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author | Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> | 2008-07-03 13:35:06 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-04 05:44:37 -0400 |
commit | 18d22200740b83a5d968d3236c27c310b3e8fda6 (patch) | |
tree | 989fea5de12ee9c41fdcfdda098621f65a6c07db /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
parent | 7441e9cb18a1a1e5b87f516fa97b6d4abb0838e3 (diff) |
x86, AMD IOMMU: more verbose Kconfig description text
This patch replaces the short description text for AMD IOMMU in Kconfig with a
more verbose one.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: bhavna.sarathy@amd.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 8aae462f4e01..b120cffae1ee 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig | |||
@@ -554,7 +554,15 @@ config AMD_IOMMU | |||
554 | select SWIOTLB | 554 | select SWIOTLB |
555 | depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI | 555 | depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI |
556 | help | 556 | help |
557 | Select this to get support for AMD IOMMU hardware in your system. | 557 | With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in |
558 | your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides | ||
559 | remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you | ||
560 | can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the | ||
561 | system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. | ||
562 | |||
563 | You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into | ||
564 | your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI | ||
565 | table. | ||
558 | 566 | ||
559 | # need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround | 567 | # need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround |
560 | config SWIOTLB | 568 | config SWIOTLB |