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From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
To: mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	bhavna.sarathy@amd.com, robert.richter@amd.com,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] AMD IOMMU: more verbose Kconfig description text
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:35:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215106511-12915-2-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215106511-12915-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com>

This patch replaces the short description text for AMD IOMMU in Kconfig with a
more verbose one.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index dc6425e..c31047a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -568,7 +568,15 @@ config AMD_IOMMU
 	select SWIOTLB
 	depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI
 	help
-	  Select this to get support for AMD IOMMU hardware in your system.
+	  With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in
+	  your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides
+	  remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you
+	  can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the
+	  system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware.
+
+	  You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into
+	  your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI
+	  table.
 
 # need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround
 config SWIOTLB
-- 
1.5.3.7



  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-03 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-03 17:35 [PATCH 0/6] AMD IOMMU updates Joerg Roedel
2008-07-03 17:35 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2008-07-03 17:35 ` [PATCH 2/6] AMD IOMMU: remove unnecessary set_bit_string Joerg Roedel
2008-07-03 17:35 ` [PATCH 3/6] AMD IOMMU: flush domain TLB when there is more than one page to flush Joerg Roedel
2008-07-03 18:01   ` [PATCH 3/6] AMD IOMMU: flush domain TLB when there is more than onepage " Duran, Leo
2008-07-03 17:35 ` [PATCH 4/6] AMD IOMMU: honor iommu=off instead of amd_iommu=off Joerg Roedel
2008-07-03 17:35 ` [PATCH 5/6] AMD IOMMU: don't try to init IOMMU if early detect code did not detect one Joerg Roedel
2008-07-03 17:35 ` [PATCH 6/6] AMD IOMMU: remove unnecessary code from the iommu_enable function Joerg Roedel
2008-07-04  9:52 ` [PATCH 0/6] AMD IOMMU updates Ingo Molnar
2008-07-07  7:40   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-07-07  7:44     ` Ingo Molnar

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