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authorHuang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>2008-01-30 07:32:11 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 07:32:11 -0500
commit8b2cb7a8f531d6ca72a8aff873b9bb1c6b3122ba (patch)
treef53edab6bdc4e1f39ef2cea8d13f15242617262e /arch/x86/Kconfig
parentbfd074e05bdb69652d24ebc60b126899174ca788 (diff)
x86: 32-bit EFI runtime service support: fixes in sync with 64-bit support
support according to fixes of x86_64 support. - Delete efi_rt_lock because it is used during system early boot, before SMP is initialized. - Change local_flush_tlb() to __flush_tlb_all() to flush global page mapping. - Clean up includes. - Revise Kconfig description. - Enable noefi kernel parameter on i386. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
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@@ -961,21 +961,18 @@ config MTRR
961 961
962config EFI 962config EFI
963 def_bool n 963 def_bool n
964 prompt "Boot from EFI support" 964 prompt "EFI runtime service support"
965 depends on ACPI 965 depends on ACPI
966 ---help--- 966 ---help---
967 This enables the kernel to boot on EFI platforms using 967 This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are
968 system configuration information passed to it from the firmware.
969 This also enables the kernel to use any EFI runtime services that are
970 available (such as the EFI variable services). 968 available (such as the EFI variable services).
971 969
972 This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware 970 This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware.
973 and will result in a kernel image that is ~8k larger. In addition, 971 In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available
974 you must use the latest ELILO loader available at 972 at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage
975 <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage of 973 of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the
976 kernel initialization using EFI information (neither GRUB nor LILO know 974 resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI
977 anything about EFI). However, even with this option, the resultant 975 platforms.
978 kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI platforms.
979 976
980config IRQBALANCE 977config IRQBALANCE
981 def_bool y 978 def_bool y