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| author | Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> | 2009-02-20 16:59:11 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-22 20:21:31 +0100 |
| commit | 8425091ff8af2addae118fc510a523b84ce51115 (patch) | |
| tree | b84aac3cbf7eb5fbb25f4116e763778676e29104 | |
| parent | fc6fc7f1b1095b92d4834e69b385b91e412a7ce5 (diff) | |
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x86: improve the help text of X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
Change the CONFIG_X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM help text to display the
32bit/64bit extended platform list. This is as suggested by Ingo.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: shai@scalex86.org
Cc: "Benzi Galili (Benzi@ScaleMP.com)" <benzi@scalemp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 30 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 8955262caa34..35efba546e03 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ config X86_BIGSMP ---help--- This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs +if X86_32 config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" default y @@ -293,12 +294,37 @@ config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of systems out there.) - If you enable this option then you'll be able to select a number - of non-PC x86 platforms. + If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support + for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: + AMD Elan + NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) + RDC R-321x SoC + SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) + Summit/EXA (IBM x440) + Unisys ES7000 IA32 series + Voyager (NCR) If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. +endif + +if X86_64 +config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM + bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" + default y + ---help--- + If you disable this option then the kernel will only support + standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of + systems out there.) + + If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support + for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: + ScaleMP vSMP + SGI Ultraviolet + If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a + generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. +endif # This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms # Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions |