#
# For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
# see Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.
#
config ALPHA
bool
default y
help
The Alpha is a 64-bit general-purpose processor designed and
marketed by the Digital Equipment Corporation of blessed memory, now
Compaq. Alpha Linux dates from 1995-1996 and was the first non-x86
port. The Alpha Linux project has a home page at
<http://www.alphalinux.org/>.
config MMU
bool
default y
config SWAP
bool
default y
config UID16
bool
config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
bool
config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
bool
default y
config GENERIC_ISA_DMA
bool
default y
source "init/Kconfig"
menu "System setup"
choice
prompt "Alpha system type"
default ALPHA_GENERIC
config ALPHA_GENERIC
bool "Generic"
---help---
This is the system type of your hardware. A "generic" kernel will
run on any supported Alpha system. However, if you configure a
kernel for your specific system, it will be faster and smaller.
To find out what type of Alpha system you have, you may want to
check out the Linux/Alpha FAQ, accessible on the WWW from
<http://www.alphalinux.org/>. In summary:
Alcor/Alpha-XLT AS 600
Alpha-XL XL-233, XL-266
AlphaBook1 Alpha laptop
Avanti AS 200, AS 205, AS 250, AS 255, AS 300, AS 400
Cabriolet AlphaPC64, AlphaPCI64
DP264 DP264
EB164 EB164 21164 evaluation board
EB64+ EB64+ 21064 evaluation board
EB66 EB66 21066 evaluation board
EB66+ EB66+ 21066 evaluation board
Jensen DECpc 150, DEC 2000 model 300,
DEC 2000 model 500
LX164 AlphaPC164-LX
Miata Personal Workstation 433a, 433au, 500a,
500au, 600a, or 600au
Mikasa AS 1000
Noname AXPpci33, UDB (Multia)
Noritake AS 1000A, AS 600A, AS 800
PC164 AlphaPC164
Rawhide AS 1200, AS 4000, AS 4100
Ruffian RPX164-2, AlphaPC164-UX, AlphaPC164-BX
SX164 AlphaPC164-SX
Sable AS 2000, AS 2100
Shark DS 20L
Takara Takara
Titan Privateer
Wildfire AlphaServer GS 40/80/160/320
If you don't know what to do, choose "generic".
config ALPHA_ALCOR
bool "Alcor/Alpha-XLT"
help
For systems using the Digital ALCOR chipset: 5 chips (4, 64-bit data
slices (Data Switch, DSW) - 208-pin PQFP and 1 control (Control, I/O
Address, CIA) - a 383 pin plastic PGA). It provides a DRAM
controller (256-bit memory bus) and a PCI interface. It also does
all the work required to support an external Bcache and to maintain
memory coherence when a PCI device DMAs into (or out of) memory.
config ALPHA_XL
bool "Alpha-XL"
help
XL-233 and XL-266-based Alpha systems.
config ALPHA_BOOK1
bool "AlphaBook1"
help
Dec AlphaBook1/Burns Alpha-based laptops.
config ALPHA_AVANTI_CH
bool "Avanti"
config ALPHA_CABRIOLET
bool "Cabriolet"
help
Cabriolet AlphaPC64, AlphaPCI64 systems. Derived from EB64+ but now
baby-AT with Flash boot ROM, no on-board SCSI or Ethernet. 3 ISA
slots, 4 PCI slots (one pair are on a shared slot), uses plug-in
Bcache SIMMs. Requires power supply with 3.3V output.
config ALPHA_DP264
bool "DP264"
help
Various 21264 systems with the tsunami core logic chipset.
