# # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file, # see Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt. # mainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration" config X86 bool default y help This is Linux's home port. Linux was originally native to the Intel 386, and runs on all the later x86 processors including the Intel 486, 586, Pentiums, and various instruction-set-compatible chips by AMD, Cyrix, and others. config MMU bool default y config SBUS bool config UID16 bool default y config GENERIC_ISA_DMA bool default y source "init/Kconfig" menu "Processor type and features" choice prompt "Subarchitecture Type" default X86_PC config X86_PC bool "PC-compatible" help Choose this option if your computer is a standard PC or compatible. config X86_VOYAGER bool "Voyager (NCR)" help Voyager is a MCA based 32 way capable SMP architecture proprietary to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are voyager based. *** WARNING *** If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine, say N here otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable. config X86_NUMAQ bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" help This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your firmware with - send email to Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com config X86_SUMMIT bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" help This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. In particular, it is needed for the x440. If you don't have one of these computers, you should say N here. config ACPI_SRAT bool default y depends on NUMA && X86_SUMMIT config X86_BIGSMP bool "Support for other sub-arch SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" help This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs and if the system is not of any sub-arch type above. If you don't have such a system, you should say N here. config X86_VISWS bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" help The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will not run on PCs and vice versa. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. endchoice choice prompt "Processor family" default M686 config M386 bool "386" ---help--- This is the processor type of your CPU. This information is used for optimizing purposes. In order to compile a kernel that can run on all x86 CPU types (albeit not optimally fast), you can specify "386" here. The kernel will not necessarily run on earlier architectures than the one you have chosen, e.g. a Pentium optimized kernel will run on a PPro, but not necessarily on a i486. Here are the settings recommended for greatest speed: - "386" for the AMD/Cyrix/Intel 386DX/DXL/SL/SLC/SX, Cyrix/TI 486DLC/DLC2, UMC 486SX-S and NexGen Nx586. Only "386" kernels will run on a 386 class machine. - "486" for the AMD/Cyrix/IBM/Intel 486DX/DX2/DX4 or SL/SLC/SLC2/SLC3/SX/SX2 and UMC U5D or U5S. - "586" for generic Pentium CPUs lacking the TSC (time stamp counter) register. - "Pentium-Classic" for the Intel Pentium. - "Pentium-MMX" for the Intel Pentium MMX. - "Pentium-Pro" for the Intel Pentium Pro. - "Pentium-II" for the Intel Pentium II or pre-Coppermine Celeron. - "Pentium-III" for the Intel Pentium III or Coppermine Celeron. - "Pentium-4" for the Intel Pentium 4 or P4-based Celeron. - "K6" for the AMD K6, K6-II and K6-III (aka K6-3D). - "Athlon" for the AMD K7 family (Athlon/Duron/Thunderbird). - "Crusoe" for the Transmeta Crusoe series. - "Winchip-C6" for original IDT Winchip. - "Winchip-2" for IDT Winchip 2. - "Winchip-2A" for IDT Winchips with 3dNow! capabilities. - "CyrixIII/VIA C3" for VIA Cyrix III or VIA C3. - "VIA C3-2 for VIA C3-2 "Nehemiah" (model 9 and above). If you don't know what to do, choose "386". config M486 bool "486" help Select this for a x486 processor, ether Intel or one of the compatible processors from AMD, Cyrix, IBM, or Intel. Includes DX, DX2, and DX4 variants; also SL/SLC/SLC2/SLC3/SX/SX2 and UMC U5D or U5S. config M586 bool "586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX" help Select this for an x586 or x686 processor such as the AMD K5, the Intel 5x86 or 6x86, or the Intel 6x86MX. This choice does not assume the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. config M586TSC bool "Pentium-Classic" help Select this for a Pentium Classic processor with the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction for benchmarking. config M586MMX bool "Pentium-MMX" help Select this for a Pentium with the MMX graphics/multimedia extended instructions. config M686 bool "Pentium-Pro" help Select this for Intel Pentium Pro chips. This enables the use of Pentium Pro extended instructions, and disables the init-time guard against the f00f bug found in earlier Pentiums. config MPENTIUMII bool "Pentium-II/Celeron(pre-Coppermine)" help Select this for Intel chips based on the Pentium-II and pre-Coppermine Celeron core. This option enables an unaligned copy optimization, compiles the kernel with optimization flags tailored for the chip, and applies any applicable Pentium Pro optimizations. config MPENTIUMIII bool "Pentium-III/Celeron(Coppermine)" help Select this for Intel chips based on the Pentium-III and Celeron-Coppermine core. This option enables use of some extended prefetch instructions in addition to the Pentium II extensions. config MPENTIUM4 bool "Pentium-4/Celeron(P4-based)" help Select this for Intel Pentium 4 chips. This includes both the Pentium 4 and P4-based Celeron chips. This option enables compile flags optimized for the chip, uses the correct cache shift, and applies any applicable Pentium III optimizations. config MK6 bool "K6/K6-II/K6-III" help Select this for an AMD K6-family processor. Enables use of some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization flags to GCC. config MK7 bool "Athlon/Duron/K7" help Select this for an AMD Athlon