bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
depends on !KASAN || KASAN_VMALLOC
- ---help---
+ help
Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
bool "Locking event counts collection"
depends on DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events
in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces
the chance of application behavior change because of timing
choice
prompt "Alpha system type"
default ALPHA_GENERIC
- ---help---
+ help
This is the system type of your hardware. A "generic" kernel will
run on any supported Alpha system. However, if you configure a
kernel for your specific system, it will be faster and smaller.
config ALPHA_QEMU
bool "Run under QEMU emulation"
depends on !ALPHA_GENERIC
- ---help---
+ help
Assume the presence of special features supported by QEMU PALcode
that reduce the overhead of system emulation.
bool "Use SRM as bootloader" if ALPHA_CABRIOLET || ALPHA_AVANTI_CH || ALPHA_EB64P || ALPHA_PC164 || ALPHA_TAKARA || ALPHA_EB164 || ALPHA_ALCOR || ALPHA_MIATA || ALPHA_LX164 || ALPHA_SX164 || ALPHA_NAUTILUS || ALPHA_NONAME
depends on TTY
default y if ALPHA_JENSEN || ALPHA_MIKASA || ALPHA_SABLE || ALPHA_LYNX || ALPHA_NORITAKE || ALPHA_DP264 || ALPHA_RAWHIDE || ALPHA_EIGER || ALPHA_WILDFIRE || ALPHA_TITAN || ALPHA_SHARK || ALPHA_MARVEL
- ---help---
+ help
There are two different types of booting firmware on Alphas: SRM,
which is command line driven, and ARC, which uses menus and arrow
keys. Details about the Linux/Alpha booting process are contained in
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
depends on ALPHA_SABLE || ALPHA_LYNX || ALPHA_RAWHIDE || ALPHA_DP264 || ALPHA_WILDFIRE || ALPHA_TITAN || ALPHA_GENERIC || ALPHA_SHARK || ALPHA_MARVEL
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y.
default n if ALPHA_EV5 || ALPHA_EV56 || (ALPHA_EV4 && !ALPHA_LCA)
default n if !ALPHA_SRM && !ALPHA_GENERIC
default y if SMP
- ---help---
+ help
The Wait for Interrupt (WTINT) PALcall attempts to place the CPU
to sleep until the next interrupt. This may reduce the power
consumed, and the heat produced by the computer. However, it has
# LARGE_VMALLOC is racy, if you *really* need it then fix it first
config ALPHA_LARGE_VMALLOC
bool
- ---help---
+ help
Process creation and other aspects of virtual memory management can
be streamlined if we restrict the kernel to one PGD for all vmalloc
allocations. This equates to about 8GB.
int "Verbose Printing Mode (0=off, 1=on, 2=all)"
depends on VERBOSE_MCHECK
default 1
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows the default printing mode to be set, and then
possibly overridden by a boot command argument.
default HZ_128 if ALPHA_QEMU
default HZ_1200 if ALPHA_RAWHIDE
default HZ_1024
- ---help---
+ help
The frequency at which timer interrupts occur. A high frequency
minimizes latency, whereas a low frequency minimizes overhead of
process accounting. The later effect is especially significant
config SRM_ENV
tristate "SRM environment through procfs"
depends on PROC_FS
- ---help---
+ help
If you enable this option, a subdirectory inside /proc called
/proc/srm_environment will give you access to the all important
SRM environment variables (those which have a name) and also
bool "Legacy kernel start address"
depends on ALPHA_GENERIC
default n
- ---help---
+ help
The 2.4 kernel changed the kernel start address from 0x310000
to 0x810000 to make room for the Wildfire's larger SRM console.
Recent consoles on Titan and Marvel machines also require the
default "0" if !DISCONTIGMEM
default "1" if DISCONTIGMEM
depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
- ---help---
+ help
Accessing memory beyond 1GB (with or w/o PAE) requires 2 memory
zones.
config SECCOMP
bool
prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
- ---help---
+ help
This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to
select EFI_STUB
select EFI_GENERIC_STUB
select EFI_RUNTIME_WRAPPERS
- ---help---
+ help
This option provides support for runtime services provided
by UEFI firmware (such as non-volatile variables, realtime
clock, and platform reset). A UEFI stub is also provided to
config FPE_NWFPE
bool "NWFPE math emulation"
depends on (!AEABI || OABI_COMPAT) && !THUMB2_KERNEL
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to include the NWFPE floating point emulator in the kernel.
This is necessary to run most binaries. Linux does not currently
support floating point hardware so you need to say Y here even if
config FPE_FASTFPE
bool "FastFPE math emulation (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on (!AEABI || OABI_COMPAT) && !CPU_32v3
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to include the FAST floating point emulator in the kernel.
This is an experimental much faster emulator which now also has full
precision for the mantissa. It does not support any exceptions.
depends on MMU
select ARM_PTDUMP_CORE
select DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
depends on MMU
select ARM_PTDUMP_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving
select ISA
select ISA_DMA
select FORCE_PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you intend to run this kernel on the Compaq
Personal Server.
config SECCOMP
bool "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
- ---help---
+ help
This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to
depends on PM_SLEEP_SMP
select KEXEC_CORE
bool "kexec system call"
- ---help---
+ help
kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot
but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
bool "Virtualization"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run
other operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
select HAVE_KVM_VCPU_RUN_PID_CHANGE
select TASKSTATS
select TASK_DELAY_ACCT
- ---help---
+ help
Support hosting virtualized guest machines.
If unsure, say N.
bool "Virtual Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) support"
depends on HW_PERF_EVENTS
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Adds support for a virtual Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) in
virtual machines.
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
- ---help---
+ help
Qualcomm Hexagon is a processor architecture designed for high
performance and low power across a wide variety of applications.
config HEXAGON_PHYS_OFFSET
def_bool y
- ---help---
+ help
Platforms that don't load the kernel at zero set this.
config FRAME_POINTER
config HEXAGON_COMET
bool "Comet Board"
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Comet platform.
endchoice
config SMP
bool "Multi-Processing support"
- ---help---
+ help
Enables SMP support in the kernel. If unsure, say "Y"
config NR_CPUS
range 2 6 if SMP
default "1" if !SMP
default "6" if SMP
- ---help---
+ help
This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 6 and the
minimum value which makes sense is 2.
choice
prompt "Kernel page size"
default PAGE_SIZE_4KB
- ---help---
+ help
Changes the default page size; use with caution.
config PAGE_SIZE_4KB
bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"
depends on SMP
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on. CPUs
can be controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#.
Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug.
bool "Support removal of Bootstrap Processor"
depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if your platform SAL will support removal of BSP with HOTPLUG_CPU
support.
bool "Force assumption that CPEI can be re-targeted"
depends on PERMIT_BSP_REMOVE
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you need to force the assumption that CPEI can be re-targeted to
any cpu in the system. This hint is available via ACPI 3.0 specifications.
Tiger4 systems are capable of re-directing CPEI to any CPU other than BSP.
config ADVANCED
bool "Advanced configuration options"
depends on MMU
- ---help---
+ help
This gives you access to some advanced options for the CPU. The
defaults should be fine for most users, but these options may make
it possible for you to improve performance somewhat if you know what
config RMW_INSNS
bool "Use read-modify-write instructions"
depends on ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This allows to use certain instructions that work with indivisible
read-modify-write bus cycles. While this is faster than the
workaround of disabling interrupts, it can conflict with DMA
config 060_WRITETHROUGH
bool "Use write-through caching for 68060 supervisor accesses"
depends on ADVANCED && M68060
- ---help---
+ help
The 68060 generally uses copyback caching of recently accessed data.
Copyback caching means that memory writes will be held in an on-chip
cache and only written back to memory some time later. Saying Y
config ATARI_ETHERNAT
bool "Atari EtherNAT Ethernet support"
depends on ATARI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to include support for the EtherNAT network adapter for the
CT/60 extension port.
config ATARI_ETHERNEC
bool "Atari EtherNEC Ethernet support"
depends on ATARI_ROM_ISA
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to include support for the EtherNEC network adapter for the
ROM port. The driver works by polling instead of interrupts, so it
is quite slow.
config SERIAL_CONSOLE
bool "Support for serial port console"
depends on AMIGA_BUILTIN_SERIAL=y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a serial port as the
system console (the system console is the device which receives all
kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user
choice
prompt "Kernel executes from"
- ---help---
+ help
Choose the memory type that the kernel will be running in.
config RAMKERNEL
depends on RELOCATABLE
range 0x0 0x01000000
default "0x00100000"
- ---help---
+ help
A table of relocation data will be appended to the kernel binary
and parsed at boot to fix up the relocated kernel.
config RANDOMIZE_BASE
bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image"
depends on RELOCATABLE
- ---help---
+ help
Randomizes the physical and virtual address at which the
kernel image is loaded, as a security feature that
deters exploit attempts relying on knowledge of the location
range 0x0 0x40000000 if EVA || 64BIT
range 0x0 0x08000000
default "0x01000000"
- ---help---
+ help
When kASLR is active, this provides the maximum offset that will
be applied to the kernel image. It should be set according to the
amount of physical RAM available in the target system minus
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
bool "Virtualization"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run
other operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
select KVM_MMIO
select MMU_NOTIFIER
select SRCU
- ---help---
+ help
Support for hosting Guest kernels.
choice
config KVM_MIPS_TE
bool "Trap & Emulate"
- ---help---
+ help
Use trap and emulate to virtualize 32-bit guests in user mode. This
does not require any special hardware Virtualization support beyond
standard MIPS32/64 r2 or later, but it does require the guest kernel
config KVM_MIPS_VZ
bool "MIPS Virtualization (VZ) ASE"
- ---help---
+ help
Use the MIPS Virtualization (VZ) ASE to virtualize guests. This
supports running unmodified guest kernels (with CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=n),
but requires hardware support.
bool "KVM/MIPS: Dynamic binary translation to reduce traps"
depends on KVM_MIPS_TE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
When running in Trap & Emulate mode patch privileged
instructions to reduce the number of traps.
config KVM_MIPS_DEBUG_COP0_COUNTERS
bool "Maintain counters for COP0 accesses"
depends on KVM
- ---help---
+ help
Maintain statistics for Guest COP0 accesses.
A histogram of COP0 accesses is printed when the VM is
shutdown.
config PA7000
bool "PA7000/PA7100"
- ---help---
+ help
This is the processor type of your CPU. This information is
used for optimizing purposes. In order to compile a kernel
that can run on all 32-bit PA CPUs (albeit not optimally fast),
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y.
config SECCOMP
def_bool y
prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
- ---help---
+ help
This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
bool "Virtualization"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run
other operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
select KVM
select KVM_BOOK3S_32_HANDLER
select KVM_BOOK3S_PR_POSSIBLE
- ---help---
+ help
Support running unmodified book3s_32 guest kernels
in virtual machines on book3s_32 host processors.
select KVM
select KVM_BOOK3S_PR_POSSIBLE if !KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
select SPAPR_TCE_IOMMU if IOMMU_SUPPORT && (PPC_PSERIES || PPC_POWERNV)
- ---help---
+ help
Support running unmodified book3s_64 and book3s_32 guest kernels
in virtual machines on book3s_64 host processors.
select KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
select MMU_NOTIFIER
select CMA
- ---help---
+ help
Support running unmodified book3s_64 guest kernels in
virtual machines on POWER7 and newer processors that have
hypervisor mode available to the host.
tristate "KVM support without using hypervisor mode in host"
depends on KVM_BOOK3S_64
select KVM_BOOK3S_PR_POSSIBLE
- ---help---
+ help
Support running guest kernels in virtual machines on processors
without using hypervisor mode in the host, by running the
guest in user mode (problem state) and emulating all
config KVM_BOOK3S_HV_EXIT_TIMING
bool "Detailed timing for hypervisor real-mode code"
depends on KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Calculate time taken for each vcpu in the real-mode guest entry,
exit, and interrupt handling code, plus time spent in the guest
and in nap mode due to idle (cede) while other threads are still
config KVM_EXIT_TIMING
bool "Detailed exit timing"
depends on KVM_E500V2 || KVM_E500MC
- ---help---
+ help
Calculate elapsed time for every exit/enter cycle. A per-vcpu
report is available in debugfs kvm/vm#_vcpu#_timing.
The overhead is relatively small, however it is not recommended for
select KVM
select KVM_MMIO
select MMU_NOTIFIER
- ---help---
+ help
Support running unmodified E500 guest kernels in virtual machines on
E500v2 host processors.
select KVM_MMIO
select KVM_BOOKE_HV
select MMU_NOTIFIER
- ---help---
+ help
Support running unmodified E500MC/E5500/E6500 guest kernels in
virtual machines on E500MC/E5500/E6500 host processors.
select HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP
select HAVE_KVM_IRQFD
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for the XICS (eXternal Interrupt Controller
Specification) interrupt controller architecture used on
IBM POWER (pSeries) servers.
config KVM_GUEST
bool "KVM Guest support"
select EPAPR_PARAVIRT
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM
hypervisor. Overhead for the kernel when not running inside KVM should
be minimal.
config TAU_INT
bool "Interrupt driven TAU driver (DANGEROUS)"
depends on TAU
- ---help---
+ help
The TAU supports an interrupt driven mode which causes an interrupt
whenever the temperature goes out of range. This is the fastest way
to get notified the temp has exceeded a range. With this option off,
config TAU_AVERAGE
bool "Average high and low temp"
depends on TAU
- ---help---
+ help
The TAU hardware can compare the temperature to an upper and lower
bound. The default behavior is to show both the upper and lower
bound in /proc/cpuinfo. If the range is large, the temperature is
bool 'Large physical address support' if E500 || PPC_86xx
depends on (44x || E500 || PPC_86xx) && !PPC_83xx && !PPC_82xx
select PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables kernel support for larger than 32-bit physical
addresses. This feature may not be available on all cores.
config ALTIVEC
bool "AltiVec Support"
depends on PPC_BOOK3S_32 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || (PPC_E500MC && PPC64)
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables kernel support for the Altivec extensions to the
PowerPC processor. The kernel currently supports saving and restoring
altivec registers, and turning on the 'altivec enable' bit so user
config VSX
bool "VSX Support"
depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 && ALTIVEC && PPC_FPU
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables kernel support for the Vector Scaler extensions
to the PowerPC processor. The kernel currently supports saving and
bool "SPE Support"
depends on SPE_POSSIBLE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables kernel support for the Signal Processing
Extensions (SPE) to the PowerPC processor. The kernel currently
supports saving and restoring SPE registers, and turning on the
depends on PPC_BOOK3S || PPC_BOOK3E || FSL_BOOKE || PPC_47x
select GENERIC_IRQ_MIGRATION
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" if !FORCE_SMP
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y. Note that the kernel does not currently
config QDIO
def_tristate y
prompt "QDIO support"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides the Queued Direct I/O base support for
IBM System z.
bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
def_bool y
prompt "KVM"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run other
operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
select HAVE_KVM_NO_POLL
select SRCU
select KVM_VFIO
- ---help---
+ help
Support hosting paravirtualized guest machines using the SIE
virtualization capability on the mainframe. This should work
on any 64bit machine.
config KVM_S390_UCONTROL
bool "Userspace controlled virtual machines"
depends on KVM
- ---help---
+ help
Allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN users to create KVM virtual machines that are
controlled by userspace.
config PHYSICAL_START
hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP)
default MEMORY_START
- ---help---
+ help
This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded
and is ordinarily the same as MEMORY_START.
