-
menu "Code maturity level options"
config EXPERIMENTAL
you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
-config CLEAN_COMPILE
- bool "Select only drivers expected to compile cleanly" if EXPERIMENTAL
- default y
- help
- Select this option if you don't even want to see the option
- to configure known-broken drivers.
-
- If unsure, say Y
-
config BROKEN
bool
- depends on !CLEAN_COMPILE
- default y
config BROKEN_ON_SMP
bool
depends on BROKEN || !SMP
default y
-endmenu
+config LOCK_KERNEL
+ bool
+ depends on SMP || PREEMPT
+ default y
+
+config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
+ int
+ default 32 if !USERMODE
+ default 128 if USERMODE
+ help
+ Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
+ variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
+endmenu
menu "General setup"
+config LOCALVERSION
+ string "Local version - append to kernel release"
+ help
+ Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
+ This will show up when you type uname, for example.
+ The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
+ any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
+ object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
+ be a maximum of 64 characters.
+
+config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
+ bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
+ default y
+ help
+ This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
+ release tree by looking for git tags that
+ belong to the current top of tree revision.
+
+ A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
+ if a git based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
+ appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
+ set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
+
+ Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
+ the git or cogito tools to be installed.
+
config SWAP
bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
depends on MMU
default y
help
This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
- for socalled swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
+ for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
in your computer. If unsure say Y.
config SYSVIPC
bool "System V IPC"
- depends on MMU
---help---
Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
- at <http://http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/acct/>.
+ at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
config SYSCTL
bool "Sysctl support"
config AUDIT
bool "Auditing support"
- default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
- default n
+ depends on NET
help
Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
config AUDITSYSCALL
bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
- depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC64 || ARCH_S390 || IA64)
+ depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
- default n
help
Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
such as SELinux.
-config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
- int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
- range 12 20
- default 17 if ARCH_S390
- default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
- default 15 if SMP
- default 14
- help
- Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
- Defaults and Examples:
- 17 => 128 KB for S/390
- 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
- 15 => 32 KB for SMP
- 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
- 13 => 8 KB
- 12 => 4 KB
-
-config HOTPLUG
- bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if !ARCH_S390
- default ARCH_S390
- help
- Say Y here if you want to plug devices into your computer while
- the system is running, and be able to use them quickly. In many
- cases, the devices can likewise be unplugged at any time too.
-
- One well known example of this is PCMCIA- or PC-cards, credit-card
- size devices such as network cards, modems or hard drives which are
- plugged into slots found on all modern laptop computers. Another
- example, used on modern desktops as well as laptops, is USB.
-
- Enable HOTPLUG and KMOD, and build a modular kernel. Get agent
- software (at <http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/>) and install it.
- Then your kernel will automatically call out to a user mode "policy
- agent" (/sbin/hotplug) to load modules and set up software needed
- to use devices as you hotplug them.
-
config IKCONFIG
bool "Kernel .config support"
---help---
This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
through /proc/config.gz.
+config CPUSETS
+ bool "Cpuset support"
+ depends on SMP
+ help
+ This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
+ allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
+ Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
+ This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+config RELAY
+ bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
+ help
+ This option enables support for relay interface support in
+ certain file systems (such as debugfs).
+ It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
+ facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
+ user space.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+source "usr/Kconfig"
+
+config UID16
+ bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
+ depends on ARM || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
+ default y
+ help
+ This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
+
+config VM86
+ depends X86
+ default y
+ bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED
+ help
+ This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
+ code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like
+ XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
+ option saves about 6k.
+
+config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
+ bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
+ default y
+ depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
+ resulting in a smaller kernel.
+
+ WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
+ option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
menuconfig EMBEDDED
bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
help
Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
- symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, and you
- don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
+ symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
+ and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
Say N.
reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
+
+config HOTPLUG
+ bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
+ help
+ This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
+ capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
+ disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
+ dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
+
+config PRINTK
+ default y
+ bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
+ help
+ This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
+ eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
+ and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
+ very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
+ strongly discouraged.
+
+config BUG
+ bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
+ help
+ Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
+ the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
+ numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
+ option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
+ Just say Y.
+
+config ELF_CORE
+ default y
+ bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
+ help
+ Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
+
+config BASE_FULL
+ default y
+ bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
+ help
+ Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
+ kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
+ but may reduce performance.
+
config FUTEX
bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
default y
Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
support for epoll family of system calls.
-source "drivers/block/Kconfig.iosched"
+config SHMEM
+ bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
+ depends on MMU
+ help
+ The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
+ It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
+ to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
+ option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
+ which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
-config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
- bool "Optimize for size" if EMBEDDED
- default y if ARM || H8300
- default n
+config SLAB
+ default y
+ bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if EMBEDDED
help
- Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
- resulting in a smaller kernel.
+ Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
+ kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.
+ SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
+ more susceptible to fragmentation.
- WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
- option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
+endmenu # General setup
- If unsure, say N.
+config TINY_SHMEM
+ default !SHMEM
+ bool
-endmenu # General setup
+config BASE_SMALL
+ int
+ default 0 if BASE_FULL
+ default 1 if !BASE_FULL
+config SLOB
+ default !SLAB
+ bool
+
+config OBSOLETE_INTERMODULE
+ tristate
menu "Loadable module support"
rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
If unsure, say N.
-config OBSOLETE_MODPARM
- bool
- default y
- depends on MODULES
- help
- You need this option to use module parameters on modules which
- have not been converted to the new module parameter system yet.
- If unsure, say Y.
-
config MODVERSIONS
- bool "Module versioning support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on MODULES && EXPERIMENTAL
+ bool "Module versioning support"
+ depends on MODULES
help
Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
unsure, say N.
+config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
+ bool "Source checksum for all modules"
+ depends on MODULES
+ help
+ Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
+ field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
+ sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
+ see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
+ others sometimes change the module source without updating
+ the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
+ will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
+
+config MODULE_SIG
+ bool "Module signature verification (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on MODULES && EXPERIMENTAL
+ select CRYPTO
+ select CRYPTO_SHA1
+ select CRYPTO_SIGNATURE
+ help
+ Check modules for valid signatures upon load.
+
+config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
+ bool "Required modules to be validly signed (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on MODULE_SIG
+ help
+ Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
+ key.
+
config KMOD
bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
depends on MODULES
help
Need stop_machine() primitive.
endmenu
+
+menu "Block layer"
+source "block/Kconfig"
+endmenu
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