K7-family processor. Enables use of some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization flags to GCC. config MK8 bool "Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8" help Select this for an AMD Opteron or Athlon64 Hammer-family processor. Enables use of some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization flags to GCC. config MELAN bool "Elan" config MCRUSOE bool "Crusoe" help Select this for Transmeta Crusoe processor. Treats the processor like a 586 with TSC, and sets some GCC optimization flags (like a Pentium Pro with no alignment requirements). config MWINCHIPC6 bool "Winchip-C6" help Select this for a IDT Winchip C6 chip. Linux and GCC treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions and alignment requirements. config MWINCHIP2 bool "Winchip-2" help Select this for a IDT Winchip-2. Linux and GCC treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions and alignment requirements. config MWINCHIP3D bool "Winchip-2A/Winchip-3" help Select this for a IDT Winchip-2A or 3. Linux and GCC treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions and alignment reqirements. Development kernels also enable out of order memory stores for this CPU, which can increase performance of some operations. config MCYRIXIII bool "CyrixIII/VIA-C3" help Select this for a Cyrix III or C3 chip. Presently Linux and GCC treat this chip as a generic 586. Whilst the CPU is 686 class, it lacks the cmov extension which gcc assumes is present when generating 686 code. Note, that Nehemiah (Model 9) and above will not boot with this kernel due to them lacking the 3dnow instructions used in earlier incarnations of the CPU. config MVIAC3_2 bool "VIA C3-2 (Nehemiah)" help Select this for a VIA C3 "Nehemiah". Selecting this enables usage of SSE and tells gcc to treat the CPU as a 686. Note, this kernel will not boot on older (pre model 9) C3s. endchoice # # Define implied options from the CPU selection here # config X86_CMPXCHG bool depends on !M386 default y config X86_XADD bool depends on !M386 default y config X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT int default "4" if MELAN || M486 || M386 default "5" if MWINCHIP3D || MWINCHIP2 || MWINCHIPC6 || MCRUSOE || MCYRIXIII || MK6 || MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUMII || M686 || M586MMX || M586TSC || M586 || MVIAC3_2 default "6" if MK7 || MK8 default "7" if MPENTIUM4 config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK bool depends on M386 default y config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM bool depends on !M386 default y config X86_PPRO_FENCE bool depends on M686 || M586MMX || M586TSC || M586 || M486 || M386 default y config X86_F00F_BUG bool depends on M586MMX || M586TSC || M586 || M486 || M386 default y config X86_WP_WORKS_OK bool depends on !M386 default y config X86_INVLPG bool depends on !M386 default y config X86_BSWAP bool depends on !M386 default y config X86_POPAD_OK bool depends on !M386 default y config X86_ALIGNMENT_16 bool depends on MWINCHIP3D || MWINCHIP2 || MWINCHIPC6 || MCYRIXIII || MELAN || MK6 || M586MMX || M586TSC || M586 || M486 || MVIAC3_2 default y config X86_GOOD_APIC bool depends on MK7 || MPENTIUM4 || MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUMII || M686 || M586MMX || MK8 default y config X86_INTEL_USERCOPY bool depends on MPENTIUM4 || MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUMII || M586MMX default y config X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM bool depends on MWINCHIP3D || MWINCHIP2 || MWINCHIPC6 || MCYRIXIII || MK7 || MK6 || MPENTIUM4 || MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUMII || M686 || MK8 || MVIAC3_2 default y config X86_USE_3DNOW bool depends on MCYRIXIII || MK7 default y config X86_OOSTORE bool depends on MWINCHIP3D || MWINCHIP2 || MWINCHIPC6 default y config X86_PREFETCH bool depends on MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUM4 || MVIAC3_2 default y config X86_SSE2 bool depends on MK8 || MPENTIUM4 default y config HUGETLB_PAGE bool "Huge TLB Page Support" help This enables support for huge pages. User space applications can make use of this support with the sys_alloc_hugepages and sys_free_hugepages system calls. If your applications are huge page aware and your processor (Pentium or later for x86) supports this, then say Y here. Otherwise, say N. config SMP bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" ---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 PREEMPT bool "Preemptible Kernel" help This option reduces the latency of the kernel when reacting to real-time or interactive events by allowing a low priority process to be preempted even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call. This allows applications to run more reliably even when the system is under load. Say Y here if you are building a kernel for a desktop, embedded or real-time system. Say N if you are unsure. config X86_UP_APIC bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" if !SMP depends on !