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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/Kconfig | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig index bf9aafad497..b84d5050e92 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ config X86_ELAN config X86_VOYAGER bool "Voyager (NCR)" + select SMP if !BROKEN help Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based. @@ -831,12 +832,13 @@ config CRASH_DUMP depends on HIGHMEM help Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. - This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels + This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into a specially reserved region and then later executed after a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled - to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using - PHYSICAL_START. + to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using + PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image + (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt config PHYSICAL_START @@ -882,17 +884,17 @@ config PHYSICAL_START Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. config RELOCATABLE - bool "Build a relocatable kernel(EXPERIMENTAL)" + bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information - so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. + so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, - but are discarded at runtime. + but are discarded at runtime. One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel - must live at a different physical address than the primary - kernel. + must live at a different physical address than the primary + kernel. config PHYSICAL_ALIGN hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" @@ -1256,7 +1258,6 @@ source "fs/Kconfig" menuconfig INSTRUMENTATION bool "Instrumentation Support" - depends on EXPERIMENTAL default y ---help--- Say Y here to get to see options related to performance measurement, |