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G
1106 PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables
1107 larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It
1108 has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
1109 consumes more pagetable space per process.
1111 config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
1112 def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE
1114 config DIRECT_GBPAGES
1115 bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED
1119 Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that
1120 support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by
1121 reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y".
1123 # Common NUMA Features
1125 bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
1127 depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL)
1128 default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP)
1130 Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support.
1132 The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the
1133 local memory controller of the CPU and add some more
1134 NUMA awareness to the kernel.
1136 For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7
1137 (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA.
1139 For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms
1140 that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you
1141 boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform.
1143 Otherwise, you should say N.
1145 comment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI"
1146 depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI)
1150 prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection"
1151 depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI
1153 Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if
1154 you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old
1155 method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin
1156 Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
1157 instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in.
1159 config X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
1161 prompt "ACPI NUMA detection"
1162 depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI
1165 Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection.
1167 # Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span
1168 # other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and
1169 # between a node's start and end pfns, it may not
1170 # reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone()
1172 config NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
1174 depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
1177 bool "NUMA emulation"
1178 depends on X86_64 && NUMA
1180 Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split
1181 into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the
1182 number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging.
1185 int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP
1187 default "9" if MAXSMP
1188 default "6" if X86_64
1189 default "4" if X86_NUMAQ
1191 depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
1193 Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target
1194 system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables.
1196 config HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM
1198 depends on X86_32 && NUMA
1200 config ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
1202 depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM
1204 config NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE
1206 depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM)
1208 config HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP
1210 depends on X86_32 && NUMA
1212 config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
1214 depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA
1216 config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
1218 depends on NUMA && X86_32
1220 config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
1222 depends on NUMA && X86_32
1224 config ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT
1226 depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE
1228 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
1232 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
1234 depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD
1235 select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32
1236 select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64
1238 config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
1240 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
1242 config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
1244 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
1249 bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem"
1250 depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G)
1252 The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory.
1253 For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious
1254 low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table
1255 entries in high memory.
1257 config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
1258 bool "Check for low memory corruption"
1260 Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which
1261 is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the
1262 configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by
1263 setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command
1264 line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60
1265 seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and
1266 memory_corruption_check_period parameters in
1267 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this.
1269 When enabled with the default parameters, this option has
1270 almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount
1271 of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption
1272 and prevents it from affecting the running system.
1274 It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable
1275 BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory,
1276 you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that
1279 config X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK
1280 bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check"
1281 depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
1284 Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is
1287 config X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K
1288 bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen"
1291 Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known
1292 to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are
1293 known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not
1294 be used by the kernel.
1296 Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS
1297 to get all its memory reservations and usages right.
1299 If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not
1300 work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug
1301 events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable
1302 X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical
1303 corruption patterns.
1307 config MATH_EMULATION
1309 prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32
1311 Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point
1312 operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have
1313 a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added
1314 a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can
1315 give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a
1316 coprocessor or this emulation.
1318 If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you
1319 say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will
1320 be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel
1321 command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor
1322 is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot
1323 loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at
1324 boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you
1325 intend to use this kernel on different machines.
1327 More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor
1328 emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>.
1330 If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger
1331 kernel, it won't hurt.
1334 bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support"
1336 On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later)
1337 the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control
1338 processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have
1339 a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining
1340 allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer
1341 before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance
1342 of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a
1343 /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's
1344 MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this.
1346 This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar
1347 control registers on other processors can be easily supported
1350 The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range
1351 Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For
1352 these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs.
1353 The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two
1354 MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing
1355 write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code
1356 and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them.
1358 Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only
1359 set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This
1360 can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here.
1362 You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll
1363 just add about 9 KB to your kernel.
1365 See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information.
1367 config MTRR_SANITIZER
1369 prompt "MTRR cleanup support"
1372 Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can
1373 add writeback entries.
1375 Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line.
1376 The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with
1381 config MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT
1382 int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)"
1385 depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
1387 Enable mtrr cleanup default value
1389 config MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT
1390 int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)"
1393 depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
1395 mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via
1396 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line.
1400 prompt "x86 PAT support"
1403 Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control.
1405 PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more
1406 flexible than MTRRs.
1408 Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang,
1409 spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver.
1413 config ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED
1418 bool "EFI runtime service support"
1421 This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are
1422 available (such as the EFI variable services).
1424 This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware.
1425 In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available
1426 at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage
1427 of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the
1428 resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI
1433 prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
1435 This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
1436 that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
1437 execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to
1438 the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write
1439 syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in
1440 their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is
1441 enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled
1442 and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls
1443 defined by each seccomp mode.