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) ---help--- A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard lockups. If you have a system with several CPUs, you do not need to say Y here: the local APIC will be used automatically. config X86_UP_IOAPIC bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" depends on !SMP && X86_UP_APIC help An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most SMP systems and a small number of uniprocessor systems have one. If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. If you have a system with several CPUs, you do not need to say Y here: the IO-APIC will be used automatically. config X86_LOCAL_APIC bool depends on !SMP && X86_UP_APIC default y config X86_IO_APIC bool depends on !SMP && X86_UP_IOAPIC default y config NR_CPUS int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-32)" depends on SMP default "32" help This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 32 and the minimum value which makes sense is 2. This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. config X86_TSC bool depends on (MWINCHIP3D || MWINCHIP2 || MCRUSOE || MCYRIXIII || MK7 || MK6 || MPENTIUM4 || MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUMII || M686 || M586MMX || M586TSC || MK8 || MVIAC3_2) && !X86_NUMAQ default y config X86_MCE bool "Machine Check Exception" ---help--- Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. config X86_MCE_NONFATAL bool "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" depends on X86_MCE help Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying hardware, or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. This option only does something on certain CPUs. (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) config X86_MCE_P4THERMAL bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." depends on X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) help Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 enters thermal throttling. config TOSHIBA tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" ---help--- This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does not work on models with a Pheonix BIOS. The System Management Mode is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. Say N otherwise. config I8K tristate "Dell laptop support" ---help--- This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to control the fans on the I8K portables. This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at your own risk. For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the I8K Linux utilities web site at: <http://www.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. Say N otherwise. config MICROCODE tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support" ---help--- If you say Y here and also to "/dev file system support" in the 'File systems' section, you will be able to update the microcode on Intel processors in the IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Xeon etc. You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. For latest news and information on obtaining all the required ingredients for this driver, check: <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 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 microcode. If you want to compile it as a module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. If you use modprobe or kmod you may also want to add the line 'alias char-major-10-184 microcode' to your /etc/modules.conf file. config X86_MSR tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" help This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor systems. config X86_CPUID tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" help This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. config EDD tristate "BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help Say Y or M here if you want to enable BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services real mode BIOS calls to determine which disk BIOS tries boot from. This information is then exported via driverfs. This option is experimental, but believed to be safe, and most disk controller BIOS vendors do not yet implement this feature. choice prompt "High Memory Support" default NOHIGHMEM config NOHIGHMEM bool "off" ---help--- Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called "high memory". If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as possible. If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then answer "4GB" here. If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! The actual amount of total physical memory will either be auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.) If unsure, say "off". config HIGHMEM4G bool "4GB" help Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 gigabytes of physical RAM. config HIGHMEM64G bool "64GB" help Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 gigabytes of physical RAM. endchoice config HIGHMEM bool depends on HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G default y config X86_PAE bool depends on HIGHMEM64G default y # Common NUMA Features config NUMA bool "Numa Memory Allocation Support" depends on SMP && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_PC || X86_NUMAQ || (X86_SUMMIT && ACPI && !ACPI_HT_ONLY)) default n if X86_PC default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT) # Need comments to help the hapless user trying to turn on NUMA support comment "NUMA (NUMA-Q) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support" depends on X86_NUMAQ && (!HIGHMEM64G || !SMP) comment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, full ACPI" depends on X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI || ACPI_HT_ONLY) config DISCONTIGMEM bool depends on NUMA default y config HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE bool depends on NUMA default y config HIGHPTE bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" depends on HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G help The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table entries in high memory. config MATH_EMULATION bool "Math emulation" ---help--- Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a coprocessor or this emulation. If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you intend to use this kernel on different machines. More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor emulation can be found in <file:arch/i386/math-emu/README>. If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger kernel, it won't hurt. config MTRR bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" ---help--- On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar control registers on other processors can be easily supported as well: The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll just add about 9 KB to your kernel. See <file:Documentation/mtrr.txt> for more information. config HAVE_DEC_LOCK bool depends on (SMP || PREEMPT) && X86_CMPXCHG default y # turning this on wastes a bunch of space. # Summit needs it only when NUMA is on config BOOT_IOREMAP bool depends on (X86_SUMMIT && NUMA) default y endmenu menu "Power management options (ACPI, APM)" depends on !X86_VOYAGER config PM bool "Power Management support" ---help--- "Power Management" means that parts of your computer are shut off or put into a power conserving "sleep" mode if they are not being used. There are two competing standards for doing this: APM and ACPI. If you want to use either one, say Y here and then also to the requisite support below. Power Management is most important for battery powered laptop computers; if you have a laptop, check out the Linux Laptop home page on the WWW at <http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/> and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that, even if you say N here, Linux on the x86 architecture will issue the hlt instruction if nothing is to be done, thereby sending the processor to sleep and saving power. config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND bool "Software Suspend (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PM ---help--- Enable the possibilty of suspendig machine. It doesn't need APM. You may suspend your machine by 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z <time>' (patch for sysvinit needed). It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. By the next booting the, pass 'resume=/path/to/your/swap/file' and kernel will detect the saved image, restore the memory from it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended. If you don't want the previous state to continue use the 'noresume' kernel option. However note that your partitions will be fsck'd and you must re-mkswap your swap partitions/files. Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but in meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were involved in suspending. Also in this case there is a risk that buffers on disk won't match with saved ones. SMP is supported ``as-is''. There's a code for it but doesn't work. There have been problems reported relating SCSI. This option is about getting stable. However there is still some absence of features. For more information take a look at Documentation/swsusp.txt. source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" config APM tristate "Advanced Power Management BIOS support" depends on PM ---help--- APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide battery status information, and user-space programs will receive notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for machines with more than one CPU. In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location and more information, read <file:Documentation/pm.txt> and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>. This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off VESA-compliant "green" monitors. This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling APM in your BIOS). Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, "weird" problems: 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is enabled. 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass the "no387" option to the kernel 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 10) install a better fan for the CPU 11) exchange RAM chips 12) exchange the motherboard. 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 apm. config APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" depends on APM help This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. config APM_DO_ENABLE bool "Enable PM at boot time" depends on APM ---help--- Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without this feature. config APM_CPU_IDLE bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" depends on APM help Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, this option does nothing.) config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK bool "Enable console blanking using APM" depends on APM help Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, especially if you are using gpm. config APM_RTC_IS_GMT bool "RTC stores time in GMT" depends on APM help Say Y here if your RTC (Real Time Clock a.k.a. hardware clock) stores the time in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Say N if your RTC stores localtime. It is in fact recommended to store GMT in your RTC, because then you don't have to worry about daylight savings time changes. The only reason not to use GMT in your RTC is if you also run a broken OS that doesn't understand GMT. config APM_ALLOW_INTS bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" depends on APM help Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. config APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF bool "Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off" depends on APM help Use real mode APM BIOS calls to switch off the computer. This is a work-around for a number of buggy BIOSes. Switch this option on if your computer crashes instead of powering off properly. source "arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" endmenu menu "Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA)" config X86_VISWS_APIC bool depends on X86_VISWS default y config X86_LOCAL_APIC bool depends on (X86_VISWS || SMP) && !X86_VOYAGER default y config PCI bool "PCI support" if !X86_VISWS depends on !X86_VOYAGER default y if X86_VISWS 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 X86_IO_APIC bool depends on SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) default y choice prompt "PCI access mode" depends on PCI && !X86_VISWS default PCI_GOANY config PCI_GOBIOS