API Networks: 264DP, UP2000(+), CS20;
Compaq: DS10(E,L), XP900, XP1000, DS20(E), ES40.
config ALPHA_EB164
bool "EB164"
help
EB164 21164 evaluation board from DEC. Uses 21164 and ALCOR. Has
ISA and PCI expansion (3 ISA slots, 2 64-bit PCI slots (one is
shared with an ISA slot) and 2 32-bit PCI slots. Uses plus-in
Bcache SIMMs. I/O sub-system provides SuperI/O (2S, 1P, FD), KBD,
MOUSE (PS2 style), RTC/NVRAM. Boot ROM is Flash. PC-AT-sized
motherboard. Requires power supply with 3.3V output.
config ALPHA_EB64P_CH
bool "EB64+"
config ALPHA_EB66
bool "EB66"
help
A Digital DS group board. Uses 21066 or 21066A. I/O sub-system is
identical to EB64+. Baby PC-AT size. Runs from standard PC power
supply. The EB66 schematic was published as a marketing poster
advertising the 21066 as "the first microprocessor in the world with
embedded PCI".
config ALPHA_EB66P
bool "EB66+"
help
Later variant of the EB66 board.
config ALPHA_EIGER
bool "Eiger"
help
Apparently an obscure OEM single-board computer based on the
Typhoon/Tsunami chipset family. Information on it is scanty.
config ALPHA_JENSEN
bool "Jensen"
help
DEC PC 150 AXP (aka Jensen): This is a very old Digital system - one
of the first-generation Alpha systems. A number of these systems
seem to be available on the second- hand market. The Jensen is a
floor-standing tower system which originally used a 150MHz 21064 It
used programmable logic to interface a 486 EISA I/O bridge to the
CPU.
config ALPHA_LX164
bool "LX164"
help
A technical overview of this board is available at
<http://www.unix-ag.org/Linux-Alpha/Architectures/LX164.html>.
config ALPHA_MIATA
bool "Miata"
help
The Digital PersonalWorkStation (PWS 433a, 433au, 500a, 500au, 600a,
or 600au). There is an Installation HOWTO for this hardware at
<http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~s.vandereijk/miata.html>.
config ALPHA_MIKASA
bool "Mikasa"
help
AlphaServer 1000-based Alpha systems.
config ALPHA_NAUTILUS
bool "Nautilus"
help
Alpha systems based on the AMD 751 & ALI 1543C chipsets.
config ALPHA_NONAME_CH
bool "Noname"
config ALPHA_NORITAKE
bool "Noritake"
help
AlphaServer 1000A, AlphaServer 600A, and AlphaServer 800-based
systems.
config ALPHA_PC164
bool "PC164"
config ALPHA_P2K
bool "Platform2000"
config ALPHA_RAWHIDE
bool "Rawhide"
help
AlphaServer 1200, AlphaServer 4000 and AlphaServer 4100 machines.
See HOWTO at
<http://www.alphalinux.org/docs/rawhide/4100_install.shtml>.
config ALPHA_RUFFIAN
bool "Ruffian"
help
Samsung APC164UX. There is a page on known problems and workarounds
at <http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/FAQ-11.html>.
config ALPHA_RX164
bool "RX164"
config ALPHA_SX164
bool "SX164"
config ALPHA_SABLE
bool "Sable"
help
Digital AlphaServer 2000 and 2100-based systems.
config ALPHA_SHARK
bool "Shark"
config ALPHA_TAKARA
bool "Takara"
help
Alpha 11164-based OEM single-board computer.
config ALPHA_TITAN
bool "Titan"
config ALPHA_WILDFIRE
bool "Wildfire"
help
AlphaServer GS 40/80/160/320 SMP based on the EV67 core.
endchoice
# clear all implied options (don't want default values for those):
# Most of these machines have ISA slots; not exactly sure which don't,
# and this doesn't activate hordes of code, so do it always.
config ISA
bool
default y
help
Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the
name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff
inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel
(MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI;
newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N.
config EISA
bool
default y
---help---
The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was
developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus.
The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel
bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for
the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and
1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus.
Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine.
Otherwise, say N.
config SBUS
bool
config MCA
bool
help
MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and
laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See
<file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given
there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel.
config PCI
bool
depends on !ALPHA_JENSEN
default y
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
your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or
VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N.
