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@@ -778,23 +778,45 @@ config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
778 Say N otherwise. 778 Say N otherwise.
779 779
780config MICROCODE 780config MICROCODE
781 tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support" 781 tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support"
782 select FW_LOADER 782 select FW_LOADER
783 ---help--- 783 ---help---
784 If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 784 If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on
785 Intel processors in the IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, 785 certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the
786 Pentium III, Pentium 4, Xeon etc. You will obviously need the 786 IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III,
787 actual microcode binary data itself which is not shipped with the 787 Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and
788 Linux kernel. 788 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra.
789 You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself
790 which is not shipped with the Linux kernel.
789 791
790 For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 792 This option selects the general module only, you need to select
791 ingredients for this driver, check: 793 at least one vendor specific module as well.
792 <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>.
793 794
794 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 795 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
795 module will be called microcode. 796 module will be called microcode.
796 797
797config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 798config MICROCODE_INTEL
799 bool "Intel microcode patch loading support"
800 depends on MICROCODE
801 default MICROCODE
802 select FW_LOADER
803 --help---
804 This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel
805 processors.
806
807 For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
808 Intel ingredients for this driver, check:
809 <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>.
810
811config MICROCODE_AMD
812 bool "AMD microcode patch loading support"
813 depends on MICROCODE
814 select FW_LOADER
815 --help---
816 If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD
817 processors will be enabled.
818
819 config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE
798 def_bool y 820 def_bool y
799 depends on MICROCODE 821 depends on MICROCODE
800 822
@@ -1061,6 +1083,56 @@ config HIGHPTE
1061 low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1083 low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table
1062 entries in high memory. 1084 entries in high memory.
1063 1085
1086config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
1087 bool "Check for low memory corruption"
1088 help
1089 Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which
1090 is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the
1091 configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by
1092 setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command
1093 line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60
1094 seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and
1095 memory_corruption_check_period parameters in
1096 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this.
1097
1098 When enabled with the default parameters, this option has
1099 almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount
1100 of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption
1101 and prevents it from affecting the running system.
1102
1103 It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable
1104 BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory,
1105 you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that
1106 memory.
1107
1108config X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK
1109 bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check"
1110 depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
1111 default y
1112 help
1113 Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is
1114 on or off.
1115
1116config X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K
1117 bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen"
1118 default y
1119 help
1120 Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known
1121 to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are
1122 known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not
1123 be used by the kernel.
1124
1125 Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS
1126 to get all its memory reservations and usages right.
1127
1128 If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not
1129 work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug
1130 events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable
1131 X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical
1132 corruption patterns.
1133
1134 Say Y if unsure.
1135
1064config MATH_EMULATION 1136config MATH_EMULATION
1065 bool 1137 bool
1066 prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1138 prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32