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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 22 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig index 02dd39457bcf..7982cbc3bc94 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig @@ -152,18 +152,18 @@ config MPSC Optimize for Intel Pentium 4 and older Nocona/Dempsey Xeon CPUs with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology(EM64T). For details see <http://www.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/>. - Note the the latest Xeons (Xeon 51xx and 53xx) are not based on the - Netburst core and shouldn't use this option. You can distingush them + Note that the latest Xeons (Xeon 51xx and 53xx) are not based on the + Netburst core and shouldn't use this option. You can distinguish them using the cpu family field - in /proc/cpuinfo. Family 15 is a older Xeon, Family 6 a newer one - (this rule only applies to system that support EM64T) + in /proc/cpuinfo. Family 15 is an older Xeon, Family 6 a newer one + (this rule only applies to systems that support EM64T) config MCORE2 bool "Intel Core2 / newer Xeon" help Optimize for Intel Core2 and newer Xeons (51xx) - You can distingush the newer Xeons from the older ones using - the cpu family field in /proc/cpuinfo. 15 is a older Xeon + You can distinguish the newer Xeons from the older ones using + the cpu family field in /proc/cpuinfo. 15 is an older Xeon (use CONFIG_MPSC then), 6 is a newer one. This rule only applies to CPUs that support EM64T. @@ -458,8 +458,8 @@ config IOMMU on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART - based IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used on Intel - systems and as fallback. + based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used + on Intel systems and as fallback. The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified too. @@ -496,6 +496,12 @@ config CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT # need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround config SWIOTLB bool + help + Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems + which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation + of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only + access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than + 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. config X86_MCE bool "Machine check support" if EMBEDDED |