The PCI-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>, contains valuable
information about which PCI hardware does work under Linux and which
doesn't.
config ALPHA_NONAME
bool
depends on ALPHA_BOOK1 || ALPHA_NONAME_CH
default y
help
The AXPpci33 (aka NoName), is based on the EB66 (includes the Multia
UDB). This design was produced by Digital's Technical OEM (TOEM)
group. It uses the 21066 processor running at 166MHz or 233MHz. It
is a baby-AT size, and runs from a standard PC power supply. It has
5 ISA slots and 3 PCI slots (one pair are a shared slot). There are
2 versions, with either PS/2 or large DIN connectors for the
keyboard.
config ALPHA_EV4
bool
depends on ALPHA_JENSEN || ALPHA_SABLE && !ALPHA_GAMMA || ALPHA_NORITAKE && !ALPHA_PRIMO || ALPHA_MIKASA && !ALPHA_PRIMO || ALPHA_CABRIOLET || ALPHA_AVANTI_CH || ALPHA_EB64P_CH || ALPHA_XL || ALPHA_NONAME || ALPHA_EB66 || ALPHA_EB66P || ALPHA_P2K
default y
config ALPHA_LCA
bool
depends on ALPHA_NONAME || ALPHA_EB66 || ALPHA_EB66P || ALPHA_P2K
default y
config ALPHA_APECS
bool
depends on !ALPHA_PRIMO && (ALPHA_NORITAKE || ALPHA_MIKASA) || ALPHA_CABRIOLET || ALPHA_AVANTI_CH || ALPHA_EB64P_CH || ALPHA_XL
default y
config ALPHA_EB64P
bool
depends on ALPHA_CABRIOLET || ALPHA_EB64P_CH
default y
help
Uses 21064 or 21064A and APECs. Has ISA and PCI expansion (3 ISA,
2 PCI, one pair are on a shared slot). Supports 36-bit DRAM SIMs.
ISA bus generated by Intel SaturnI/O PCI-ISA bridge. On-board SCSI
(NCR 810 on PCI) Ethernet (Digital 21040), KBD, MOUSE (PS2 style),
SuperI/O (2S, 1P, FD), RTC/NVRAM. Boot ROM is EPROM. PC-AT size.
Runs from standard PC power supply.
config ALPHA_EV5
bool
depends on ALPHA_RX164 || ALPHA_RAWHIDE || ALPHA_MIATA || ALPHA_LX164 || ALPHA_SX164 || ALPHA_RUFFIAN || ALPHA_SABLE && ALPHA_GAMMA || ALPHA_NORITAKE && ALPHA_PRIMO || ALPHA_MIKASA && ALPHA_PRIMO || ALPHA_PC164 || ALPHA_TAKARA || ALPHA_EB164 || ALPHA_ALCOR
default y
config ALPHA_CIA
bool
depends on ALPHA_MIATA || ALPHA_LX164 || ALPHA_SX164 || ALPHA_RUFFIAN || ALPHA_NORITAKE && ALPHA_PRIMO || ALPHA_MIKASA && ALPHA_PRIMO || ALPHA_PC164 || ALPHA_TAKARA || ALPHA_EB164 || ALPHA_ALCOR
default y
config ALPHA_EV56
bool "EV56 CPU (speed >= 366MHz)?" if ALPHA_ALCOR
default y if ALPHA_RX164 || ALPHA_MIATA || ALPHA_LX164 || ALPHA_SX164 || ALPHA_RUFFIAN || ALPHA_PC164 || ALPHA_TAKARA
config ALPHA_EV56
prompt "EV56 CPU (speed >= 333MHz)?"
depends on ALPHA_NORITAKE && ALPHA_PRIMO
config ALPHA_EV56
prompt "EV56 CPU (speed >= 400MHz)?"
depends on ALPHA_RAWHIDE
config ALPHA_PRIMO
bool "EV5 CPU daughtercard (model 5/xxx)?"
depends on ALPHA_NORITAKE || ALPHA_MIKASA
help
Say Y if you have an AS 1000 5/xxx or an AS 1000A 5/xxx.
config ALPHA_GAMMA
bool "EV5 CPU(s) (model 5/xxx)?"
depends on ALPHA_SABLE
help
Say Y if you have an AS 2000 5/xxx or an AS 2100 5/xxx.