1445 If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here.
1447 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
1450 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
1451 bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1452 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
1454 This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This
1455 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
1456 the stack just before the return address, and validates
1457 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
1458 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
1459 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
1460 neutralized via a kernel panic.
1462 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
1463 gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically
1464 detected and for those versions, this configuration option is
1465 ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup)
1467 source kernel/Kconfig.hz
1470 bool "kexec system call"
1472 kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
1473 current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot
1474 but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
1475 you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
1477 The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call.
1479 It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine
1480 is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not
1481 initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging
1482 support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is
1483 strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made.
1486 bool "kernel crash dumps"
1487 depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM)
1489 Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
1490 This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
1491 which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
1492 a specially reserved region and then later executed after
1493 a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
1494 to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using
1495 PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image
1496 (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y).
1497 For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
1500 bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1501 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
1502 depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION
1504 Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke
1505 code in physical address mode via KEXEC
1507 config PHYSICAL_START
1508 hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP)
1511 This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded.
1513 If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then
1514 bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and
1515 run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where
1516 it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical
1519 In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option
1520 as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image
1521 (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different
1522 address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want
1523 to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a
1524 vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs
1525 to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area
1526 (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy.
1528 So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump,
1529 leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set
1530 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux
1531 for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of
1532 the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on
1533 the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM"
1534 command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed
1535 kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
1536 for more details about crash dumps.
1538 Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as
1539 one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used
1540 as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have
1541 gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it
1542 is present because there are users out there who continue to use
1543 vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the
1546 Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
1549 bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
1552 This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information
1553 so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB.
1554 The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger,
1555 but are discarded at runtime.
1557 One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel
1558 must live at a different physical address than the primary
1561 Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address
1562 it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address
1563 (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored.
1565 # Relocation on x86-32 needs some additional build support
1566 config X86_NEED_RELOCS
1568 depends on X86_32 && RELOCATABLE
1570 config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
1572 prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32
1574 range 0x2000 0x1000000
1576 This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address
1577 where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an
1578 address which meets above alignment restriction.
1580 If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
1581 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest
1582 address aligned to above value and run from there.
1584 If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
1585 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time
1586 load address and decompress itself to the address it has been
1587 compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is
1588 compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the
1589 end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting
1590 above alignment restrictions.
1592 Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
1595 bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"
1596 depends on SMP && HOTPLUG
1598 Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be
1599 controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu.
1600 ( Note: power management support will enable this option
1601 automatically on SMP systems. )
1602 Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug.
1606 prompt "Compat VDSO support"
1607 depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
1609 Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too.
1611 Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc
1612 version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped
1613 VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO.
1618 bool "Built-in kernel command line"
1621 Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at
1622 build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is
1623 necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the
1624 kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is,
1625 to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.)
1627 To compile command line arguments into the kernel,
1628 set this option to 'Y', then fill in the
1629 the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE.
1631 Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded)
1632 should leave this option set to 'N'.
1635 string "Built-in kernel command string"
1636 depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
1639 Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel
1640 image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a
1641 command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to
1642 form the full kernel command line, when the system boots.
1644 However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to
1645 change this behavior.
1647 In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided
1648 by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root
1651 config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE
1652 bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments"
1654 depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
1656 Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader
1657 command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line.
1659 This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should
1660 be set to 'N' under normal conditions.
1664 config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
1666 depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM)
1668 config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
1670 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
1672 config HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
1676 menu "Power management and ACPI options"
1678 config ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER
1680 depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION
1682 source "kernel/power/Kconfig"
1684 source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig"
1686 source "drivers/sfi/Kconfig"
1691 depends on APM || APM_MODULE
1694 tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support"
1695 depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP
1697 APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different
1698 techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with
1699 APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be
1700 reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide
1701 battery status information, and user-space programs will receive
1702 notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change).
1704 If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM
1705 BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time.
1707 Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for
1708 machines with more than one CPU.
1710 In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location
1711 and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the
1712 Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from
1713 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1715 This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8)
1716 manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off
1717 VESA-compliant "green" monitors.
1719 This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER
1720 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green"
1721 desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver
1722 may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase.
1724 Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't
1725 much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get
1726 random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to
1727 anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling
1730 Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random,
1733 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is
1735 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel
1736 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass
1737 the "no387" option to the kernel
1738 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel
1739 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling
1740 all but the first 4 MB of RAM)
1741 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked.
1742 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/>
1743 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings
1744 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM
1745 10) install a better fan for the CPU
1746 11) exchange RAM chips
1747 12) exchange the motherboard.