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
depends on SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y.
config HD64461
bool "Hitachi HD64461 companion chip support"
- ---help---
+ help
The Hitachi HD64461 provides an interface for
the SH7709 CPU, supporting a LCD controller,
CRT color controller, IrDA up to 4 Mbps, and a
config MEMORY_START
hex "Physical memory start address"
default "0x08000000"
- ---help---
+ help
Computers built with Hitachi SuperH processors always
map the ROM starting at address zero. But the processor
does not specify the range that RAM takes.
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y.
bool
depends on SPARC32
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a serial port as the
system console (the system console is the device which receives all
kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user
select USB_EHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC
select USB_UHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_MMIO
select USB_UHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here if you are running on a SPARC-LEON processor.
The LEON processor is a synthesizable VHDL model of the
SPARC-v8 standard. LEON is part of the GRLIB collection of
config UBOOT_LOAD_ADDR
hex "uImage Load Address"
default 0x40004000
- ---help---
+ help
U-Boot kernel load address, the address in physical address space
where u-boot will place the Linux kernel before booting it.
This address is normally the base address of main memory + 0x4000.
config UBOOT_FLASH_ADDR
hex "uImage.o Load Address"
default 0x00080000
- ---help---
+ help
Optional setting only affecting the uImage.o ELF-image used to
download the uImage file to the target using a ELF-loader other than
U-Boot. It may for example be used to download an uImage to FLASH with
config UBOOT_ENTRY_ADDR
hex "uImage Entry Address"
default 0xf0004000
- ---help---
+ help
Do not change this unless you know what you're doing. This is
hardcoded by the SPARC32 and LEON port.
config SECCOMP
def_bool y
prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
- ---help---
+ help
This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to
config EARLY_PRINTK
bool "Early printk"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Write kernel log output directly to stdout.
This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
config 64BIT
bool "64-bit kernel" if "$(ARCH)" = "x86"
default "$(ARCH)" != "i386"
- ---help---
+ help
Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64
Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y.
config X86_FEATURE_NAMES
bool "Processor feature human-readable names" if EMBEDDED
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option compiles in a table of x86 feature bits and corresponding
names. This is required to support /proc/cpuinfo and a few kernel
messages. You can disable this to save space, at the expense of
config X86_X2APIC
bool "Support x2apic"
depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && (IRQ_REMAP || HYPERVISOR_GUEST)
- ---help---
+ help
This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature.
This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems),
bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI
default y
depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
- ---help---
+ help
For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems
(esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it
config X86_BIGSMP
bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs"
depends on SMP
- ---help---
+ help
This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs.
config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you disable this option then the kernel will only support
standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of
systems out there.)
config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you disable this option then the kernel will only support
standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of
systems out there.)
depends on SMP
depends on X86_X2APIC
depends on PCI_MMCONFIG
- ---help---
+ help
Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to
enable more than ~168 cores.
If you don't have one of these, you should say N here.
depends on X86_64 && PCI
depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
depends on SMP
- ---help---
+ help
Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is
supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option
if you have one of these machines.
depends on EFI
depends on X86_X2APIC
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems.
If you don't have one of these, you should say N here.
config X86_GOLDFISH
bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)"
depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily
for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android
Goldfish emulator say N here.
select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
select OF
select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE
- ---help---
+ help
Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC.
This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop
boxes and media devices.
select APB_TIMER
select INTEL_SCU_PCI
select MFD_INTEL_MSIC
- ---help---
+ help
Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID (Mobile
Internet Device) platform systems which do not have the PCI legacy
interfaces. If you are building for a PC class system say N here.
select IOSF_MBI
select INTEL_IMR
select COMMON_CLK
- ---help---
+ help
Select to include support for Quark X1000 SoC.
Say Y here if you have a Quark based system such as the Arduino
compatible Intel Galileo.
select COMMON_CLK
select PINCTRL
select IOSF_MBI
- ---help---
+ help
Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as
found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables
things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol
depends on ACPI
select COMMON_CLK
select PINCTRL
- ---help---
+ help
Select to interpret AMD specific ACPI device to platform device
such as I2C, UART, GPIO found on AMD Carrizo and later chipsets.
I2C and UART depend on COMMON_CLK to set clock. GPIO driver is
config IOSF_MBI
tristate "Intel SoC IOSF Sideband support for SoC platforms"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables sideband register access support for Intel SoC
platforms. On these platforms the IOSF sideband is used in lieu of
MSR's for some register accesses, mostly but not limited to thermal
config IOSF_MBI_DEBUG
bool "Enable IOSF sideband access through debugfs"
depends on IOSF_MBI && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option to expose the IOSF sideband access registers (MCR,
MDR, MCRX) through debugfs to write and read register information from
different units on the SoC. This is most useful for obtaining device
depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
select M486
select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
- ---help---
+ help
This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known
as R-8610-(G).
If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here.
bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures"
depends on X86_32 && SMP
depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
- ---help---
+ help
This option compiles in the bigsmp and STA2X11 default
subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary
kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it one by
select SWIOTLB
select MFD_STA2X11
select GPIOLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub,
a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard
PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this
config X86_32_IRIS
tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support
to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is
needed to do so, which is what this module does at
def_bool y
prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option
is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the
caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values,
menuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST
bool "Linux guest support"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper-
visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform
setup.
config PARAVIRT
bool "Enable paravirtualization code"
- ---help---
+ help
This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly
over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor
config PARAVIRT_DEBUG
bool "paravirt-ops debugging"
depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL
- ---help---
+ help
Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if
a paravirt_op is missing when it is called.
config PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks"
depends on PARAVIRT && SMP
- ---help---
+ help
Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the
spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly
(for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning).
select PARAVIRT_CLOCK
select ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM
hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead
of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the
config PVH
bool "Support for running PVH guests"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the PVH entry point for guest virtual machines
as specified in the x86/HVM direct boot ABI.
config KVM_DEBUG_FS
bool "Enable debug information for KVM Guests in debugfs"
depends on KVM_GUEST && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables collection of various statistics for KVM guest.
Statistics are displayed in debugfs filesystem. Enabling this option
may incur significant overhead.
config PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting"
depends on PARAVIRT
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time
accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with
the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for
bool "Jailhouse non-root cell support"
depends on X86_64 && PCI
select X86_PM_TIMER
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows to run Linux as guest in a Jailhouse non-root
cell. You can leave this option disabled if you only want to start
Jailhouse and run Linux afterwards in the root cell.
config HPET_TIMER
def_bool X86_64
prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage
time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is
present.
default y
select DMI_SCAN_MACHINE_NON_EFI_FALLBACK
bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y
here unless you have verified that your setup is not
affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP
select IOMMU_HELPER
select SWIOTLB
depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB
- ---help---
+ help
Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron
GART based hardware IOMMUs.
bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes"
depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL
select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
- ---help---
+ help
Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture.
If unsure, say N.
int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP
range NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN NR_CPUS_RANGE_END
default NR_CPUS_DEFAULT
- ---help---
+ help
This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum
supported value is 8192, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The
def_bool y
prompt "Multi-core scheduler support"
depends on SMP
- ---help---
+ help
Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision
making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly
increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
select X86_INTEL_PSTATE
select CPU_FREQ
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 enabled CPUs have a
core ordering determined at manufacturing time, which allows
certain cores to reach higher turbo frequencies (when running
bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" if !PCI_MSI
default PCI_MSI
depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD
- ---help---
+ help
A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU
system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to
config X86_UP_IOAPIC
bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors"
depends on X86_UP_APIC
- ---help---
+ help
An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most
SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one.
config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs"
depends on X86_IO_APIC
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of
spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded
interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of
bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the
kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption).
The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem,
config X86_MCELOG_LEGACY
bool "Support for deprecated /dev/mcelog character device"
depends on X86_MCE
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for /dev/mcelog which is needed by the old mcelog
userspace logging daemon. Consider switching to the new generation
rasdaemon solution.
def_bool y
prompt "Intel MCE features"
depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
- ---help---
+ help
Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as
the thermal monitor.
def_bool y
prompt "AMD MCE features"
depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && AMD_NB
- ---help---
+ help
Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as
the DRAM Error Threshold.
config X86_ANCIENT_MCE
bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks"
depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip
systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitly on the command
line.
config X86_MCE_INJECT
depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && DEBUG_FS
tristate "Machine check injector support"
- ---help---
+ help
Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes.
If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel
QA it is safe to say n.
config X86_LEGACY_VM86
bool "Legacy VM86 support"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows user programs to put the CPU into V8086
mode, which is an 80286-era approximation of 16-bit real mode.
bool "Enable support for 16-bit segments" if EXPERT
default y
depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
- ---help---
+ help
This option is required by programs like Wine to run 16-bit
protected mode legacy code on x86 processors. Disabling
this option saves about 300 bytes on i386, or around 6K text
bool "Enable vsyscall emulation" if EXPERT
default y
depends on X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
This enables emulation of the legacy vsyscall page. Disabling
it is roughly equivalent to booting with vsyscall=none, except
that it will also disable the helpful warning if a program
config X86_IOPL_IOPERM
bool "IOPERM and IOPL Emulation"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the ioperm() and iopl() syscalls which are necessary
for legacy applications.
config TOSHIBA
tristate "Toshiba Laptop support"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of
the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does
not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode
tristate "Dell i8k legacy laptop support"
select HWMON
select SENSORS_DELL_SMM
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables legacy /proc/i8k userspace interface in hwmon
dell-smm-hwmon driver. Character file /proc/i8k reports bios version,
temperature and allows controlling fan speeds of Dell laptops via
config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done
in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on
some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which
default y
depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on
Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the IA32 family,
e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The
depends on MICROCODE
default MICROCODE
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel
processors.
bool "AMD microcode loading support"
depends on MICROCODE
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD
processors will be enabled.
bool "Ancient loading interface (DEPRECATED)"
default n
depends on MICROCODE
- ---help---
+ help
DO NOT USE THIS! This is the ancient /dev/cpu/microcode interface
which was used by userspace tools like iucode_tool and microcode.ctl.
It is inadequate because it runs too late to be able to properly
config X86_MSR
tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support"
- ---help---
+ help
This device gives privileged processes access to the x86
Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with
major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr.
config X86_CPUID
tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support"
- ---help---
+ help
This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to
be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device
with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to
config NOHIGHMEM
bool "off"
- ---help---
+ help
Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems.
However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4
Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of
config HIGHMEM4G
bool "4GB"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4
gigabytes of physical RAM.
bool "64GB"
depends on !M486 && !M586 && !M586TSC && !M586MMX && !MGEODE_LX && !MGEODEGX1 && !MCYRIXIII && !MELAN && !MWINCHIPC6 && !WINCHIP3D && !MK6
select X86_PAE
- ---help---
+ help
Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4
gigabytes of physical RAM.
prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT
default VMSPLIT_3G
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select the desired split between kernel and user memory.
If the address range available to the kernel is less than the
depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G
select PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
select SWIOTLB
- ---help---
+ help
PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables
larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It
has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
select DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT
select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
depends on X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
5-level paging enables access to larger address space:
upto 128 PiB of virtual address space and 4 PiB of
physical address space.
config X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES
def_bool y
depends on X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
Certain kernel features effectively disable kernel
linear 1 GB mappings (even if the CPU otherwise
supports them), so don't confuse the user by printing
config X86_CPA_STATISTICS
bool "Enable statistic for Change Page Attribute"
depends on DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Expose statistics about the Change Page Attribute mechanism, which
helps to determine the effectiveness of preserving large and huge
page mappings when mapping protections are changed.
select DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK
select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
select ARCH_HAS_FORCE_DMA_UNENCRYPTED
- ---help---
+ help
Say yes to enable support for the encryption of system memory.
This requires an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory
Encryption (SME).
bool "Activate AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) by default"
default y
depends on AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
- ---help---
+ help
Say yes to have system memory encrypted by default if running on
an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory Encryption (SME).
depends on SMP
depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && X86_BIGSMP)
default y if X86_BIGSMP
- ---help---
+ help
Enable NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support.
The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the
def_bool y
prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection"
depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if
you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to
read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge
prompt "ACPI NUMA detection"
depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI
select ACPI_NUMA
- ---help---
+ help
Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection.
config NUMA_EMU
bool "NUMA emulation"
depends on NUMA
- ---help---
+ help
Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split
into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the
number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging.
default "6" if X86_64
default "3"
depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
- ---help---
+ help
Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target
system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables.
config HIGHPTE
bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem"
depends on HIGHMEM
- ---help---
+ help
The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory.
For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious
low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table
config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
bool "Check for low memory corruption"
- ---help---
+ help
Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which
is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the
configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by
bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check"
depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is
on or off.
int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS"
default 64
range 4 640
- ---help---
+ help
Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS.
The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel
bool
depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 && (M486SX || MELAN)
- ---help---
+ help
Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point
operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have
a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added
config MTRR
def_bool y
prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later)
the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control
processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have
def_bool y
prompt "MTRR cleanup support"
depends on MTRR
- ---help---
+ help
Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can
add writeback entries.
range 0 1
default "0"
depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
- ---help---
+ help
Enable mtrr cleanup default value
config MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT
range 0 7
default "1"
depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
- ---help---
+ help
mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via
mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line.
def_bool y
prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT
depends on MTRR
- ---help---
+ help
Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control.
PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more
config ARCH_RANDOM
def_bool y
prompt "x86 architectural random number generator" if EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Enable the x86 architectural RDRAND instruction
(Intel Bull Mountain technology) to generate random numbers.
If supported, this is a high bandwidth, cryptographically
config X86_SMAP
def_bool y
prompt "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention" if EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security
feature in newer Intel processors. There is a small
performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is
config X86_UMIP
def_bool y
prompt "User Mode Instruction Prevention" if EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
User Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) is a security feature in
some x86 processors. If enabled, a general protection fault is
issued if the SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW or STR instructions are
depends on X86_64 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD)
select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
- ---help---
+ help
Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing
page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the
page tables when an application changes protection domains.
depends on ACPI
select UCS2_STRING
select EFI_RUNTIME_WRAPPERS
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are
available (such as the EFI variable services).
depends on EFI && !X86_USE_3DNOW
depends on $(cc-option,-mabi=ms) || X86_32
select RELOCATABLE
- ---help---
+ help
This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly
by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader.
config EFI_MIXED
bool "EFI mixed-mode support"
depends on EFI_STUB && X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this feature allows a 64-bit kernel to be booted
on a 32-bit firmware, provided that your CPU supports 64-bit
mode.
config SECCOMP
def_bool y
prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
- ---help---
+ help
This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to
config KEXEC
bool "kexec system call"
select KEXEC_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot
but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
depends on X86_64
depends on CRYPTO=y
depends on CRYPTO_SHA256=y
- ---help---
+ help
This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is
file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument
for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as
config KEXEC_SIG
bool "Verify kernel signature during kexec_file_load() syscall"
depends on KEXEC_FILE
- ---help---
+ help
This option makes the kexec_file_load() syscall check for a valid
signature of the kernel image. The image can still be loaded without
config KEXEC_SIG_FORCE
bool "Require a valid signature in kexec_file_load() syscall"
depends on KEXEC_SIG
- ---help---
+ help
This option makes kernel signature verification mandatory for
the kexec_file_load() syscall.
depends on KEXEC_SIG
depends on SIGNED_PE_FILE_VERIFICATION
select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
- ---help---
+ help
Enable bzImage signature verification support.
config CRASH_DUMP
bool "kernel crash dumps"
depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM)
- ---help---
+ help
Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
config KEXEC_JUMP
bool "kexec jump"
depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION
- ---help---
+ help
Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke
code in physical address mode via KEXEC
config PHYSICAL_START
hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP)
default "0x1000000"
- ---help---
+ help
This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded.
