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authorRavikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>2009-02-20 16:59:11 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-22 20:21:31 +0100
commit8425091ff8af2addae118fc510a523b84ce51115 (patch)
treeb84aac3cbf7eb5fbb25f4116e763778676e29104 /arch
parentfc6fc7f1b1095b92d4834e69b385b91e412a7ce5 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig30
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 8955262caa3..35efba546e0 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