config ALPHA_T2
bool
depends on ALPHA_SABLE
default y
config ALPHA_PYXIS
bool
depends on ALPHA_MIATA || ALPHA_LX164 || ALPHA_SX164 || ALPHA_RUFFIAN
default y
config ALPHA_EV6
bool
depends on ALPHA_NAUTILUS || ALPHA_WILDFIRE || ALPHA_TITAN || ALPHA_SHARK || ALPHA_DP264 || ALPHA_EIGER
default y
config ALPHA_TSUNAMI
bool
depends on ALPHA_SHARK || ALPHA_DP264 || ALPHA_EIGER
default y
config ALPHA_EV67
bool "EV67 (or later) CPU (speed > 600MHz)?" if ALPHA_DP264 || ALPHA_EIGER
default y if ALPHA_NAUTILUS || ALPHA_WILDFIRE || ALPHA_TITAN || ALPHA_SHARK
help
Is this a machine based on the EV67 core? If in doubt, select N here
and the machine will be treated as an EV6.
config ALPHA_MCPCIA
bool
depends on ALPHA_RAWHIDE
default y
config ALPHA_POLARIS
bool
depends on ALPHA_RX164
default y
config ALPHA_IRONGATE
bool
depends on ALPHA_NAUTILUS
default y
config ALPHA_SRM
bool "Use SRM as bootloader" if ALPHA_CABRIOLET || ALPHA_AVANTI_CH || ALPHA_EB64P || ALPHA_PC164 || ALPHA_TAKARA || ALPHA_EB164 || ALPHA_ALCOR || ALPHA_MIATA || ALPHA_LX164 || ALPHA_SX164 || ALPHA_NAUTILUS || ALPHA_NONAME
default y if ALPHA_JENSEN || ALPHA_MIKASA || ALPHA_SABLE || ALPHA_NORITAKE || ALPHA_DP264 || ALPHA_RAWHIDE || ALPHA_EIGER || ALPHA_WILDFIRE || ALPHA_TITAN || ALPHA_SHARK
---help---
There are two different types of booting firmware on Alphas: SRM,
which is command line driven, and ARC, which uses menus and arrow
keys. Details about the Linux/Alpha booting process are contained in
the Linux/Alpha FAQ, accessible on the WWW from
<http://www.alphalinux.org/>.
The usual way to load Linux on an Alpha machine is to use MILO
(a bootloader that lets you pass command line parameters to the
kernel just like lilo does for the x86 architecture) which can be
loaded either from ARC or can be installed directly as a permanent
firmware replacement from floppy (which requires changing a certain
jumper on the motherboard). If you want to do either of these, say N
here. If MILO doesn't work on your system (true for Jensen
motherboards), you can bypass it altogether and boot Linux directly
from an SRM console; say Y here in order to do that. Note that you
won't be able to boot from an IDE disk using SRM.
If unsure, say N.
config ALPHA_EISA
bool
depends on ALPHA_ALCOR || ALPHA_MIKASA || ALPHA_SABLE || ALPHA_NORITAKE || ALPHA_RAWHIDE
default y
config ALPHA_AVANTI
bool
depends on ALPHA_XL || ALPHA_AVANTI_CH
default y
help
Avanti AS 200, AS 205, AS 250, AS 255, AS 300, and AS 400-based
Alphas. Info at
<http://www.unix-ag.org/Linux-Alpha/Architectures/Avanti.html>.
config ALPHA_BROKEN_IRQ_MASK
bool
depends on ALPHA_GENERIC || ALPHA_PC164
default y
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
depends on ALPHA_SABLE || ALPHA_RAWHIDE || ALPHA_DP264 || ALPHA_WILDFIRE || ALPHA_TITAN || ALPHA_GENERIC || ALPHA_SHARK
---help---
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If
you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y.
If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor
machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If
you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all,
singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel
will run faster if you say N here.
Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or
"Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486
architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro"
architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards.
People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say
Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power
Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here.
See also the <file:Documentation/smp.tex>,
<file:Documentation/smp.txt>, <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>,
<file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>.