If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then
config RELOCATABLE
bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information
so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB.
The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger,
bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image (KASLR)"
depends on RELOCATABLE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
In support of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR),
this randomizes the physical address at which the kernel image
is decompressed and the virtual address where the kernel
default "0x200000"
range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32
range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address
where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an
address which meets above alignment restriction.
config DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT
bool
- ---help---
+ help
This option makes base addresses of vmalloc and vmemmap as well as
__PAGE_OFFSET movable during boot.
depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE
select DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT
default RANDOMIZE_BASE
- ---help---
+ help
Randomizes the base virtual address of kernel memory sections
(physical memory mapping, vmalloc & vmemmap). This security feature
makes exploits relying on predictable memory locations less reliable.
default "0x0"
range 0x1 0x40 if MEMORY_HOTPLUG
range 0x0 0x40
- ---help---
+ help
Define the padding in terabytes added to the existing physical
memory size during kernel memory randomization. It is useful
for memory hotplug support but reduces the entropy available for
config BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0
bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable"
depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
- ---help---
+ help
Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off.
Say Y here to enable CPU0 hotplug by default. If this switch
def_bool n
prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug"
depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as
soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User
can online CPU0 back after boot time.
def_bool n
prompt "Disable the 32-bit vDSO (needed for glibc 2.3.3)"
depends on COMPAT_32
- ---help---
+ help
Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are
presented with a 32-bit vDSO that is not mapped at the address
indicated in its segment table.
config CMDLINE_BOOL
bool "Built-in kernel command line"
- ---help---
+ help
Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at
build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is
necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the
string "Built-in kernel command string"
depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
default ""
- ---help---
+ help
Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel
image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a
command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to
config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE
bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments"
depends on CMDLINE_BOOL && CMDLINE != ""
- ---help---
+ help
Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader
command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line.
config MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
bool "Enable the LDT (local descriptor table)" if EXPERT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Linux can allow user programs to install a per-process x86
Local Descriptor Table (LDT) using the modify_ldt(2) system
call. This is required to run 16-bit or segmented code such as
menuconfig APM
tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support"
depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP
- ---help---
+ help
APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different
techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with
APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be
config APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND
bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND"
- ---help---
+ help
This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a
compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M
series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug.
config APM_DO_ENABLE
bool "Enable PM at boot time"
- ---help---
+ help
Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS
specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically
power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend
config APM_CPU_IDLE
depends on CPU_IDLE
bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle"
- ---help---
+ help
Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop.
On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as
a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls
config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK
bool "Enable console blanking using APM"
- ---help---
+ help
Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to
turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux
virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by
config APM_ALLOW_INTS
bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls"
- ---help---
+ help
Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to
the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving
BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it
prompt "PCI access mode"
depends on X86_32 && PCI
default PCI_GOANY
- ---help---
+ help
On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and
determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards
have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded
config ISA
bool "ISA support"
- ---help---
+ help
Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the
name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff
inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel
config SCx200
tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support"
- ---help---
+ help
This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's
(now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the
PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency
tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support"
depends on SCx200
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip
27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for
NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the
select OF_PROMTREE
select IRQ_DOMAIN
select OLPC_EC
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC
XO hardware.
config OLPC_XO1_PM
bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management"
depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535=y && PM_SLEEP
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop.
config OLPC_XO1_RTC
bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock"
depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a
programmable wakeup source.
depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM && GPIO_CS5535=y
depends on INPUT=y
select POWER_SUPPLY
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop:
- EC-driven system wakeups
- Power button
bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras"
depends on OLPC && ACPI
select POWER_SUPPLY
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop:
- EC-driven system wakeups
- AC adapter status updates
config ALIX
bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)"
select GPIOLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX.
At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on
ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should
config NET5501
bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)"
select GPIOLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501.
config GEOS
bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)"
select GPIOLIB
depends on DMI
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS.
config TS5500
select CHECK_SIGNATURE
select NEW_LEDS
select LEDS_CLASS
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500.
endif # X86_32
select BINFMT_ELF
select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF
select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
- ---help---
+ help
Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a
64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're
100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left.
tristate "IA32 a.out support"
depends on IA32_EMULATION
depends on BROKEN
- ---help---
+ help
Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation.
config X86_X32
bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode"
depends on X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI
for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the
full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving
prompt "Processor family"
default M686 if X86_32
default GENERIC_CPU if X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
This is the processor type of your CPU. This information is
used for optimizing purposes. In order to compile a kernel
that can run on all supported x86 CPU types (albeit not
config M486SX
bool "486SX"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an 486-class CPU without an FPU such as
AMD/Cyrix/IBM/Intel SL/SLC/SLC2/SLC3/SX/SX2 and UMC U5S.
config M486
bool "486DX"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an 486-class CPU such as AMD/Cyrix/IBM/Intel
486DX/DX2/DX4 and UMC U5D.
config M586
bool "586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an 586 or 686 series processor such as the AMD K5,
the Cyrix 5x86, 6x86 and 6x86MX. This choice does not
assume the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction.
config M586TSC
bool "Pentium-Classic"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for a Pentium Classic processor with the RDTSC (Read
Time Stamp Counter) instruction for benchmarking.
config M586MMX
bool "Pentium-MMX"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for a Pentium with the MMX graphics/multimedia
extended instructions.
config M686
bool "Pentium-Pro"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for Intel Pentium Pro chips. This enables the use of
Pentium Pro extended instructions, and disables the init-time guard
against the f00f bug found in earlier Pentiums.
config MPENTIUMII
bool "Pentium-II/Celeron(pre-Coppermine)"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for Intel chips based on the Pentium-II and
pre-Coppermine Celeron core. This option enables an unaligned
copy optimization, compiles the kernel with optimization flags
config MPENTIUMIII
bool "Pentium-III/Celeron(Coppermine)/Pentium-III Xeon"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for Intel chips based on the Pentium-III and
Celeron-Coppermine core. This option enables use of some
extended prefetch instructions in addition to the Pentium II
config MPENTIUMM
bool "Pentium M"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for Intel Pentium M (not Pentium-4 M)
notebook chips.
config MPENTIUM4
bool "Pentium-4/Celeron(P4-based)/Pentium-4 M/older Xeon"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for Intel Pentium 4 chips. This includes the
Pentium 4, Pentium D, P4-based Celeron and Xeon, and
Pentium-4 M (not Pentium M) chips. This option enables compile
config MK6
bool "K6/K6-II/K6-III"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an AMD K6-family processor. Enables use of
some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization
flags to GCC.
config MK7
bool "Athlon/Duron/K7"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an AMD Athlon K7-family processor. Enables use of
some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization
flags to GCC.
config MK8
bool "Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an AMD Opteron or Athlon64 Hammer-family processor.
Enables use of some extended instructions, and passes appropriate
optimization flags to GCC.
config MCRUSOE
bool "Crusoe"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for a Transmeta Crusoe processor. Treats the processor
like a 586 with TSC, and sets some GCC optimization flags (like a
Pentium Pro with no alignment requirements).
config MEFFICEON
bool "Efficeon"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for a Transmeta Efficeon processor.
config MWINCHIPC6
bool "Winchip-C6"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an IDT Winchip C6 chip. Linux and GCC
treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions
and alignment requirements.
config MWINCHIP3D
bool "Winchip-2/Winchip-2A/Winchip-3"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an IDT Winchip-2, 2A or 3. Linux and GCC
treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions
and alignment requirements. Also enable out of order memory
config MELAN
bool "AMD Elan"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an AMD Elan processor.
Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors!
config MGEODEGX1
bool "GeodeGX1"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for a Geode GX1 (Cyrix MediaGX) chip.
config MGEODE_LX
bool "Geode GX/LX"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for AMD Geode GX and LX processors.
config MCYRIXIII
bool "CyrixIII/VIA-C3"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for a Cyrix III or C3 chip. Presently Linux and GCC
treat this chip as a generic 586. Whilst the CPU is 686 class,
it lacks the cmov extension which gcc assumes is present when
config MVIAC3_2
bool "VIA C3-2 (Nehemiah)"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for a VIA C3 "Nehemiah". Selecting this enables usage
of SSE and tells gcc to treat the CPU as a 686.
Note, this kernel will not boot on older (pre model 9) C3s.
config MVIAC7
bool "VIA C7"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for a VIA C7. Selecting this uses the correct cache
shift and tells gcc to treat the CPU as a 686.
config MPSC
bool "Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon"
depends on X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
Optimize for Intel Pentium 4, Pentium D and older Nocona/Dempsey
Xeon CPUs with Intel 64bit which is compatible with x86-64.
Note that the latest Xeons (Xeon 51xx and 53xx) are not based on the
config MCORE2
bool "Core 2/newer Xeon"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for Intel Core 2 and newer Core 2 Xeons (Xeon 51xx and
53xx) CPUs. You can distinguish newer from older Xeons by the CPU
config MATOM
bool "Intel Atom"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for the Intel Atom platform. Intel Atom CPUs have an
in-order pipelining architecture and thus can benefit from
config GENERIC_CPU
bool "Generic-x86-64"
depends on X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
Generic x86-64 CPU.
Run equally well on all x86-64 CPUs.
config X86_GENERIC
bool "Generic x86 support"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Instead of just including optimizations for the selected
x86 variant (e.g. PII, Crusoe or Athlon), include some more
generic optimizations as well. This will make the kernel
menuconfig PROCESSOR_SELECT
bool "Supported processor vendors" if EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
This lets you choose what x86 vendor support code your kernel
will include.
config CPU_SUP_INTEL
default y
bool "Support Intel processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
- ---help---
+ help
This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Intel processors
You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on an
default y
bool "Support Cyrix processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
depends on M486SX || M486 || M586 || M586TSC || M586MMX || (EXPERT && !64BIT)
- ---help---
+ help
This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Cyrix processors
You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a
config CPU_SUP_AMD
default y
bool "Support AMD processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
- ---help---
+ help
This enables detection, tunings and quirks for AMD processors
You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on an
config CPU_SUP_CENTAUR
default y
bool "Support Centaur processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
- ---help---
+ help
This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Centaur processors
You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a
default y
bool "Support Transmeta processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
depends on !64BIT
- ---help---
+ help
This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Transmeta processors
You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a
default y
bool "Support UMC processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
depends on M486SX || M486 || (EXPERT && !64BIT)
- ---help---
+ help
This enables detection, tunings and quirks for UMC processors
You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a
config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
(e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
config EARLY_PRINTK
bool "Early printk" if EXPERT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
port.
bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
select EARLY_PRINTK_USB
- ---help---
+ help
Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
bool "Early printk via the xHCI debug port"
depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
select EARLY_PRINTK_USB
- ---help---
+ help
Write kernel log output directly into the xHCI debug port.
One use for this feature is kernel debugging, for example when your
bool "Dump the EFI pagetable"
depends on EFI
select PTDUMP_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before
enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous
issues with the mapping of the EFI runtime regions into that
config DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
bool "Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- ---help---
+ help
X86-only for now.
bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
config IOMMU_LEAK
bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
- ---help---
+ help
Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && INSTRUCTION_DECODER
depends on !COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
decoder code.
config IO_DELAY_0X80
bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
- ---help---
+ help
This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
config IO_DELAY_0XED
bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
- ---help---
+ help
Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
often used as a hardware-debug port.
config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
- ---help---
+ help
Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
config IO_DELAY_NONE
bool "no port-IO delay"
- ---help---
+ help
No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
bool "Debug boot parameters"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
config CPA_DEBUG
bool "CPA self-test code"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- ---help---
+ help
Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
config DEBUG_ENTRY
bool "Debug low-level entry code"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables sanity checks in x86's low-level entry code.
Some of these sanity checks may slow down kernel entries and
exits or otherwise impact performance.
config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
bool "NMI Selftest"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
that the NMI behaves correctly.
config DEBUG_IMR_SELFTEST
bool "Isolated Memory Region self test"
depends on INTEL_IMR
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables automated sanity testing of the IMR code.
Some simple tests are run to verify IMR bounds checking, alignment
and overlapping. This option is really only useful if you are
bool "Debug the x86 FPU code"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If this option is enabled then there will be extra sanity
checks and (boot time) debug printouts added to the kernel.
This debugging adds some small amount of runtime overhead
depends on PCI
select DEBUG_FS
select IOSF_MBI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a debug driver, which gets the power states
of all Punit North Complex devices. The power states of
each device is exposed as part of the debugfs interface.
prompt "Choose kernel unwinder"
default UNWINDER_ORC if X86_64
default UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER if X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
This determines which method will be used for unwinding kernel stack
traces for panics, oopses, bugs, warnings, perf, /proc/<pid>/stack,
livepatch, lockdep, and more.
bool "ORC unwinder"
depends on X86_64
select STACK_VALIDATION
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the ORC (Oops Rewind Capability) unwinder for
unwinding kernel stack traces. It uses a custom data format which is
a simplified version of the DWARF Call Frame Information standard.
config UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER
bool "Frame pointer unwinder"
select FRAME_POINTER
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the frame pointer unwinder for unwinding kernel
stack traces.
bool "Guess unwinder"
depends on EXPERT
depends on !STACKDEPOT
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the "guess" unwinder for unwinding kernel stack
traces. It scans the stack and reports every kernel text address it
finds. Some of the addresses it reports may be incorrect.
tristate "Intel uncore performance events"
depends on PERF_EVENTS && CPU_SUP_INTEL && PCI
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for Intel uncore performance events. These are
available on NehalemEX and more modern processors.
tristate "Intel/AMD rapl performance events"
depends on PERF_EVENTS && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD) && PCI
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for Intel and AMD rapl performance events for power
monitoring on modern processors.
tristate "Intel cstate performance events"
depends on PERF_EVENTS && CPU_SUP_INTEL && PCI
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for Intel cstate performance events for power
monitoring on modern processors.
config PERF_EVENTS_AMD_POWER
depends on PERF_EVENTS && CPU_SUP_AMD
tristate "AMD Processor Power Reporting Mechanism"
- ---help---
+ help
Provide power reporting mechanism support for AMD processors.
