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authorJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>2008-07-03 13:35:06 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-04 05:44:37 -0400
commit18d22200740b83a5d968d3236c27c310b3e8fda6 (patch)
tree989fea5de12ee9c41fdcfdda098621f65a6c07db /arch/x86/Kconfig
parent7441e9cb18a1a1e5b87f516fa97b6d4abb0838e3 (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>
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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
560config SWIOTLB 568config SWIOTLB