bool "BIOS" ---help--- On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you choose "Any", the kernel will try the direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". config PCI_GODIRECT bool "Direct" config PCI_GOANY bool "Any" endchoice config PCI_BIOS bool depends on !X86_VISWS && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) default y config PCI_DIRECT bool depends on PCI && ((PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY) || X86_VISWS) default y config SCx200 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" depends on !X86_VOYAGER help This provides basic support for the National Semiconductor SCx200 processor. Right now this is just a driver for the GPIO pins. If you don't know what to do here, say N. This support is also available as a module. If compiled as a module, it will be called scx200. source "drivers/pci/Kconfig" config ISA bool "ISA support" depends on !(X86_VOYAGER || X86_VISWS) 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 "EISA support" depends on ISA ---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. source "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" config MCA bool "MCA support" depends on !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) 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 MCA depends on X86_VOYAGER default y if X86_VOYAGER source "drivers/mca/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" source "drivers/hotplug/Kconfig" endmenu menu "Executable file formats" 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 BINFMT_AOUT tristate "Kernel support for a.out 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. Saying M or N here is dangerous though, because some crucial programs on your system might still be in A.OUT format. 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. 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. If you don't know what to answer at this point, say Y. endmenu source "drivers/mtd/Kconfig" source "drivers/parport/Kconfig" source "drivers/pnp/Kconfig" source "drivers/block/Kconfig" menu "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL device support" config IDE tristate "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL device 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. For further information, please read <file:Documentation/ide.txt>. If unsure, say Y. source "drivers/ide/Kconfig" endmenu menu "SCSI device support" config SCSI tristate "SCSI device 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. If you want to compile it as a module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt> and <file:Documentation/scsi/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 menu "Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, not IDE)" depends on ISA 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/md/Kconfig" source "drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig" source "drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig" source "drivers/message/i2o/Kconfig" source "net/Kconfig" source "net/ax25/Kconfig" source "net/irda/Kconfig" source "drivers/isdn/Kconfig" source "drivers/telephony/Kconfig" # # input before char - char/joystick depends on it. As does USB. # source "drivers/input/Kconfig" source "drivers/char/Kconfig" #source drivers/misc/Config.in source "drivers/media/Kconfig" source "fs/Kconfig" source "drivers/video/Kconfig" 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. 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" source "arch/i386/oprofile/Kconfig" menu "Kernel hacking" config DEBUG_KERNEL bool "Kernel debugging" help Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and identify kernel problems. config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW bool "Check for stack overflows" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 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 DEBUG_IOVIRT bool "Memory mapped I/O debugging" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Say Y here to get warned whenever an attempt is made to do I/O on obviously invalid addresses such as those generated when ioremap() calls are forgotten. Memory mapped I/O will go through an extra check to catch access to unmapped ISA addresses, an access method that can still be used by old drivers that are being ported from 2.0/2.2. 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_HIGHMEM bool "Highmem debugging" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM help This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems. Disable for production systems. config KALLSYMS bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" help Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP bool "Sleep-inside-spinlock checking" help If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very noisy if they are called with a spinlock held. config FRAME_POINTER bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" help If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger and slower, but it will give very useful debugging information. If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able to solve problems without frame pointers. config X86_EXTRA_IRQS bool depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER default y config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG bool depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER default y config X86_MPPARSE bool depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS default y endmenu source "security/Kconfig" source "crypto/Kconfig" source "lib/Kconfig" config X86_SMP bool depends on SMP && !X86_VOYAGER default y config X86_HT bool depends on SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) default y config X86_BIOS_REBOOT bool depends on !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) default y config X86_TRAMPOLINE bool depends on SMP || X86_VISWS default y