Currently, it leverages X86_FEATURE_ACC_POWER
(CPUID Fn8000_0007_EDX[12]) interface to calculate the
bool "Virtualization"
depends on HAVE_KVM || X86
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run other
operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
select KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT
select KVM_VFIO
select SRCU
- ---help---
+ help
Support hosting fully virtualized guest machines using hardware
virtualization extensions. You will need a fairly recent
processor equipped with virtualization extensions. You will also
config KVM_INTEL
tristate "KVM for Intel (and compatible) processors support"
depends on KVM && IA32_FEAT_CTL
- ---help---
+ help
Provides support for KVM on processors equipped with Intel's VT
extensions, a.k.a. Virtual Machine Extensions (VMX).
config KVM_AMD
tristate "KVM for AMD processors support"
depends on KVM
- ---help---
+ help
Provides support for KVM on AMD processors equipped with the AMD-V
(SVM) extensions.
bool "AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) support"
depends on KVM_AMD && X86_64
depends on CRYPTO_DEV_SP_PSP && !(KVM_AMD=y && CRYPTO_DEV_CCP_DD=m)
- ---help---
+ help
Provides support for launching Encrypted VMs on AMD processors.
config KVM_MMU_AUDIT
bool "Audit KVM MMU"
depends on KVM && TRACEPOINTS
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a R/W kVM module parameter 'mmu_audit', which allows
auditing of KVM MMU events at runtime.
config RAS_CEC
bool "Correctable Errors Collector"
depends on X86_MCE && MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This is a small cache which collects correctable memory errors per 4K
page PFN and counts their repeated occurrence. Once the counter for a
PFN overflows, we try to soft-offline that page as we take it to mean
config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
bool "Block layer data integrity support"
- ---help---
+ help
Some storage devices allow extra information to be
stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer
data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by
config BLK_DEV_ZONED
bool "Zoned block device support"
select MQ_IOSCHED_DEADLINE
- ---help---
+ help
Block layer zoned block device support. This option enables
support for ZAC/ZBC host-managed and host-aware zoned block devices.
bool "Block layer bio throttling support"
depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
select BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT
- ---help---
+ help
Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit
the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and
one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating
config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW
bool "Block throttling .low limit interface support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
- ---help---
+ help
Add .low limit interface for block throttling. The low limit is a best
effort limit to prioritize cgroups. Depending on the setting, the limit
can be used to protect cgroups in terms of bandwidth/iops and better
config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER
bool "Block device command line partition parser"
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from
the kernel boot args. This is typically of use for embedded devices
which don't otherwise have any standardized method for listing the
config BLK_WBT
bool "Enable support for block device writeback throttling"
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this option enables the block layer to throttle buffered
background writeback from the VM, making it more smooth and having
less impact on foreground operations. The throttling is done
config BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY
bool "Enable support for latency based cgroup IO protection"
depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this option enables the .latency interface for IO throttling.
The IO controller will attempt to maintain average IO latencies below
the configured latency target, throttling anybody with a higher latency
depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
select BLK_RQ_IO_DATA_LEN
select BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this option enables the .weight interface for cost
model based proportional IO control. The IO controller
distributes IO capacity between different groups based on
bool "Multiqueue writeback throttling"
default y
depends on BLK_WBT
- ---help---
+ help
Enable writeback throttling by default on multiqueue devices.
Multiqueue currently doesn't have support for IO scheduling,
enabling this option is recommended.
bool "Block layer debugging information in debugfs"
default y
depends on DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Include block layer debugging information in debugfs. This information
is mostly useful for kernel developers, but it doesn't incur any cost
at runtime.
config BLK_SED_OPAL
bool "Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled SEDs"
- ---help---
+ help
Builds Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled controllers.
Enabling this option enables users to setup/unlock/lock
Locking ranges for SED devices using the Opal protocol.
config MQ_IOSCHED_DEADLINE
tristate "MQ deadline I/O scheduler"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
MQ version of the deadline IO scheduler.
config MQ_IOSCHED_KYBER
tristate "Kyber I/O scheduler"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
The Kyber I/O scheduler is a low-overhead scheduler suitable for
multiqueue and other fast devices. Given target latencies for reads and
synchronous writes, it will self-tune queue depths to achieve that
config IOSCHED_BFQ
tristate "BFQ I/O scheduler"
- ---help---
+ help
BFQ I/O scheduler for BLK-MQ. BFQ distributes the bandwidth of
of the device among all processes according to their weights,
regardless of the device parameters and with any workload. It
bool "BFQ hierarchical scheduling support"
depends on IOSCHED_BFQ && BLK_CGROUP
select BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT
- ---help---
+ help
Enable hierarchical scheduling in BFQ, using the blkio
(cgroups-v1) or io (cgroups-v2) controller.
config BFQ_CGROUP_DEBUG
bool "BFQ IO controller debugging"
depends on BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
- ---help---
+ help
Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
config UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL
bool "Unixware slices support"
depends on PARTITION_ADVANCED && MSDOS_PARTITION
- ---help---
+ help
Like some systems, UnixWare uses its own slice table inside a
partition (VTOC - Virtual Table of Contents). Its format is
incompatible with all other OSes. Saying Y here allows you to read
config LDM_PARTITION
bool "Windows Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disk) support"
depends on PARTITION_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you would like to use hard disks under Linux which
were partitioned using Windows 2000's/XP's or Vista's Logical Disk
Manager. They are also known as "Dynamic Disks".
config SUN_PARTITION
bool "Sun partition tables support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
default y if (SPARC || SUN3 || SUN3X)
- ---help---
+ help
Like most systems, SunOS uses its own hard disk partition table
format, incompatible with all others. Saying Y here allows you to
read these partition tables and further mount SunOS partitions from
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
menuconfig ACCESSIBILITY
bool "Accessibility support"
- ---help---
+ help
Accessibility handles all special kinds of hardware devices or
software adapters which help people with disabilities (e.g.
blindness) to use computers.
bool "Console on braille device"
depends on VT
depends on SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
- ---help---
+ help
Enables console output on a braille device connected to a 8250
serial port. For now only the VisioBraille device is supported.
config ANDROID
bool "Android Drivers"
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for various drivers needed on the Android platform
if ANDROID
bool "Android Binder IPC Driver"
depends on MMU
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Binder is used in Android for both communication between processes,
and remote method invocation.
bool "Android Binderfs filesystem"
depends on ANDROID_BINDER_IPC
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Binderfs is a pseudo-filesystem for the Android Binder IPC driver
which can be mounted per-ipc namespace allowing to run multiple
instances of Android.
string "Android Binder devices"
depends on ANDROID_BINDER_IPC
default "binder,hwbinder,vndbinder"
- ---help---
+ help
Default value for the binder.devices parameter.
The binder.devices parameter is a comma-separated list of strings
config ANDROID_BINDER_IPC_SELFTEST
bool "Android Binder IPC Driver Selftest"
depends on ANDROID_BINDER_IPC
- ---help---
+ help
This feature allows binder selftest to run.
Binder selftest checks the allocation and free of binder buffers
depends on BLOCK
select SCSI
select GLOB
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to use an ATA hard disk, ATA tape drive, ATA CD-ROM or
any other ATA device under Linux, say Y and make sure that you know
the name of your ATA host adapter (the card inside your computer
bool "ATM drivers"
depends on NETDEVICES && ATM
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for Asynchronous Transfer Mode
device drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
config ATM_ENI
tristate "Efficient Networks ENI155P"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for the Efficient Networks ENI155p series and SMC ATM
Power155 155 Mbps ATM adapters. Both, the versions with 512KB and
2MB on-board RAM (Efficient calls them "C" and "S", respectively),
config ATM_ENI_TUNE_BURST
bool "Fine-tune burst settings"
depends on ATM_ENI
- ---help---
+ help
In order to obtain good throughput, the ENI NIC can transfer
multiple words of data per PCI bus access cycle. Such a multi-word
transfer is called a burst.
config ATM_AMBASSADOR_DEBUG
bool "Enable debugging messages"
depends on ATM_AMBASSADOR
- ---help---
+ help
Somewhat useful debugging messages are available. The choice of
messages is controlled by a bitmap. This may be specified as a
module argument (kernel command line argument as well?), changed
config ATM_HORIZON_DEBUG
bool "Enable debugging messages"
depends on ATM_HORIZON
- ---help---
+ help
Somewhat useful debugging messages are available. The choice of
messages is controlled by a bitmap. This may be specified as a
module argument (kernel command line argument as well?), changed
config ATM_IA
tristate "Interphase ATM PCI x575/x525/x531"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the Interphase (i)ChipSAR adapter cards
which include a variety of variants in term of the size of the
control memory (128K-1KVC, 512K-4KVC), the size of the packet
config ATM_IA_DEBUG
bool "Enable debugging messages"
depends on ATM_IA
- ---help---
+ help
Somewhat useful debugging messages are available. The choice of
messages is controlled by a bitmap. This may be specified as a
module argument (kernel command line argument as well?), changed
tristate "FORE Systems 200E-series"
depends on (PCI || SBUS)
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the FORE Systems 200E-series ATM adapter
cards. It simultaneously supports PCA-200E and SBA-200E models
on PCI and SBUS hosts. Say Y (or M to compile as a module
int "Maximum number of tx retries"
depends on ATM_FORE200E
default "16"
- ---help---
+ help
Specifies the number of times the driver attempts to transmit
a message before giving up, if the transmit queue of the ATM card
is transiently saturated.
menuconfig AUXDISPLAY
bool "Auxiliary Display support"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for auxiliary display drivers.
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
tristate "HD44780 Character LCD support"
depends on GPIOLIB || COMPILE_TEST
select CHARLCD
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for Character LCDs using a HD44780 controller.
The LCD is accessible through the /dev/lcd char device (10, 156).
This code can either be compiled as a module, or linked into the
tristate "KS0108 LCD Controller"
depends on PARPORT_PC
default n
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a LCD controlled by one or more KS0108
controllers, say Y. You will need also another more specific
driver for your LCD.
hex "Parallel port where the LCD is connected"
depends on KS0108
default 0x378
- ---help---
+ help
The address of the parallel port where the LCD is connected.
The first standard parallel port address is 0x378.
int "Delay between each control writing (microseconds)"
depends on KS0108
default "2"
- ---help---
+ help
Amount of time the ks0108 should wait between each control write
to the parallel port.
select FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
select FB_SYS_FOPS
default n
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a Crystalfontz 128x64 2-color LCD, cfag12864b Series,
say Y. You also need the ks0108 LCD Controller driver.
int "Refresh rate (hertz)"
depends on CFAG12864B
default "20"
- ---help---
+ help
Refresh rate of the LCD.
As the LCD is not memory mapped, the driver has to make the work by
tristate "Parallel port LCD/Keypad Panel support"
depends on PARPORT
select CHARLCD
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have an HD44780 or KS-0074 LCD connected to your
parallel port. This driver also features 4 and 6-key keypads. The LCD
is accessible through the /dev/lcd char device (10, 156), and the
int "Default parallel port number (0=LPT1)"
range 0 255
default "0"
- ---help---
+ help
This is the index of the parallel port the panel is connected to. One
driver instance only supports one parallel port, so if your keypad
and LCD are connected to two separate ports, you have to start two
int "Default panel profile (0-5, 0=custom)"
range 0 5
default "5"
- ---help---
+ help
To ease configuration, the driver supports different configuration
profiles for past and recent wirings. These profiles can also be
used to define an approximative configuration, completed by a few
int "Keypad type (0=none, 1=old 6 keys, 2=new 6 keys, 3=Nexcom 4 keys)"
range 0 3
default 0
- ---help---
+ help
This enables and configures a keypad connected to the parallel port.
The keys will be read from character device 10,185. Valid values are :
int "LCD type (0=none, 1=custom, 2=old //, 3=ks0074, 4=hantronix, 5=Nexcom)"
range 0 5
default 0
- ---help---
+ help
This enables and configures an LCD connected to the parallel port.
The driver includes an interpreter for escape codes starting with
'\e[L' which are specific to the LCD, and a few ANSI codes. The
int "Number of lines on the LCD (1-2)"
range 1 2
default 2
- ---help---
+ help
This is the number of visible character lines on the LCD in custom profile.
It can either be 1 or 2.
int "Number of characters per line on the LCD (1-40)"
range 1 40
default 40
- ---help---
+ help
This is the number of characters per line on the LCD in custom profile.
Common values are 16,20,24,40.
int "Internal LCD line width (1-40, 40 by default)"
range 1 40
default 40
- ---help---
+ help
Most LCDs use a standard controller which supports hardware lines of 40
characters, although sometimes only 16, 20 or 24 of them are really wired
to the terminal. This results in some non-visible but addressable characters,
int "Hardware LCD line width (1-64, 64 by default)"
range 1 64
default 64
- ---help---
+ help
Most LCDs use a single address bit to differentiate line 0 and line 1. Since
some of them need to be able to address 40 chars with the lower bits, they
often use the immediately superior power of 2, which is 64, to address the
int "LCD character set (0=normal, 1=KS0074)"
range 0 1
default 0
- ---help---
+ help
Some controllers such as the KS0074 use a somewhat strange character set
where many symbols are at unusual places. The driver knows how to map
'standard' ASCII characters to the character sets used by these controllers.
int "LCD communication mode (0=parallel 8 bits, 1=serial)"
range 0 1
default 0
- ---help---
+ help
This driver now supports any serial or parallel LCD wired to a parallel
port. But before assigning signals, the driver needs to know if it will
be driving a serial LCD or a parallel one. Serial LCDs only use 2 wires
int "Parallel port pin number & polarity connected to the LCD E signal (-17...17) "
range -17 17
default 14
- ---help---
+ help
This describes the number of the parallel port pin to which the LCD 'E'
signal has been connected. It can be :
int "Parallel port pin number & polarity connected to the LCD RS signal (-17...17) "
range -17 17
default 17
- ---help---
+ help
This describes the number of the parallel port pin to which the LCD 'RS'
signal has been connected. It can be :
int "Parallel port pin number & polarity connected to the LCD RW signal (-17...17) "
range -17 17
default 16
- ---help---
+ help
This describes the number of the parallel port pin to which the LCD 'RW'
signal has been connected. It can be :
int "Parallel port pin number & polarity connected to the LCD SCL signal (-17...17) "
range -17 17
default 1
- ---help---
+ help
This describes the number of the parallel port pin to which the serial
LCD 'SCL' signal has been connected. It can be :
int "Parallel port pin number & polarity connected to the LCD SDA signal (-17...17) "
range -17 17
default 2
- ---help---
+ help
This describes the number of the parallel port pin to which the serial
LCD 'SDA' signal has been connected. It can be :
int "Parallel port pin number & polarity connected to the LCD backlight signal (-17...17) "
range -17 17
default 0
- ---help---
+ help
This describes the number of the parallel port pin to which the LCD 'BL' signal
has been connected. It can be :
bool "Change LCD initialization message ?"
depends on CHARLCD
default "n"
- ---help---
+ help
This allows you to replace the boot message indicating the kernel version
and the driver version with a custom message. This is useful on appliances
where a simple 'Starting system' message can be enough to stop a customer
depends on PANEL_CHANGE_MESSAGE="y"
string "New initialization message"
default ""
- ---help---
+ help
This allows you to replace the boot message indicating the kernel version
and the driver version with a custom message. This is useful on appliances
where a simple 'Starting system' message can be enough to stop a customer
choice
prompt "Backlight initial state"
default CHARLCD_BL_FLASH
- ---help---
+ help
Select the initial backlight state on boot or module load.
Previously, there was no option for this: the backlight flashed
bool "Block devices"
depends on BLOCK
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device
drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
config BLK_DEV_FD
tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
Thinkpad users, is contained in
config PARIDE
tristate "Parallel port IDE device support"
depends on PARPORT_PC
- ---help---
+ help
There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through
your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices
using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE
config BLK_DEV_UMEM
tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of
battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards.