If you don't know what to do here, say N.
config HAVE_DEC_LOCK
bool
depends on SMP
default y
config NR_CPUS
int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-64)"
depends on SMP
default "64"
config DISCONTIGMEM
bool "Discontiguous Memory Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
help
Say Y to upport efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
for architectures which are either NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access)
or have huge holes in the physical address space for other reasons.
See <file:Documentation/vm/numa> for more.
config NUMA
bool "NUMA Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on DISCONTIGMEM
help
Say Y to compile the kernel to support NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory
Access). This option is for configuring high-end multiprocessor
server machines. If in doubt, say N.
# LARGE_VMALLOC is racy, if you *really* need it then fix it first
config ALPHA_LARGE_VMALLOC
bool
---help---
Process creation and other aspects of virtual memory management can
be streamlined if we restrict the kernel to one PGD for all vmalloc
allocations. This equates to about 8GB.
Under normal circumstances, this is so far and above what is needed
as to be laughable. However, there are certain applications (such
as benchmark-grade in-kernel web serving) that can make use of as
much vmalloc space as is available.
Say N unless you know you need gobs and gobs of vmalloc space.
config VERBOSE_MCHECK
bool "Verbose Machine Checks"
source "drivers/pci/Kconfig"
config HOTPLUG
bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices"
---help---
Say Y here if you want to plug devices into your computer while
the system is running, and be able to use them quickly. In many
cases, the devices can likewise be unplugged at any time too.
One well known example of this is PCMCIA- or PC-cards, credit-card
size devices such as network cards, modems or hard drives which are
plugged into slots found on all modern laptop computers. Another
example, used on modern desktops as well as laptops, is USB.
Enable HOTPLUG and KMOD, and build a modular kernel. Get agent
software (at <http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/>) and install it.
Then your kernel will automatically call out to a user mode "policy
agent" (/sbin/hotplug) to load modules and set up software needed
to use devices as you hotplug them.
source "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig"
choice
prompt "Kernel core (/proc/kcore) format"
depends on PROC_FS
default KCORE_ELF
config KCORE_ELF
bool "ELF"
---help---
If you enabled support for /proc file system then the file
/proc/kcore will contain the kernel core image. This can be used
in gdb:
$ cd /usr/src/linux ; gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore
You have two choices here: ELF and A.OUT. Selecting ELF will make
/proc/kcore appear in ELF core format as defined by the Executable
and Linking Format specification. Selecting A.OUT will choose the
old "a.out" format which may be necessary for some old versions
of binutils or on some architectures.
This is especially useful if you have compiled the kernel with the
"-g" option to preserve debugging information. It is mainly used
for examining kernel data structures on the live kernel so if you
don't understand what this means or are not a kernel hacker, just
leave it at its default value ELF.
config KCORE_AOUT
bool "A.OUT"
help
Not necessary unless you're using a very out-of-date binutils
version. You probably want KCORE_ELF.
endchoice
config SRM_ENV
tristate "SRM environment through procfs"
depends on PROC_FS
---help---
If you enable this option, a subdirectory inside /proc called
/proc/srm_environment will give you access to the all important
SRM environment variables (those which have a name) and also
to all others (by their internal number).
SRM is something like a BIOS for Alpha machines. There are some
other such BIOSes, like AlphaBIOS, which this driver cannot
support (hey, that's not SRM!).
Despite the fact that this driver doesn't work on all Alphas (but
only on those which have SRM as their firmware), it's save to
build it even if your particular machine doesn't know about SRM
(or if you intend to compile a generic kernel). It will simply
not create those subdirectory in /proc (and give you some warning,
of course).
This driver is also available as a module and will be called
srm_env.o then.
config BINFMT_AOUT
tristate "Kernel support for a.out (ECOFF) binaries"
---help---
A.out (Assembler.OUTput) is a set of formats for libraries and
executables used in the earliest versions of UNIX. Linux used the
a.out formats QMAGIC and ZMAGIC until they were replaced with the
ELF format.