1749 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
1750 module will be called apm.
1754 config APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND
1755 bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND"
1757 This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a
1758 compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M
1759 series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug.
1761 config APM_DO_ENABLE
1762 bool "Enable PM at boot time"
1764 Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS
1765 specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically
1766 power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend
1767 State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls."
1768 This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this
1769 feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This
1770 should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features
1771 will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn
1772 this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM
1773 support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn
1774 this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba
1775 T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without
1779 bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle"
1781 Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop.
1782 On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as
1783 a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls
1784 are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g.,
1785 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or
1786 whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU,
1787 this option does nothing.)
1789 config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK
1790 bool "Enable console blanking using APM"
1792 Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to
1793 turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux
1794 virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by
1795 the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight
1796 when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to
1797 do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this
1798 option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your
1799 backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console,
1800 especially if you are using gpm.
1802 config APM_ALLOW_INTS
1803 bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls"
1805 Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to
1806 the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving
1807 BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it
1808 needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in
1809 many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you
1810 suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N.
1814 source "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig"
1816 source "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig"
1818 source "drivers/idle/Kconfig"
1823 menu "Bus options (PCI etc.)"
1828 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC)
1830 Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a
1831 bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside
1832 your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or
1833 VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N.
1836 prompt "PCI access mode"
1837 depends on X86_32 && PCI
1840 On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and
1841 determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards
1842 have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded
1843 PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to
1844 detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS.
1846 With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the
1847 PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used,
1848 if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you
1849 choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used.
1850 If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the
1851 direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't
1852 work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any".
1857 config PCI_GOMMCONFIG
1874 depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY)
1876 # x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct.
1879 depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC))
1883 depends on X86_32 && PCI && (ACPI || SFI) && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY)
1887 depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY)
1894 bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access"
1895 depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI
1898 bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1899 depends on PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL
1901 DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address
1902 translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices.
1903 These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables
1904 and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA
1907 config DMAR_DEFAULT_ON
1909 prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default"
1912 Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if
1913 one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can
1914 be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is
1915 recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains
1918 config DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA
1920 prompt "Workaround broken graphics drivers (going away soon)"
1921 depends on DMAR && BROKEN
1923 Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address
1924 for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config
1925 option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for
1926 all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue
1927 to use physical addresses for DMA, at least until this
1928 option is removed in the 2.6.32 kernel.
1930 config DMAR_FLOPPY_WA
1934 Floppy disk drivers are known to bypass DMA API calls
1935 thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This
1936 workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first
1937 16MiB to make floppy (an ISA device) work.
1940 bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1941 depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL
1943 Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices.
1944 To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or
1945 to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y.
1947 source "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig"
1949 source "drivers/pci/Kconfig"
1951 # x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA.
1960 Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the
1961 name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff
1962 inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel
1963 (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI;
1964 newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N.
1970 The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was
1971 developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus.
1973 The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel
1974 bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for
1975 the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and
1976 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus.
1978 Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine.
1982 source "drivers/eisa/Kconfig"
1987 MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and
1988 laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See
1989 <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given
1990 there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel.
1992 source "drivers/mca/Kconfig"
1995 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support"
1997 This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's
1998 (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the
1999 PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency
2000 for other scx200_* drivers.
2002 If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200.
2004 config SCx200HR_TIMER
2005 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support"
2006 depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME
2009 This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip
2010 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for
2011 NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the
2012 processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The
2013 other workaround is idle=poll boot option.
2015 config GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER
2017 prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events"
2018 depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
2020 This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT
2021 timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode.
2022 MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the
2023 generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers.
2026 bool "One Laptop Per Child support"
2029 Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC
2036 depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA)))
2038 source "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig"
2040 source "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig"
2045 menu "Executable file formats / Emulations"
2047 source "fs/Kconfig.binfmt"
2049 config IA32_EMULATION
2050 bool "IA32 Emulation"
2052 select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF
2054 Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should
2055 likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any
2056 32-bit programs left.
2059 tristate "IA32 a.out support"
2060 depends on IA32_EMULATION
2062 Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation.
2066 depends on IA32_EMULATION
2068 config COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT
2072 config SYSVIPC_COMPAT
2074 depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC
2079 config HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP
2083 source "net/Kconfig"
2085 source "drivers/Kconfig"
2087 source "drivers/firmware/Kconfig"
2091 source "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug"
2093 source "security/Kconfig"
2095 source "crypto/Kconfig"
2097 source "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig"
2099 source "lib/Kconfig"