<http://www.umem.com/>
config BLK_DEV_UBD
bool "Virtual block device"
depends on UML
- ---help---
+ help
The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
- ---help---
+ help
Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
config BLK_DEV_LOOP
tristate "Loopback device support"
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_CBC
depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are
provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be
used as hard disk encryption.
config BLK_DEV_NBD
tristate "Network block device support"
depends on NET
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
tristate "STEC S1120 Block Driver"
depends on PCI
depends on 64BIT
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
STEC, Inc. S1120 PCIe SSD.
config BLK_DEV_SX8
tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
Promise SATA SX8 controllers.
config BLK_DEV_RAM
tristate "RAM block device support"
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
config VIRTIO_BLK
tristate "Virtio block driver"
depends on VIRTIO
- ---help---
+ help
This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with
QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
depends on PARIDE
select CDROM
select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST # only for the generic cdrom code
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the high-level driver for ATAPI CD-ROM devices
connected through a parallel port. If you chose to build PARIDE
support into your kernel, you may answer Y here to build in the
config PARIDE_PG
tristate "Parallel port generic ATAPI devices"
depends on PARIDE
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables a special high-level driver for generic ATAPI
devices connected through a parallel port. The driver allows user
programs, such as cdrtools, to send ATAPI commands directly to a
config PARIDE_BPCK
tristate "MicroSolutions backpack (Series 5) protocol"
depends on PARIDE
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for the Micro Solutions BACKPACK
parallel port Series 5 IDE protocol. (Most BACKPACK drives made
before 1999 were Series 5) Series 5 drives will NOT always have the
config PARIDE_BPCK6
tristate "MicroSolutions backpack (Series 6) protocol"
depends on PARIDE && !64BIT
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for the Micro Solutions BACKPACK
parallel port Series 6 IDE protocol. (Most BACKPACK drives made
after 1999 were Series 6) Series 6 drives will have the Series noted
tristate "TTY driver to output user messages via printk"
depends on EXPERT && TTY
default n
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, the support for writing user messages (i.e.
console messages) via printk is available.
config PRINTER
tristate "Parallel printer support"
depends on PARPORT
- ---help---
+ help
If you intend to attach a printer to the parallel port of your Linux
box (as opposed to using a serial printer; if the connector at the
printer has 9 or 25 holes ["female"], then it's serial), say Y.
config LP_CONSOLE
bool "Support for console on line printer"
depends on PRINTER
- ---help---
+ help
If you want kernel messages to be printed out as they occur, you
can have a console on the printer. This option adds support for
doing that; to actually get it to happen you need to pass the
config PPDEV
tristate "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers"
depends on PARPORT
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y to this adds support for /dev/parport device nodes. This
is needed for programs that want portable access to the parallel
port, for instance deviceid (which displays Plug-and-Play device
config NWBUTTON
tristate "NetWinder Button"
depends on ARCH_NETWINDER
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here and create a character device node /dev/nwbutton
with major and minor numbers 10 and 158 ("man mknod"), then every
time the orange button is pressed a number of times, the number of
config NWFLASH
tristate "NetWinder flash support"
depends on ARCH_NETWINDER
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here and create a character device /dev/flash with
major 10 and minor 160 you can manipulate the flash ROM containing
the NetWinder firmware. Be careful as accidentally overwriting the
config R3964
tristate "Siemens R3964 line discipline"
depends on TTY && BROKEN
- ---help---
+ help
This driver allows synchronous communication with devices using the
Siemens R3964 packet protocol. Unless you are dealing with special
hardware like PLCs, you are unlikely to need this.
config APPLICOM
tristate "Applicom intelligent fieldbus card support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides the kernel-side support for the intelligent
fieldbus cards made by Applicom International. More information
about these cards can be found on the WWW at the address
config SONYPI
tristate "Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Control Device support"
depends on X86_32 && PCI && INPUT
- ---help---
+ help
This driver enables access to the Sony Programmable I/O Control
Device which can be found in many (all ?) Sony Vaio laptops.
tristate "ACP Modem (Mwave) support"
depends on X86 && TTY
select SERIAL_8250
- ---help---
+ help
The ACP modem (Mwave) for Linux is a WinModem. It is composed of a
kernel driver and a user level application. Together these components
support direct attachment to public switched telephone networks (PSTNs)
tristate "/dev/nvram support"
depends on X86 || HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
default M68K || PPC
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/nvram
with major number 10 and minor number 144 using mknod ("man mknod"),
you get read and write access to the non-volatile memory.
tristate "/dev/agpgart (AGP Support)"
depends on ALPHA || IA64 || PARISC || PPC || X86
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is a bus system mainly used to
connect graphics cards to the rest of the system.
config AGP_ALI
tristate "ALI chipset support"
depends on AGP && X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
This option gives you AGP support for the GLX component of
X on the following ALi chipsets. The supported chipsets
include M1541, M1621, M1631, M1632, M1641,M1647,and M1651.
config AGP_ATI
tristate "ATI chipset support"
depends on AGP && X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
This option gives you AGP support for the GLX component of
X on the ATI RadeonIGP family of chipsets.
menuconfig HW_RANDOM
tristate "Hardware Random Number Generator Core support"
default m
- ---help---
+ help
Hardware Random Number Generator Core infrastructure.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
config HW_RANDOM_TIMERIOMEM
tristate "Timer IOMEM HW Random Number Generator support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for a generic Random
Number Generator used by reading a 'dumb' iomem address that
is to be read no faster than, for example, once a second;
tristate "Intel HW Random Number Generator support"
depends on (X86 || IA64) && PCI
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on Intel i8xx-based motherboards.
tristate "AMD HW Random Number Generator support"
depends on (X86 || PPC_MAPLE) && PCI
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on AMD 76x-based motherboards.
tristate "Atmel Random Number Generator support"
depends on ARCH_AT91 && HAVE_CLK && OF
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on Atmel AT91 devices.
depends on ARCH_BCM2835 || ARCH_BCM_NSP || ARCH_BCM_5301X || \
ARCH_BCM_63XX || BCM63XX || BMIPS_GENERIC
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on the Broadcom BCM2835 and BCM63xx SoCs.
tristate "Broadcom iProc/STB RNG200 support"
depends on ARCH_BCM_IPROC || ARCH_BCM2835 || ARCH_BRCMSTB
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the RNG200
hardware found on the Broadcom iProc and STB SoCs.
tristate "AMD Geode HW Random Number Generator support"
depends on X86_32 && PCI
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on the AMD Geode LX.
tristate "Niagara2 Random Number Generator support"
depends on SPARC64
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on Niagara2 cpus.
tristate "VIA HW Random Number Generator support"
depends on X86
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on VIA based motherboards.
tristate "Intel IXP4xx NPU HW Pseudo-Random Number Generator support"
depends on ARCH_IXP4XX
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Pseudo-Random
Number Generator hardware found on the Intel IXP45x/46x NPU.
tristate "OMAP Random Number Generator support"
depends on ARCH_OMAP16XX || ARCH_OMAP2PLUS || ARCH_MVEBU
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on OMAP16xx, OMAP2/3/4/5, AM33xx/AM43xx
multimedia processors, and Marvell Armada 7k/8k SoCs.
tristate "OMAP3 ROM Random Number Generator support"
depends on ARCH_OMAP3
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on OMAP34xx processors.
tristate "Octeon Random Number Generator support"
depends on CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on Octeon processors.
tristate "PA Semi HW Random Number Generator support"
depends on PPC_PASEMI
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on PA Semi PWRficient SoCs.
config HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO
tristate "VirtIO Random Number Generator support"
depends on VIRTIO
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the virtual Random Number
Generator hardware.
tristate "TX4939 Random Number Generator support"
depends on SOC_TX4939
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on TX4939 SoC.
tristate "Freescale i.MX RNGA Random Number Generator"
depends on SOC_IMX31
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on Freescale i.MX processors.
depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAVE_CLK
depends on SOC_IMX25 || COMPILE_TEST
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator Version C hardware found on some Freescale i.MX
processors. Version B is also supported by this driver.
tristate "ST-Ericsson Nomadik Random Number Generator support"
depends on ARCH_NOMADIK
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on ST-Ericsson SoCs (8815 and 8500).
tristate "pSeries HW Random Number Generator support"
depends on PPC64 && IBMVIO
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on POWER7+ machines and above
tristate "PowerNV Random Number Generator support"
depends on PPC_POWERNV
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for Random Number Generator hardware found
in POWER7+ and above machines for PowerNV platform.
tristate "Hisilicon Random Number Generator support"
depends on HW_RANDOM && ARCH_HISI
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on Hisilicon Hip04 and Hip05 SoC.
config HW_RANDOM_ST
tristate "ST Microelectronics HW Random Number Generator support"
depends on HW_RANDOM && ARCH_STI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on STi series of SoCs.
tristate "APM X-Gene True Random Number Generator (TRNG) support"
depends on HW_RANDOM && ARCH_XGENE
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on APM X-Gene SoC.
tristate "Microchip PIC32 Random Number Generator support"
depends on HW_RANDOM && MACH_PIC32
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on a PIC32.
depends on HW_RANDOM
depends on ARCH_MESON || COMPILE_TEST
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on Amlogic Meson SoCs.
tristate "Cavium ThunderX Random Number Generator support"
depends on HW_RANDOM && PCI && (ARM64 || (COMPILE_TEST && 64BIT))
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on Cavium SoCs.
depends on HW_RANDOM
depends on ARCH_MEDIATEK || COMPILE_TEST
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on Mediatek SoCs.
tristate "S390 True Random Number Generator support"
depends on S390
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support for the True
Random Number Generator available as CPACF extension
on modern s390 hardware platforms.
tristate "Samsung Exynos True Random Number Generator support"
depends on ARCH_EXYNOS || COMPILE_TEST
default HW_RANDOM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides support for the True Random Number
Generator available in Exynos SoCs.
imply SECURITYFS
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_HASH_INFO
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a TPM security chip in your system, which
implements the Trusted Computing Group's specification,
say Yes and it will be accessible from within Linux. For
bool "TPM HW Random Number Generator support"
depends on TCG_TPM && HW_RANDOM && !(TCG_TPM=y && HW_RANDOM=m)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This setting exposes the TPM's Random Number Generator as a hwrng
device. This allows the kernel to collect randomness from the TPM at
boot, and provides the TPM randomines in /dev/hwrng.
config TCG_TIS_CORE
tristate
- ---help---
+ help
TCG TIS TPM core driver. It implements the TPM TCG TIS logic and hooks
into the TPM kernel APIs. Physical layers will register against it.
tristate "TPM Interface Specification 1.2 Interface / TPM 2.0 FIFO Interface"
depends on X86 || OF
select TCG_TIS_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a TPM security chip that is compliant with the
TCG TIS 1.2 TPM specification (TPM1.2) or the TCG PTP FIFO
specification (TPM2.0) say Yes and it will be accessible from
tristate "TPM Interface Specification 1.3 Interface / TPM 2.0 FIFO Interface - (SPI)"
depends on SPI
select TCG_TIS_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a TPM security chip which is connected to a regular,
non-tcg SPI master (i.e. most embedded platforms) that is compliant with the
TCG TIS 1.3 TPM specification (TPM1.2) or the TCG PTP FIFO
config TCG_TIS_I2C_ATMEL
tristate "TPM Interface Specification 1.2 Interface (I2C - Atmel)"
depends on I2C
- ---help---
+ help
If you have an Atmel I2C TPM security chip say Yes and it will be
accessible from within Linux.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here; the module will
config TCG_TIS_I2C_INFINEON
tristate "TPM Interface Specification 1.2 Interface (I2C - Infineon)"
depends on I2C
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a TPM security chip that is compliant with the
TCG TIS 1.2 TPM specification and Infineon's I2C Protocol Stack
Specification 0.20 say Yes and it will be accessible from within
config TCG_TIS_I2C_NUVOTON
tristate "TPM Interface Specification 1.2 Interface (I2C - Nuvoton)"
depends on I2C
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a TPM security chip with an I2C interface from
Nuvoton Technology Corp. say Yes and it will be accessible
from within Linux.
config TCG_NSC
tristate "National Semiconductor TPM Interface"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a TPM security chip from National Semiconductor
say Yes and it will be accessible from within Linux. To
compile this driver as a module, choose M here; the module
config TCG_ATMEL
tristate "Atmel TPM Interface"
depends on PPC64 || HAS_IOPORT_MAP
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a TPM security chip from Atmel say Yes and it
will be accessible from within Linux. To compile this driver
as a module, choose M here; the module will be called tpm_atmel.
config TCG_INFINEON
tristate "Infineon Technologies TPM Interface"
depends on PNP
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a TPM security chip from Infineon Technologies
(either SLD 9630 TT 1.1 or SLB 9635 TT 1.2) say Yes and it
will be accessible from within Linux.
config TCG_IBMVTPM
tristate "IBM VTPM Interface"
depends on PPC_PSERIES
- ---help---
+ help
If you have IBM virtual TPM (VTPM) support say Yes and it
will be accessible from within Linux. To compile this driver
as a module, choose M here; the module will be called tpm_ibmvtpm.
tristate "XEN TPM Interface"
depends on TCG_TPM && XEN
select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to make TPM support available to a Xen user domain,
say Yes and it will be accessible from within Linux. See
the manpages for xl, xl.conf, and docs/misc/vtpm.txt in
config TCG_CRB
tristate "TPM 2.0 CRB Interface"
depends on ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a TPM security chip that is compliant with the
TCG CRB 2.0 TPM specification say Yes and it will be accessible
from within Linux. To compile this driver as a module, choose
config TCG_VTPM_PROXY
tristate "VTPM Proxy Interface"
depends on TCG_TPM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver proxies for an emulated TPM (vTPM) running in userspace.
A device /dev/vtpmx is provided that creates a device pair
/dev/vtpmX and a server-side file descriptor on which the vTPM
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config TCG_TIS_ST33ZP24
tristate
- ---help---
+ help
STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 core driver. It implements the core
TPM1.2 logic and hooks into the TPM kernel APIs. Physical layers will
register against it.
tristate "STMicroelectronics TPM Interface Specification 1.2 Interface (I2C)"
depends on I2C
select TCG_TIS_ST33ZP24
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the STMicroelectronics TPM security chip
ST33ZP24 with i2c interface.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here; the module will be
tristate "STMicroelectronics TPM Interface Specification 1.2 Interface (SPI)"
depends on SPI
select TCG_TIS_ST33ZP24
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the STMicroelectronics TPM security chip
ST33ZP24 with spi interface.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here; the module will be
select CLKDEV_LOOKUP
select SRCU
select RATIONAL
- ---help---
+ help
The common clock framework is a single definition of struct
clk, useful across many platforms, as well as an
implementation of the clock API in include/linux/clk.h.
config COMMON_CLK_WM831X
tristate "Clock driver for WM831x/2x PMICs"
depends on MFD_WM831X
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the clocking subsystem of the WM831x/2x series of
PMICs from Wolfson Microelectronics.
config CLK_HSDK
bool "PLL Driver for HSDK platform"
depends on OF || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the HSDK core, system, ddr, tunnel and hdmi PLLs
control.
config COMMON_CLK_MAX77686
tristate "Clock driver for Maxim 77620/77686/77802 MFD"
depends on MFD_MAX77686 || MFD_MAX77620 || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Maxim 77620/77686/77802 crystal oscillator
clock.
config COMMON_CLK_RK808
tristate "Clock driver for RK805/RK808/RK809/RK817/RK818"
depends on MFD_RK808
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports RK805, RK809 and RK817, RK808 and RK818 crystal oscillator clock.
