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User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11
From: Jon Mason <[email protected]>
To: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:45:49 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] x86-64: Make GART_IOMMU kconfig help text more specific (trivial)
Have the GART_IOMMU help text specify that this is the hardware IOMMU in
amd64 processors. This will be significant if/when other IOMMUs are
added to the x86-64 architecture. :-)
Also, note that the previous help text stated that IOMMU was needed for
>3GB memory instead of >4GB. This is fixed in the newer version.
Thanks,
Jon
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <[email protected]>
diff -r 149aa2a22913 arch/x86_64/Kconfig
--- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig Tue Feb 28 22:02:10 2006
+++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig Wed Mar 8 15:24:44 2006
@@ -364,13 +364,14 @@
select SWIOTLB
depends on PCI
help
- Support the IOMMU. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory
- properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC (Double Address
- Cycle). The IOMMU can be turned off at runtime with the iommu=off parameter.
- Normally the kernel will take the right choice by itself.
- This option includes a driver for the AMD Opteron/Athlon64 northbridge IOMMU
- and a software emulation used on other systems.
- If unsure, say Y.
+ Support for hardware IOMMU in AMD's Opteron/Athlon64 Processors.
+ Needed to run systems with more than 4GB of memory properly with
+ 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC (Double Address Cycle).
+ The IOMMU can be turned off at runtime with the iommu=off parameter.
+ Normally the kernel will take the right choice by itself.
+ This option includes a driver for the AMD Opteron/Athlon64 IOMMU
+ northbridge and a software emulation used on some other systems.
+ If unsure, say Y.
# need this always enabled with GART_IOMMU for the VIA workaround
config SWIOTLB
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