From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Query: DMA Engine support in make oldconfig
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:50:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060831215022.4f2cb9c7.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vcff2l2q7s1mqjlb3g35dodgrcmlba57q@4ax.com>
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:18:23 +1000 Grant Coady wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> make oldconfig from 2.6.17.11 to 2.6.18-rc5: This help text doesn't say
> what the right choice should be? Unclear to me anyway, so I take the
> default, is that bad for an x86 32-bit box?
> "
> * DMA Engine support
> *
> Support for DMA engines (DMA_ENGINE) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?
>
> DMA engines offload copy operations from the CPU to dedicated
> hardware, allowing the copies to happen asynchronously.
> "
I would guess that you don't have any hardware that is
supported, so enabling it will just use a little memory
(or at least that's all it should do -- not hurt anything
else).
---
~Randy
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