These multi-function devices have two fixed-rate oscillators, clocked at 32KHz each.
Clkout1 is always on, Clkout2 can off by control register.
depends on (MFD_HI655X_PMIC || COMPILE_TEST)
depends on REGMAP
default MFD_HI655X_PMIC
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the hi655x PMIC clock. This
multi-function device has one fixed-rate oscillator, clocked
at 32KHz.
config COMMON_CLK_SCMI
tristate "Clock driver controlled via SCMI interface"
depends on ARM_SCMI_PROTOCOL || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides support for clocks that are controlled
by firmware that implements the SCMI interface.
config COMMON_CLK_SCPI
tristate "Clock driver controlled via SCPI interface"
depends on ARM_SCPI_PROTOCOL || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides support for clocks that are controlled
by firmware that implements the SCPI interface.
depends on I2C
select REGMAP_I2C
select RATIONAL
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Silicon Labs 5351A/B/C programmable clock
generators.
depends on I2C
select REGMAP_I2C
select RATIONAL
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports TI CDCE706 programmable 3-PLL clock synthesizer.
config COMMON_CLK_CDCE925
depends on ARCH_GEMINI || COMPILE_TEST
select MFD_SYSCON
select RESET_CONTROLLER
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the SoC clocks on the Cortina Systems Gemini
platform, also known as SL3516 or CS3516.
default ARCH_ASPEED
select MFD_SYSCON
select RESET_CONTROLLER
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the SoC clocks on the Aspeed BMC platforms.
The G4 and G5 series, including the ast2400 and ast2500, are supported
config COMMON_CLK_S2MPS11
tristate "Clock driver for S2MPS1X/S5M8767 MFD"
depends on MFD_SEC_CORE || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports S2MPS11/S2MPS14/S5M8767 crystal oscillator
clock. These multi-function devices have two (S2MPS14) or three
(S2MPS11, S5M8767) fixed-rate oscillators, clocked at 32KHz each.
config CLK_TWL6040
tristate "External McPDM functional clock from twl6040"
depends on TWL6040_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Enable the external functional clock support on OMAP4+ platforms for
McPDM. McPDM module is using the external bit clock on the McPDM bus
as functional clock.
config CLK_QORIQ
bool "Clock driver for Freescale QorIQ platforms"
depends on (PPC_E500MC || ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST) && OF
- ---help---
+ help
This adds the clock driver support for Freescale QorIQ platforms
using common clock framework.
bool "Clock driver for APM XGene SoC"
default ARCH_XGENE
depends on ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the APM X-Gene SoC reference, PLL, and device clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_LOCHNAGAR
def_bool COMMON_CLK && (ARCH_LPC18XX || ARCH_LPC32XX)
select REGMAP_MMIO if ARCH_LPC32XX
select MFD_SYSCON if ARCH_LPC18XX
- ---help---
+ help
Support for clock providers on NXP platforms.
config COMMON_CLK_PALMAS
tristate "Clock driver for TI Palmas devices"
depends on MFD_PALMAS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports TI Palmas devices 32KHz output KG and KG_AUDIO
using common clock framework.
config COMMON_CLK_PWM
tristate "Clock driver for PWMs used as clock outputs"
depends on PWM
- ---help---
+ help
Adapter driver so that any PWM output can be (mis)used as clock signal
at 50% duty cycle.
config COMMON_CLK_PXA
def_bool COMMON_CLK && ARCH_PXA
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Marvell PXA SoC.
config COMMON_CLK_PIC32
bool "Clock driver for the OXNAS SoC Family"
depends on ARCH_OXNAS || COMPILE_TEST
select MFD_SYSCON
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the OXNAS SoC Family clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_VC5
bool "Clock driver for MIPS Boston boards"
depends on MIPS || COMPILE_TEST
select MFD_SYSCON
- ---help---
+ help
Enable this to support the system & CPU clocks on the MIPS Boston
development board from Imagination Technologies. These are simple
fixed rate clocks whose rate is determined by reading a platform
config COMMON_CLK_KEYSTONE
tristate "Clock drivers for Keystone based SOCs"
depends on (ARCH_KEYSTONE || COMPILE_TEST) && OF
- ---help---
+ help
Supports clock drivers for Keystone based SOCs. These SOCs have local
a power sleep control module that gate the clock to the IPs and PLLs.
depends on (ARCH_KEYSTONE || ARCH_K3 || COMPILE_TEST) && OF
depends on TI_SCI_PROTOCOL
default ARCH_KEYSTONE
- ---help---
+ help
This adds the clock driver support over TI System Control Interface.
If you wish to use clock resources from the PMMC firmware, say Y.
Otherwise, say N.
config COMMON_CLK_MEDIATEK
bool
select RESET_CONTROLLER
- ---help---
+ help
MediaTek SoCs' clock support.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2701
depends on (ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM) || COMPILE_TEST
select COMMON_CLK_MEDIATEK
default ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2701 basic clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2701_MMSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2701 mmsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2701
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2701 mmsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2701_IMGSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2701 imgsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2701
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2701 imgsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2701_VDECSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2701 vdecsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2701
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2701 vdecsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2701_HIFSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2701 hifsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2701
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2701 hifsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2701_ETHSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2701 ethsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2701
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2701 ethsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2701_BDPSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2701 bdpsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2701
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2701 bdpsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2701_AUDSYS
bool "Clock driver for Mediatek MT2701 audsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2701
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Mediatek MT2701 audsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2701_G3DSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2701 g3dsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2701
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2701 g3dsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2712
depends on (ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM64) || COMPILE_TEST
select COMMON_CLK_MEDIATEK
default ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM64
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2712 basic clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2712_BDPSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2712 bdpsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2712
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2712 bdpsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2712_IMGSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2712 imgsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2712
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2712 imgsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2712_JPGDECSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2712 jpgdecsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2712
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2712 jpgdecsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2712_MFGCFG
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2712 mfgcfg"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2712
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2712 mfgcfg clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2712_MMSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2712 mmsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2712
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2712 mmsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2712_VDECSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2712 vdecsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2712
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2712 vdecsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT2712_VENCSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT2712 vencsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT2712
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT2712 vencsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT6765
depends on (ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM64) || COMPILE_TEST
select COMMON_CLK_MEDIATEK
default ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM64
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT6797 basic clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT6797_MMSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT6797 mmsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT6797
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT6797 mmsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT6797_IMGSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT6797 imgsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT6797
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT6797 imgsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT6797_VDECSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT6797 vdecsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT6797
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT6797 vdecsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT6797_VENCSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT6797 vencsys"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT6797
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT6797 vencsys clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT7622
depends on ARCH_MEDIATEK || COMPILE_TEST
select COMMON_CLK_MEDIATEK
default ARCH_MEDIATEK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT7622 basic clocks and clocks
required for various periperals found on MediaTek.
config COMMON_CLK_MT7622_ETHSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT7622 ETHSYS"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT7622
- ---help---
+ help
This driver add support for clocks for Ethernet and SGMII
required on MediaTek MT7622 SoC.
config COMMON_CLK_MT7622_HIFSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT7622 HIFSYS"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT7622
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT7622 HIFSYS clocks providing
to PCI-E and USB.
config COMMON_CLK_MT7622_AUDSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT7622 AUDSYS"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT7622
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT7622 AUDSYS clocks providing
to audio consumers such as I2S and TDM.
depends on (ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM) || COMPILE_TEST
select COMMON_CLK_MEDIATEK
default ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT7629 basic clocks and clocks
required for various periperals found on MediaTek.
config COMMON_CLK_MT7629_ETHSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT7629 ETHSYS"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT7629
- ---help---
+ help
This driver add support for clocks for Ethernet and SGMII
required on MediaTek MT7629 SoC.
config COMMON_CLK_MT7629_HIFSYS
bool "Clock driver for MediaTek MT7629 HIFSYS"
depends on COMMON_CLK_MT7629
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT7629 HIFSYS clocks providing
to PCI-E and USB.
depends on (ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM) || COMPILE_TEST
select COMMON_CLK_MEDIATEK
default ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT8135 clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT8173
depends on ARCH_MEDIATEK || COMPILE_TEST
select COMMON_CLK_MEDIATEK
default ARCH_MEDIATEK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports MediaTek MT8173 clocks.
config COMMON_CLK_MT8173_MMSYS
tristate "Clock driver for dm814x ADPLL"
depends on ARCH_OMAP2PLUS || COMPILE_TEST
default y if SOC_TI81XX
- ---help---
+ help
ADPLL clock driver for the dm814x SoC using common clock framework.
config ICST
bool "Clock driver for ARM Reference designs ICST"
select REGMAP_MMIO
- ---help---
+ help
Supports clocking on ARM Reference designs:
- Integrator/AP and Integrator/CP
- RealView PB1176, EB, PB11MP and PBX
config CLK_SP810
bool "Clock driver for ARM SP810 System Controller"
default y if (ARCH_VEXPRESS && ARM)
- ---help---
+ help
Supports clock muxing (REFCLK/TIMCLK to TIMERCLKEN0-3) capabilities
of the ARM SP810 System Controller cell.
depends on VEXPRESS_CONFIG
select REGMAP_MMIO
default y if ARCH_VEXPRESS
- ---help---
+ help
Simple regmap-based driver driving clock generators on Versatile
Express platforms hidden behind its configuration infrastructure,
commonly known as OSCs.
menuconfig CONNECTOR
tristate "Connector - unified userspace <-> kernelspace linker"
depends on NET
- ---help---
+ help
This is unified userspace <-> kernelspace connector working on top
of the netlink socket protocol.
bool "Report process events to userspace"
depends on CONNECTOR=y
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Provide a connector that reports process events to userspace. Send
events such as fork, exec, id change (uid, gid, suid, etc), and exit.
config ELAN_CPUFREQ
tristate "AMD Elan SC400 and SC410"
depends on MELAN
- ---help---
+ help
This adds the CPUFreq driver for AMD Elan SC400 and SC410
processors.
config SC520_CPUFREQ
tristate "AMD Elan SC520"
depends on MELAN
- ---help---
+ help
This adds the CPUFreq driver for AMD Elan SC520 processor.
For details, take a look at <file:Documentation/cpu-freq/>.
menuconfig CRYPTO_HW
bool "Hardware crypto devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for hardware crypto devices and
processors. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
bool "PowerPC 4xx generic true random number generator support"
depends on CRYPTO_DEV_PPC4XX && HW_RANDOM
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option provides the kernel-side support for the TRNG hardware
found in the security function of some PowerPC 4xx SoCs.
depends on ARCH_EXYNOS || COMPILE_TEST
depends on HAS_IOMEM
select CRYPTO_RNG
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides kernel-side support through the
cryptographic API for the pseudo random number generator hardware
found on Exynos SoCs.
config CRYPTO_DEV_CAVIUM_ZIP
tristate "Cavium ZIP driver"
depends on PCI && 64BIT && (ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST)
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you want to enable compression/decompression
acceleration on Cavium's ARM based SoCs
select CRYPTO_SHA512
select CRYPTO_AUTHENC
select CRYPTO_GF128MUL
- ---help---
+ help
The Chelsio Crypto Co-processor driver for T6 adapters.
For general information about Chelsio and our products, visit
depends on XFRM_OFFLOAD
depends on INET_ESP_OFFLOAD || INET6_ESP_OFFLOAD
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for IPSec Tx Inline.
config CRYPTO_DEV_CHELSIO_TLS
depends on CHELSIO_T4
depends on TLS_TOE
select CRYPTO_DEV_CHELSIO
- ---help---
+ help
Support Chelsio Inline TLS with Chelsio crypto accelerator.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
bool "Explicit Synchronization Framework"
default n
select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
- ---help---
+ help
The Sync File Framework adds explicit synchronization via
userspace. It enables send/receive 'struct dma_fence' objects to/from
userspace via Sync File fds for synchronization between drivers via
default n
depends on SYNC_FILE
depends on DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
A sync object driver that uses a 32bit counter to coordinate
synchronization. Useful when there is no hardware primitive backing
the synchronization.
depends on FSL_SOC
select DMA_ENGINE
select ASYNC_TX_ENABLE_CHANNEL_SWITCH
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for the Freescale Elo series DMA controllers.
The Elo is the DMA controller on some mpc82xx and mpc83xx parts, the
EloPlus is on mpc85xx and mpc86xx and Pxxx parts, and the Elo3 is on
depends on FSL_SOC && !ASYNC_TX_ENABLE_CHANNEL_SWITCH
select DMA_ENGINE
select DMA_ENGINE_RAID
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for Freescale RAID Engine. RAID Engine is
available on some QorIQ SoCs (like P5020/P5040). It has
the capability to offload memcpy, xor and pq computation
tristate "Freescale MPC512x built-in DMA engine support"
depends on PPC_MPC512x || PPC_MPC831x
select DMA_ENGINE
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for the Freescale MPC512x built-in DMA engine.
config MV_XOR
select DMA_ENGINE
select DMA_ENGINE_RAID
select ASYNC_TX_ENABLE_CHANNEL_SWITCH
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for the Marvell XOR engine.
config MV_XOR_V2
select DMA_ENGINE_RAID
select ASYNC_TX_ENABLE_CHANNEL_SWITCH
select GENERIC_MSI_IRQ_DOMAIN
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for the Marvell version 2 XOR engine.
This engine provides acceleration for copy, XOR and RAID6
depends on ARCH_MEDIATEK || COMPILE_TEST
select DMA_ENGINE
select DMA_VIRTUAL_CHANNELS
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for High-Speed DMA controller on MediaTek
SoCs.
depends on ARCH_QCOM || (COMPILE_TEST && OF && ARM)
select DMA_ENGINE
select DMA_VIRTUAL_CHANNELS
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for the QCOM BAM DMA controller. This controller
provides DMA capabilities for a variety of on-chip devices.
tristate "Decode MCEs in human-readable form (only on AMD for now)"
depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && X86_MCE_AMD
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Enable this option if you want to decode Machine Check Exceptions
occurring on your machine in human-readable form.
menuconfig EISA
bool "EISA support"
depends on HAVE_EISA
- ---help---
+ help
The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was
developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus.
bool "Vesa Local Bus priming"
depends on X86 && EISA
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Activate this option if your system contains a Vesa Local
Bus (VLB) card that identify itself as an EISA card (such as
the Adaptec AHA-284x).
bool "Generic PCI/EISA bridge"
depends on !PARISC && PCI && EISA
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Activate this option if your system contains a PCI to EISA
bridge. If your system have both PCI and EISA slots, you
certainly need this option.
bool "EISA virtual root device"
depends on EISA && (ALPHA || X86)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Activate this option if your system only have EISA bus
(no PCI slots). The Alpha Jensen is an example of such
a system.
bool "EISA device name database"
depends on EISA
default y
- ---help---
+ help
By default, the kernel contains a database of all known EISA
device names to make the information in sysfs comprehensible
to the user. This database increases size of the kernel
tristate "EFI Bootloader Control"
depends on EFI_VARS
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This module installs a reboot hook, such that if reboot() is
invoked with a string argument NNN, "NNN" is copied to the
"LoaderEntryOneShot" EFI variable, to be read by the
tristate "FSI support"
depends on OF
select CRC4
- ---help---
+ help
FSI - the FRU Support Interface - is a simple bus for low-level
access to POWER-based hardware.
config FSI_NEW_DEV_NODE
bool "Create '/dev/fsi' directory for char devices"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option causes char devices created for FSI devices to be
located under a common /dev/fsi/ directory. Set to N unless your
userspace has been updated to handle the new location.
tristate "GPIO-based FSI master"
depends on GPIOLIB
select CRC4
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables a FSI master driver using GPIO lines.
config FSI_MASTER_HUB
tristate "FSI hub master"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables a FSI hub master driver. Hub is a type of FSI
master that is connected to the upstream master via a slave. Hubs
allow chaining of FSI links to an arbitrary depth. This allows for
depends on GPIOLIB
depends on GPIO_ASPEED
select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables a FSI master using the AST2400 and AST2500 GPIO
lines driven by the internal ColdFire coprocessor. This requires
the corresponding machine specific ColdFire firmware to be available.
config FSI_SCOM
tristate "SCOM FSI client device driver"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables an FSI based SCOM device driver.
config FSI_SBEFIFO
tristate "SBEFIFO FSI client device driver"
depends on OF_ADDRESS
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables an FSI based SBEFIFO device driver. The SBEFIFO is
a pipe-like FSI device for communicating with the self boot engine
(SBE) on POWER processors.
config FSI_OCC
tristate "OCC SBEFIFO client device driver"
depends on FSI_SBEFIFO
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables an SBEFIFO based On-Chip Controller (OCC) device
driver. The OCC is a device embedded on a POWER processor that collects
and aggregates sensor data from the processor and system. The OCC can
menuconfig GNSS
tristate "GNSS receiver support"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a GNSS receiver (e.g. a GPS receiver).