As more and more programs are converted to ELF, the use for a.out
will gradually diminish. If you disable this option it will reduce
your kernel by one page. This is not much and by itself does not
warrant removing support. However its removal is a good idea if you
wish to ensure that absolutely none of your programs will use this
older executable format. If you don't know what to answer at this
point then answer Y. If someone told you "You need a kernel with
QMAGIC support" then you'll have to say Y here. You may answer M to
compile a.out support as a module and later load the module when you
want to use a program or library in a.out format. The module will be
called binfmt_aout.o. Saying M or N here is dangerous though,
because some crucial programs on your system might still be in A.OUT
format.
config OSF4_COMPAT
bool "OSF/1 v4 readv/writev compatibility"
depends on BINFMT_AOUT
help
Say Y if you are using OSF/1 binaries (like Netscape and Acrobat)
with v4 shared libraries freely available from Compaq. If you're
going to use shared libraries from Tru64 version 5.0 or later, say N.
config BINFMT_ELF
tristate "Kernel support for ELF binaries"
---help---
ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) is a format for libraries and
executables used across different architectures and operating
systems. Saying Y here will enable your kernel to run ELF binaries
and enlarge it by about 13 KB. ELF support under Linux has now all
but replaced the traditional Linux a.out formats (QMAGIC and ZMAGIC)
because it is portable (this does *not* mean that you will be able
to run executables from different architectures or operating systems
however) and makes building run-time libraries very easy. Many new
executables are distributed solely in ELF format. You definitely
want to say Y here.
Information about ELF is contained in the ELF HOWTO available from
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>.
If you find that after upgrading from Linux kernel 1.2 and saying Y
here, you still can't run any ELF binaries (they just crash), then
you'll have to install the newest ELF runtime libraries, including
ld.so (check the file <file:Documentation/Changes> for location and
latest version).
If you want to compile this as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
will be called binfmt_elf.o. Saying M or N here is dangerous because
some crucial programs on your system might be in ELF format.
config BINFMT_MISC
tristate "Kernel support for MISC binaries"
---help---
If you say Y here, it will be possible to plug wrapper-driven binary
formats into the kernel. You will like this especially when you use
programs that need an interpreter to run like Java, Python or
Emacs-Lisp. It's also useful if you often run DOS executables under
the Linux DOS emulator DOSEMU (read the DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>). Once you have
registered such a binary class with the kernel, you can start one of
those programs simply by typing in its name at a shell prompt; Linux
will automatically feed it to the correct interpreter.
You can do other nice things, too. Read the file
<file:Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt> to learn how to use this
feature, and <file:Documentation/java.txt> for information about how
to include Java support.
You must say Y to "/proc file system support" (CONFIG_PROC_FS) to
use this part of the kernel.
You may say M here for module support and later load the module when
you have use for it; the module is called binfmt_misc.o. If you
don't know what to answer at this point, say Y.
config BINFMT_EM86
tristate "Kernel support for Linux/Intel ELF binaries"
---help---
Say Y here if you want to be able to execute Linux/Intel ELF
binaries just like native Alpha binaries on your Alpha machine. For
this to work, you need to have the emulator /usr/bin/em86 in place.
You can get the same functionality by saying N here and saying Y to
"Kernel support for MISC binaries".
You may answer M to compile the emulation support as a module and
later load the module when you want to use a Linux/Intel binary. The
module will be called binfmt_em86.o. If unsure, say Y.
source "drivers/parport/Kconfig"
endmenu
source "drivers/mtd/Kconfig"
source "drivers/pnp/Kconfig"
source "drivers/block/Kconfig"
source "drivers/md/Kconfig"
menu "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support"
config IDE
tristate "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support"
---help---
If you say Y here, your kernel will be able to manage low cost mass
storage units such as ATA/(E)IDE and ATAPI units. The most common
cases are IDE hard drives and ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
If your system is pure SCSI and doesn't use these interfaces, you
can say N here.
Integrated Disk Electronics (IDE aka ATA-1) is a connecting standard
for mass storage units such as hard disks. It was designed by
Western Digital and Compaq Computer in 1984. It was then named
ST506. Quite a number of disks use the IDE interface.
AT Attachment (ATA) is the superset of the IDE specifications.