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will
config GNSS_SIRF_SERIAL
tristate "SiRFstar GNSS receiver support"
depends on SERIAL_DEV_BUS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a SiRFstar-based GNSS receiver which uses a
serial interface.
tristate "u-blox GNSS receiver support"
depends on SERIAL_DEV_BUS
select GNSS_SERIAL
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a u-blox GNSS receiver which uses a serial
interface.
config GPIO_TIMBERDALE
bool "Support for timberdale GPIO IP"
depends on MFD_TIMBERDALE
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for the GPIO IP in the timberdale FPGA.
config GPIO_TPS65086
depends on OF
select DRM_KMS_HELPER
select DRM_PANEL
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the display bridges of
GE B850v3 that convert dual channel LVDS
to DP++. This is used with the i.MX6 imx-ldb
depends on OF
select DRM_KMS_HELPER
select DRM_PANEL
- ---help---
+ help
NXP PTN3460 eDP-LVDS bridge chip driver.
config DRM_PARADE_PS8622
select DRM_PANEL
select DRM_KMS_HELPER
select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
- ---help---
+ help
Parade eDP-LVDS bridge chip driver.
config DRM_PARADE_PS8640
select REGMAP_I2C
select I2C_MUX
select SND_SOC_HDMI_CODEC if SND_SOC
- ---help---
+ help
Silicon Image sii902x bridge chip driver.
config DRM_SII9234
tristate "Silicon Image SII9234 HDMI/MHL bridge"
depends on OF
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want support for the MHL interface.
It is an I2C driver, that detects connection of MHL bridge
and starts encapsulation of HDMI signal.
config DRM_THINE_THC63LVD1024
tristate "Thine THC63LVD1024 LVDS decoder bridge"
depends on OF
- ---help---
+ help
Thine THC63LVD1024 LVDS/parallel converter driver.
config DRM_TOSHIBA_TC358764
select DRM_KMS_HELPER
select REGMAP_I2C
select DRM_PANEL
- ---help---
+ help
Toshiba TC358767 eDP bridge chip driver.
config DRM_TOSHIBA_TC358768
tristate "TI TFP410 DVI/HDMI bridge"
depends on OF
select DRM_KMS_HELPER
- ---help---
+ help
Texas Instruments TFP410 DVI/HDMI Transmitter driver
config DRM_TI_SN65DSI86
depends on OMAP4_DSS_HDMI
select CEC_CORE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
When selected the HDMI transmitter will support the CEC feature.
config OMAP5_DSS_HDMI
menuconfig GREYBUS
tristate "Greybus support"
depends on SYSFS
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the Greybus driver core. Greybus is a
hardware protocol that was designed to provide Unipro with a
sane application layer. It was originally designed for the
config GREYBUS_ES2
tristate "Greybus ES3 USB host controller"
depends on USB
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a Toshiba ES3 USB device that
acts as a Greybus "host controller". This device is a bridge
from a USB device to a Unipro network.
tristate "HID bus support"
depends on INPUT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
A human interface device (HID) is a type of computer device that
interacts directly with and takes input from humans. The term "HID"
most commonly used to refer to the USB-HID specification, but other
depends on HID
select POWER_SUPPLY
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds support of reporting battery strength (for HID devices
that support this feature) through power_supply class so that userspace
tools, such as upower, can display it.
config HIDRAW
bool "/dev/hidraw raw HID device support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to support HID devices (from the USB
specification standpoint) that aren't strictly user interface
devices, like monitor controls and Uninterruptible Power Supplies.
tristate "User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem"
depends on HID
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to provide HID I/O Drivers from user-space.
This allows to write I/O drivers in user-space and feed the data from
the device into the kernel. The kernel parses the HID reports, loads the
tristate "Generic HID driver"
depends on HID
default HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for generic devices on the HID bus. This includes most
keyboards and mice, joysticks, tablets and digitizers.
tristate "A4 tech mice"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for A4 tech X5 and WOP-35 / Trust 450L mice.
config HID_ACCUTOUCH
tristate "Accutouch touch device"
depends on USB_HID
- ---help---
+ help
This selects a driver for the Accutouch 2216 touch controller.
The driver works around a problem in the reported device capabilities
config HID_ACRUX
tristate "ACRUX game controller support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to enable support for ACRUX game controllers.
config HID_ACRUX_FF
bool "ACRUX force feedback support"
depends on HID_ACRUX
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to enable force feedback support for ACRUX
game controllers.
tristate "Apple {i,Power,Mac}Books"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for some Apple devices which less or more break
HID specification.
config HID_APPLEIR
tristate "Apple infrared receiver"
depends on (USB_HID)
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Apple infrared remote control. All the Apple computers from
2005 onwards include such a port, except the unibody Macbook (2009),
and Mac Pros. This receiver is also used in the Apple TV set-top box
depends on LEDS_CLASS
depends on ASUS_WMI || ASUS_WMI=n
select POWER_SUPPLY
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Asus notebook built-in keyboard and touchpad via i2c, and
the Asus Republic of Gamers laptop keyboard special keys.
config HID_AUREAL
tristate "Aureal"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Aureal Cy se W-01RN Remote Controller and other Aureal derived remotes.
config HID_BELKIN
tristate "Belkin Flip KVM and Wireless keyboard"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Belkin Flip KVM and Wireless keyboard.
config HID_BETOP_FF
tristate "Betop Production Inc. force feedback support"
depends on USB_HID
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to enable force feedback support for devices by
BETOP Production Ltd.
Currently the following devices are known to be supported:
tristate "Cherry Cymotion keyboard"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Cherry Cymotion keyboard.
config HID_CHICONY
tristate "Chicony devices"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Chicony Tactical pad and special keys on Chicony keyboards.
config HID_CORSAIR
tristate "Corsair devices"
depends on HID && USB && LEDS_CLASS
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Corsair devices that are not fully compliant with the
HID standard.
tristate "Prodikeys PC-MIDI Keyboard support"
depends on HID && SND
select SND_RAWMIDI
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Prodikeys PC-MIDI Keyboard device support.
Say Y here to enable support for this device.
- Prodikeys PC-MIDI keyboard.
config HID_CMEDIA
tristate "CMedia CM6533 HID audio jack controls"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for CMedia CM6533 HID audio jack controls.
config HID_CP2112
tristate "Silicon Labs CP2112 HID USB-to-SMBus Bridge support"
depends on USB_HID && HIDRAW && I2C && GPIOLIB
select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Silicon Labs CP2112 HID USB to SMBus Master Bridge.
This is a HID device driver which registers as an i2c adapter
and gpiochip to expose these functions of the CP2112. The
tristate "Cypress mouse and barcode readers"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for cypress mouse and barcode readers.
config HID_DRAGONRISE
tristate "DragonRise Inc. game controller"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have DragonRise Inc. game controllers.
These might be branded as:
- Tesun USB-703
bool "DragonRise Inc. force feedback"
depends on HID_DRAGONRISE
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to enable force feedback support for DragonRise Inc.
game controllers.
tristate "EMS Production Inc. force feedback support"
depends on HID
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to enable force feedback support for devices by
EMS Production Ltd.
Currently the following devices are known to be supported:
config HID_ELAN
tristate "ELAN USB Touchpad Support"
depends on LEDS_CLASS && USB_HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to enable support for the USB ELAN touchpad
Currently the following devices are known to be supported:
- HP Pavilion X2 10-p0XX.
config HID_ELECOM
tristate "ELECOM HID devices"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for ELECOM devices:
- BM084 Bluetooth Mouse
- EX-G Trackballs (M-XT3DRBK, M-XT3URBK)
config HID_ELO
tristate "ELO USB 4000/4500 touchscreen"
depends on USB_HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the ELO USB 4000/4500 touchscreens. Note that this is for
different devices than those handled by CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_USB_ELO.
tristate "Ezkey BTC 8193 keyboard"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Ezkey BTC 8193 keyboard.
config HID_GEMBIRD
tristate "Gembird Joypad"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Gembird JPD-DualForce 2.
config HID_GFRM
tristate "Google Fiber TV Box remote control support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Google Fiber TV Box remote controls
config HID_GLORIOUS
config HID_HOLTEK
tristate "Holtek HID devices"
depends on USB_HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Holtek based devices:
- Holtek On Line Grip based game controller
- Trust GXT 18 Gaming Keyboard
bool "Holtek On Line Grip force feedback support"
depends on HID_HOLTEK
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Holtek On Line Grip based game controller
and want to have force feedback support for it.
config HID_GOOGLE_HAMMER
tristate "Google Hammer Keyboard"
depends on USB_HID && LEDS_CLASS && CROS_EC
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Google Hammer device.
config HID_GT683R
tristate "MSI GT68xR LED support"
depends on LEDS_CLASS && USB_HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to enable support for the three MSI GT68xR LEDs
This driver support following modes:
config HID_KEYTOUCH
tristate "Keytouch HID devices"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Keytouch HID devices not fully compliant with
the specification. Currently supported:
- Keytouch IEC 60945
config HID_KYE
tristate "KYE/Genius devices"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for KYE/Genius devices not fully compliant with HID standard:
- Ergo Mouse
- EasyPen i405X tablet
config HID_UCLOGIC
tristate "UC-Logic"
depends on USB_HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for UC-Logic and Huion tablets.
config HID_WALTOP
tristate "Waltop"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Waltop tablets.
config HID_VIEWSONIC
config HID_GYRATION
tristate "Gyration remote control"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Gyration remote control.
config HID_ICADE
tristate "ION iCade arcade controller"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the ION iCade arcade controller to work as a joystick.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
tristate "ITE devices"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for ITE devices not fully compliant with HID standard.
config HID_JABRA
tristate "Jabra USB HID Driver"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Jabra USB HID devices.
Prevents mapping of vendor defined HID usages to input events. Without
config HID_TWINHAN
tristate "Twinhan IR remote control"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Twinhan IR remote control.
config HID_KENSINGTON
tristate "Kensington Slimblade Trackball"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Kensington Slimblade Trackball.
config HID_LCPOWER
tristate "LC-Power"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for LC-Power RC1000MCE RF remote control.
config HID_LED
tristate "Simple RGB LED support"
depends on HID
depends on LEDS_CLASS
- ---help---
+ help
Support for simple RGB LED devices. Currently supported are:
- Riso Kagaku Webmail Notifier
- Dream Cheeky Webmail Notifier and Friends Alert
depends on HID
select NEW_LEDS
select LEDS_CLASS
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IBM/Lenovo devices that are not fully compliant with HID standard.
Say Y if you want support for horizontal scrolling of the IBM/Lenovo
depends on HID
depends on LEDS_CLASS
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Logitech devices that are not fully compliant with HID standard.
config HID_LOGITECH_DJ
depends on HIDRAW
depends on HID_LOGITECH
select HID_LOGITECH_HIDPP
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you want support for Logitech receivers and devices.
Logitech receivers are capable of pairing multiple Logitech compliant
devices to the same receiver. Without this driver it will be handled by
tristate "Logitech HID++ devices support"
depends on HID_LOGITECH
select POWER_SUPPLY
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Logitech devices relyingon the HID++ Logitech specification
Say Y if you want support for Logitech devices relying on the HID++
config HID_MAGICMOUSE
tristate "Apple Magic Mouse/Trackpad multi-touch support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Apple Magic Mouse/Trackpad multi-touch.
Say Y here if you want support for the multi-touch features of the
config HID_MALTRON
tristate "Maltron L90 keyboard"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Adds support for the volume up, volume down, mute, and play/pause buttons
of the Maltron L90 keyboard.
tristate "Mayflash game controller adapter force feedback"
depends on HID
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have HJZ Mayflash PS3 game controller adapters
and want to enable force feedback support.
tristate "Redragon keyboards"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Redragon keyboards that need fix-ups to work properly.
config HID_MICROSOFT
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Microsoft devices that are not fully compliant with HID standard.
config HID_MONTEREY
tristate "Monterey Genius KB29E keyboard"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Monterey Genius KB29E.
config HID_MULTITOUCH
tristate "HID Multitouch panels"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Generic support for HID multitouch panels.
Say Y here if you have one of the following devices:
config HID_NTI
tristate "NTI keyboard adapters"
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the "extra" Sun keyboard keys on keyboards attached
through Network Technologies USB-SUN keyboard adapters.
config HID_NTRIG
tristate "N-Trig touch screen"
depends on USB_HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for N-Trig touch screen.
config HID_ORTEK
tristate "Ortek PKB-1700/WKB-2000/Skycable wireless keyboard and mouse trackpad"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
There are certain devices which have LogicalMaximum wrong in the keyboard
usage page of their report descriptor. The most prevailing ones so far
are manufactured by Ortek, thus the name of the driver. Currently
config HID_PANTHERLORD
tristate "Pantherlord/GreenAsia game controller"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a PantherLord/GreenAsia based game controller
or adapter.
bool "Pantherlord force feedback support"
depends on HID_PANTHERLORD
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a PantherLord/GreenAsia based game controller
or adapter and want to enable force feedback support for it.
config HID_PENMOUNT
tristate "Penmount touch device"
depends on USB_HID
- ---help---
+ help
This selects a driver for the PenMount 6000 touch controller.