ST506 was also called ATA-1.
Fast-IDE is ATA-2 (also named Fast ATA), Enhanced IDE (EIDE) is
ATA-3. It provides support for larger disks (up to 8.4GB by means of
the LBA standard), more disks (4 instead of 2) and for other mass
storage units such as tapes and cdrom. UDMA/33 (aka UltraDMA/33) is
ATA-4 and provides faster (and more CPU friendly) transfer modes
than previous PIO (Programmed processor Input/Output) from previous
ATA/IDE standards by means of fast DMA controllers.
ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI) is a protocol used by EIDE tape and
CD-ROM drives, similar in many respects to the SCSI protocol.
SMART IDE (Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) was
designed in order to prevent data corruption and disk crash by
detecting pre hardware failure conditions (heat, access time, and
the like...). Disks built since June 1995 may follow this standard.
The kernel itself don't manage this; however there are quite a
number of user programs such as smart that can query the status of
SMART parameters disk.
If you want to compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
will be called ide.o.
For further information, please read <file:Documentation/ide.txt>.
If unsure, say Y.
source "drivers/ide/Kconfig"
endmenu
menu "SCSI support"
config SCSI
tristate "SCSI support"
---help---
If you want to use a SCSI hard disk, SCSI tape drive, SCSI CD-ROM or
any other SCSI device under Linux, say Y and make sure that you know
the name of your SCSI host adapter (the card inside your computer
that "speaks" the SCSI protocol, also called SCSI controller),
because you will be asked for it.
You also need to say Y here if you want support for the parallel
port version of the 100 MB IOMEGA ZIP drive.
This driver is also available as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want).
The module will be called scsi_mod.o. If you want to compile it as
a module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt> and
<file:Documentation/scsi.txt>. However, do not compile this as a
module if your root file system (the one containing the directory /)
is located on a SCSI device.
source "drivers/scsi/Kconfig"
endmenu
if PCI
source "drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig"
endif
source "net/Kconfig"
menu "Network device support"
depends on NET
config NETDEVICES
bool "Network device support"
---help---
You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to
any other computer at all or if all your connections will be over a
telephone line with a modem either via UUCP (UUCP is a protocol to
forward mail and news between unix hosts over telephone lines; read
the UUCP-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>) or dialing up a shell
account or a BBS, even using term (term is a program which gives you
almost full Internet connectivity if you have a regular dial up
shell account on some Internet connected Unix computer. Read
<http://www.bart.nl/~patrickr/term-howto/Term-HOWTO.html>).
You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that
you want to use under Linux (make sure you know its name because you
will be asked for it and read the Ethernet-HOWTO (especially if you
plan to use more than one network card under Linux)) or if you want
to use SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol is the protocol used to
send Internet traffic over telephone lines or null modem cables) or
CSLIP (compressed SLIP) or PPP (Point to Point Protocol, a better
and newer replacement for SLIP) or PLIP (Parallel Line Internet
Protocol is mainly used to create a mini network by connecting the
parallel ports of two local machines) or AX.25/KISS (protocol for
sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links).
Make sure to read the NET-3-HOWTO. Eventually, you will have to read
Olaf Kirch's excellent and free book "Network Administrator's
Guide", to be found in <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#guide>. If
unsure, say Y.
source "drivers/net/Kconfig"
source "drivers/atm/Kconfig"
endmenu
source "net/ax25/Kconfig"
source "drivers/isdn/Kconfig"
menu "Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, not IDE)"
config CD_NO_IDESCSI
bool "Support non-SCSI/IDE/ATAPI CDROM drives"
---help---
If you have a CD-ROM drive that is neither SCSI nor IDE/ATAPI, say Y
here, otherwise N. Read the CD-ROM-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all
the questions about these CD-ROM drives. If you are unsure what you
have, say Y and find out whether you have one of the following
drives.
For each of these drivers, a file Documentation/cdrom/{driver_name}
exists. Especially in cases where you do not know exactly which kind
of drive you have you should read there. Most of these drivers use a
file drivers/cdrom/{driver_name}.h where you can define your
interface parameters and switch some internal goodies.
All these CD-ROM drivers are also usable as a module ( = code which
can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you
want). If you want to compile them as module, say M instead of Y and
read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>.
If you want to use any of these CD-ROM drivers, you also have to
answer Y or M to "ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system support" below (this
answer will get "defaulted" for you if you enable any of the Linux
CD-ROM drivers).
source "drivers/cdrom/Kconfig"
endmenu
source "drivers/input/Kconfig"
source "drivers/char/Kconfig"
#source drivers/misc/Config.in
source "drivers/media/Kconfig"
source "fs/Kconfig"
menu "Console drivers"
depends on VT
config VGA_CONSOLE
bool "VGA text console"
help
Saying Y here will allow you to use Linux in text mode through a
display that complies with the generic VGA standard. Virtually
everyone wants that.
The program SVGATextMode can be used to utilize SVGA video cards to
their full potential in text mode. Download it from
<ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/console/>.
Say Y.
# if [ "$CONFIG_PCI" = "y" -a "$CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE" = "y" ]; then
# bool ' Allow VGA on any bus?' CONFIG_VGA_HOSE
# if [ "$CONFIG_VGA_HOSE" = "y" ]; then
# define_bool CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE y
# fi
# fi
source "drivers/video/Kconfig"
config PCI_CONSOLE
bool
depends on FB
default y
endmenu
menu "Sound"
config SOUND
tristate "Sound card support"
---help---
If you have a sound card in your computer, i.e. if it can say more
than an occasional beep, say Y. Be sure to have all the information
about your sound card and its configuration down (I/O port,
interrupt and DMA channel), because you will be asked for it.
You want to read the Sound-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>. General information about
the modular sound system is contained in the files
<file:Documentation/sound/Introduction>. The file
<file:Documentation/sound/README.OSS> contains some slightly
outdated but still useful information as well.
If you have a PnP sound card and you want to configure it at boot
time using the ISA PnP tools (read
<http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/>), then you need to
compile the sound card support as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want)
and load that module after the PnP configuration is finished. To do
this, say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt> as well
as <file:Documentation/sound/README.modules>; the module will be
called soundcore.o.
I'm told that even without a sound card, you can make your computer
say more than an occasional beep, by programming the PC speaker.
Kernel patches and supporting utilities to do that are in the pcsp
package, available at <ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/pcsp/>.
source "sound/Kconfig"
endmenu
source "drivers/usb/Kconfig"
source "net/bluetooth/Kconfig"
menu "Kernel hacking"
config ALPHA_LEGACY_START_ADDRESS
bool "Legacy kernel start address"
---help---
The 2.4 kernel changed the kernel start address from 0x310000
to 0x810000 to make room for the Wildfire's larger SRM console.
If you're using aboot 0.7 or later, the bootloader will examine the
ELF headers to determine where to transfer control. Unfortunately,
most older bootloaders -- APB or MILO -- hardcoded the kernel start
address rather than examining the ELF headers, and the result is a
hard lockup.
Say Y if you have a broken bootloader. Say N if you do not, or if
you wish to run on Wildfire.
config DEBUG_KERNEL
bool "Kernel debugging"
help
Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
identify kernel problems.
config MATHEMU
tristate "Kernel FP software completion" if DEBUG_KERNEL
default y if !DEBUG_KERNEL
help
This option is required for IEEE compliant floating point arithmetic
on the Alpha. The only time you would ever not say Y is to say M in
order to debug the code. Say Y unless you know what you are doing.
config DEBUG_SLAB
bool "Debug memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
memory.
config MAGIC_SYSRQ
bool "Magic SysRq key"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
unless you really know what this hack does.
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
bool "Spinlock debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
deadlocks are also debuggable.
config DEBUG_RWLOCK
bool "Read-write spinlock debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
If you say Y here then read-write lock processing will count how many
times it has tried to get the lock and issue an error message after
too many attempts. If you suspect a rwlock problem or a kernel
hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
bool "Semaphore debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
endmenu
source "security/Kconfig"
source "crypto/Kconfig"
source "lib/Kconfig"