The driver works around a problem in the report descript allowing
config HID_PETALYNX
tristate "Petalynx Maxter remote control"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Petalynx Maxter remote control.
config HID_PICOLCD
tristate "PicoLCD (graphic version)"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
This provides support for Minibox PicoLCD devices, currently
only the graphical ones are supported.
select FB_SYS_COPYAREA
select FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
select FB_SYS_FOPS
- ---help---
+ help
Provide access to PicoLCD's 256x64 monochrome display via a
framebuffer device.
default !EXPERT
depends on HID_PICOLCD
depends on HID_PICOLCD=BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE || BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=y
- ---help---
+ help
Provide access to PicoLCD's backlight control via backlight
class.
default !EXPERT
depends on HID_PICOLCD
depends on HID_PICOLCD=LCD_CLASS_DEVICE || LCD_CLASS_DEVICE=y
- ---help---
+ help
Provide access to PicoLCD's LCD contrast via lcd class.
config HID_PICOLCD_LEDS
default !EXPERT
depends on HID_PICOLCD
depends on HID_PICOLCD=LEDS_CLASS || LEDS_CLASS=y
- ---help---
+ help
Provide access to PicoLCD's GPO pins via leds class.
config HID_PICOLCD_CIR
default !EXPERT
depends on HID_PICOLCD
depends on HID_PICOLCD=RC_CORE || RC_CORE=y
- ---help---
+ help
Provide access to PicoLCD's CIR interface via remote control (LIRC).
config HID_PLANTRONICS
tristate "Plantronics USB HID Driver"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Provides HID support for Plantronics USB audio devices.
Correctly maps vendor unique volume up/down HID usages to
KEY_VOLUMEUP and KEY_VOLUMEDOWN events and prevents core mapping
config HID_PRIMAX
tristate "Primax non-fully HID-compliant devices"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Primax devices that are not fully compliant with the
HID standard.
config HID_RETRODE
tristate "Retrode 2 USB adapter for vintage video games"
depends on USB_HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for
* Retrode 2 cartridge and controller adapter
config HID_ROCCAT
tristate "Roccat device support"
depends on USB_HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Roccat devices.
Say Y here if you have a Roccat mouse or keyboard and want
support for its special functionalities.
config HID_SAITEK
tristate "Saitek (Mad Catz) non-fully HID-compliant devices"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Saitek devices that are not fully compliant with the
HID standard.
config HID_SAMSUNG
tristate "Samsung InfraRed remote control or keyboards"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Samsung InfraRed remote control or keyboards.
config HID_SONY
depends on NEW_LEDS
depends on LEDS_CLASS
select POWER_SUPPLY
- ---help---
+ help
Support for
* Sony PS3 6-axis controllers
bool "Sony PS2/3/4 accessories force feedback support"
depends on HID_SONY
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Sony PS2/3/4 accessory and want to enable
force feedback support for it.
config HID_SPEEDLINK
tristate "Speedlink VAD Cezanne mouse support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Speedlink Vicious and Divine Cezanne mouse.
config HID_STEAM
tristate "Steam Controller support"
depends on HID
select POWER_SUPPLY
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Steam Controller if you want to use it
without running the Steam Client. It supports both the wired and
the wireless adaptor.
config HID_STEELSERIES
tristate "Steelseries SRW-S1 steering wheel support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Steelseries SRW-S1 steering wheel
config HID_SUNPLUS
tristate "Sunplus wireless desktop"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Sunplus wireless desktop.
config HID_RMI
select RMI4_F11
select RMI4_F12
select RMI4_F30
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Synaptics RMI4 touchpads.
Say Y here if you have a Synaptics RMI4 touchpads over i2c-hid or usbhid
and want support for its special functionalities.
config HID_GREENASIA
tristate "GreenAsia (Product ID 0x12) game controller support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a GreenAsia (Product ID 0x12) based game
controller or adapter.
bool "GreenAsia (Product ID 0x12) force feedback support"
depends on HID_GREENASIA
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a GreenAsia (Product ID 0x12) based game controller
(like MANTA Warrior MM816 and SpeedLink Strike2 SL-6635) or adapter
and want to enable force feedback support for it.
config HID_HYPERV_MOUSE
tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V mouse driver"
depends on HYPERV
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option to enable the Hyper-V mouse driver.
config HID_SMARTJOYPLUS
tristate "SmartJoy PLUS PS2/USB adapter support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for SmartJoy PLUS PS2/USB adapter, Super Dual Box,
Super Joy Box 3 Pro, Super Dual Box Pro, and Super Joy Box 5 Pro.
bool "SmartJoy PLUS PS2/USB adapter force feedback support"
depends on HID_SMARTJOYPLUS
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a SmartJoy PLUS PS2/USB adapter and want to
enable force feedback support for it.
config HID_TIVO
tristate "TiVo Slide Bluetooth remote control support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you have a TiVo Slide Bluetooth remote control.
config HID_TOPSEED
tristate "TopSeed Cyberlink, BTC Emprex, Conceptronic remote control support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you have a TopSeed Cyberlink or BTC Emprex or Conceptronic
CLLRCMCE remote control.
depends on HID
depends on LEDS_CLASS
select HID_LED
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the ThingM blink(1) USB RGB LED. This driver has been
merged into the generic hid led driver. Config symbol HID_THINGM
just selects HID_LED and will be removed soon.
config HID_THRUSTMASTER
tristate "ThrustMaster devices support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a THRUSTMASTER FireStore Dual Power 2 or
a THRUSTMASTER Ferrari GT Rumble Wheel.
bool "ThrustMaster devices force feedback support"
depends on HID_THRUSTMASTER
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a THRUSTMASTER FireStore Dual Power 2 or 3,
a THRUSTMASTER Dual Trigger 3-in-1 or a THRUSTMASTER Ferrari GT
Rumble Force or Force Feedback Wheel.
config HID_UDRAW_PS3
tristate "THQ PS3 uDraw tablet"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the THQ uDraw gaming tablet for
the PS3.
depends on LEDS_CLASS
select POWER_SUPPLY
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Nintendo Wii and Wii U Bluetooth peripherals. Supported
devices are the Wii Remote and its extension devices, but also devices
based on the Wii Remote like the Wii U Pro Controller or the
config HID_XINMO
tristate "Xin-Mo non-fully compliant devices"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Xin-Mo devices that are not fully compliant with the HID
standard. Currently only supports the Xin-Mo Dual Arcade. Say Y here
if you have a Xin-Mo Dual Arcade controller.
config HID_ZEROPLUS
tristate "Zeroplus based game controller support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Zeroplus based game controller.
config ZEROPLUS_FF
bool "Zeroplus based game controller force feedback support"
depends on HID_ZEROPLUS
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Zeroplus based game controller and want
to have force feedback support for it.
config HID_ZYDACRON
tristate "Zydacron remote control support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Zydacron remote control.
config HID_SENSOR_HUB
depends on HID && HAS_IOMEM
select MFD_CORE
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Support for HID Sensor framework. This creates a MFD instance
for a sensor hub and identifies all the sensors connected to it.
Each sensor is registered as a MFD cell, so that sensor specific
tristate "HID Sensors hub custom sensor support"
depends on HID_SENSOR_HUB
default n
- ---help---
+ help
HID Sensor hub specification allows definition of some custom and
generic sensors. Unlike other HID sensors, they can't be exported
via Linux IIO because of custom fields. This is up to the manufacturer
config HID_ALPS
tristate "Alps HID device support"
depends on HID
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Alps I2C HID touchpads and StickPointer.
Say Y here if you have a Alps touchpads over i2c-hid or usbhid
and want support for its special functionalities.
tristate "Microchip MCP2221 HID USB-to-I2C/SMbus host support"
depends on USB_HID && I2C
depends on GPIOLIB
- ---help---
+ help
Provides I2C and SMBUS host adapter functionality over USB-HID
through MCP2221 device.
default n
depends on I2C && INPUT
select HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you use a keyboard, a touchpad, a touchscreen, or any
other HID based devices which is connected to your computer via I2C.
default y
depends on USB && INPUT
select HID
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to connect USB keyboards,
mice, joysticks, graphic tablets, or any other HID based devices
to your computer via USB, as well as Uninterruptible Power Supply
config USB_KBD
tristate "USB HIDBP Keyboard (simple Boot) support"
depends on USB && INPUT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here only if you are absolutely sure that you don't want
to use the generic HID driver for your USB keyboard and prefer
to use the keyboard in its limited Boot Protocol mode instead.
config USB_MOUSE
tristate "USB HIDBP Mouse (simple Boot) support"
depends on USB && INPUT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here only if you are absolutely sure that you don't want
to use the generic HID driver for your USB mouse and prefer
to use the mouse in its limited Boot Protocol mode instead.
#
menuconfig HSI
tristate "HSI support"
- ---help---
+ help
The "High speed synchronous Serial Interface" is
synchronous serial interface used mainly to connect
application engines and cellular modems.
config HSI_CHAR
tristate "HSI/SSI character driver"
depends on HSI
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you will enable the HSI/SSI character driver.
This driver provides a simple character device interface for
serial communication with the cellular modem over HSI/SSI bus.
tristate "OMAP SSI hardware driver"
depends on HSI && OF && ARM && COMMON_CLK
depends on ARCH_OMAP3 || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
SSI is a legacy version of HSI. It is usually used to connect
an application engine with a cellular modem.
If you say Y here, you will enable the OMAP SSI hardware driver.
tristate "I2C support"
select RT_MUTEXES
select IRQ_DOMAIN
- ---help---
+ help
I2C (pronounce: I-squared-C) is a slow serial bus protocol used in
many micro controller applications and developed by Philips. SMBus,
or System Management Bus is a subset of the I2C protocol. More
depends on HAVE_IDE
depends on BLOCK
select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, your kernel will be able to manage ATA/(E)IDE and
ATAPI units. The most common cases are IDE hard drives and ATAPI
CD-ROM drives.
config BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA
bool "Support for SATA (deprecated; conflicts with libata SATA driver)"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
There are two drivers for Serial ATA controllers.
The main driver, "libata", uses the SCSI subsystem
depends on BLK_DEV
select IDE_ATAPI
select CDROM
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a CD-ROM drive using the ATAPI protocol, say Y. ATAPI is
a newer protocol used by IDE CD-ROM and TAPE drives, similar to the
SCSI protocol. Most new CD-ROM drives use ATAPI, including the
config BLK_DEV_IDEACPI
bool "IDE ACPI support"
depends on ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
Implement ACPI support for generic IDE devices. On modern
machines ACPI support is required to properly handle ACPI S3 states.
tristate "CMD640 chipset bugfix/support"
depends on X86
select IDE_TIMINGS
- ---help---
+ help
The CMD-Technologies CMD640 IDE chip is used on many common 486 and
Pentium motherboards, usually in combination with a "Neptune" or
"SiS" chipset. Unfortunately, it has a number of rather nasty
config MCP4725
tristate "MCP4725/6 DAC driver"
depends on I2C
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to build a driver for the Microchip
MCP 4725/6 12-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with I2C
interface.
depends on !ALPHA
select IRQ_POLL
select DIMLIB
- ---help---
+ help
Core support for InfiniBand (IB). Make sure to also select
any protocols you wish to use as well as drivers for your
InfiniBand hardware.
config INFINIBAND_USER_MAD
tristate "InfiniBand userspace MAD support"
depends on INFINIBAND
- ---help---
+ help
Userspace InfiniBand Management Datagram (MAD) support. This
is the kernel side of the userspace MAD support, which allows
userspace processes to send and receive MADs. You will also
config INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS
tristate "InfiniBand userspace access (verbs and CM)"
depends on MMU
- ---help---
+ help
Userspace InfiniBand access support. This enables the
kernel side of userspace verbs and the userspace
communication manager (CM). This allows userspace processes
config INFINIBAND_EXP_LEGACY_VERBS_NEW_UAPI
bool "Allow experimental legacy verbs in new ioctl uAPI (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS
- ---help---
+ help
IOCTL based uAPI support for Infiniband is enabled by default for
new verbs only. This allows userspace to invoke the IOCTL based uAPI
for current legacy verbs too.
select MMU_NOTIFIER
select INTERVAL_TREE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
On demand paging support for the InfiniBand subsystem.
Together with driver support this allows registration of
memory regions without pinning their pages, fetching the
bool "RDMA/CM"
depends on INFINIBAND
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Support for RDMA communication manager (CM).
This allows for a generic connection abstraction over RDMA.
bool
depends on INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS && CONFIGFS_FS && !(INFINIBAND=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
ConfigFS support for RDMA communication manager (CM).
This allows the user to config the default GID type that the CM
uses for each device, when initiaing new connections.
depends on ETHERNET && NETDEVICES && PCI && INET && DCB
select NET_VENDOR_BROADCOM
select BNXT
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Broadcom NetXtreme-E 10/25/40/50 gigabit
RoCE HCAs. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here:
the module will be called bnxt_re.
depends on INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS
select CHELSIO_LIB
select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
- ---help---
+ help
This is an iWARP/RDMA driver for the Chelsio T4 and T5
1GbE, 10GbE adapters and T5 40GbE adapter.
select MMU_NOTIFIER
select CRC32
select I2C_ALGOBIT
- ---help---
+ help
This is a low-level driver for Intel OPA Gen1 adapter.
config HFI1_DEBUG_SDMA_ORDER
bool "HFI1 SDMA Order debug"
depends on INFINIBAND_HFI1
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This is a debug flag to test for out of order
sdma completions for unit testing
config SDMA_VERBOSITY
bool "Config SDMA Verbosity"
depends on INFINIBAND_HFI1
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This is a configuration flag to enable verbose
SDMA debug
depends on NET_VENDOR_HISILICON
depends on ARM64 || (COMPILE_TEST && 64BIT)
depends on (HNS_DSAF && HNS_ENET) || HNS3
- ---help---
+ help
This is a RoCE/RDMA driver for the Hisilicon RoCE engine. The engine
is used in Hisilicon Hip06 and more further ICT SoC based on
platform device.
bool "Hisilicon Hip06 Family RoCE support"
depends on INFINIBAND_HNS && HNS && HNS_DSAF && HNS_ENET
depends on INFINIBAND_HNS=m || (HNS_DSAF=y && HNS_ENET=y)
- ---help---
+ help
RoCE driver support for Hisilicon RoCE engine in Hisilicon Hip06 and
Hip07 SoC. These RoCE engines are platform devices.
bool "Hisilicon Hip08 Family RoCE support"
depends on INFINIBAND_HNS && PCI && HNS3
depends on INFINIBAND_HNS=m || HNS3=y
- ---help---
+ help
RoCE driver support for Hisilicon RoCE engine in Hisilicon Hip08 SoC.
The RoCE engine is a PCI device.
depends on IPV6 || !IPV6
depends on PCI
select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
- ---help---
+ help
Intel(R) Ethernet X722 iWARP Driver
depends on NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && PCI && INET
select NET_VENDOR_MELLANOX
select MLX4_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides low-level InfiniBand support for
Mellanox ConnectX PCI Express host channel adapters (HCAs).
This is required to use InfiniBand protocols such as
config MLX5_INFINIBAND
tristate "Mellanox 5th generation network adapters (ConnectX series) support"
depends on NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && PCI && MLX5_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides low-level InfiniBand support for
Mellanox Connect-IB PCI Express host channel adapters (HCAs).
This is required to use InfiniBand protocols such as
config INFINIBAND_MTHCA
tristate "Mellanox HCA support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a low-level driver for Mellanox InfiniHost host
channel adapters (HCAs), including the MT23108 PCI-X HCA
("Tavor") and the MT25208 PCI Express HCA ("Arbel").
bool "Verbose debugging output" if EXPERT
depends on INFINIBAND_MTHCA
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option causes debugging code to be compiled into the
mthca driver. The output can be turned on via the
debug_level module parameter (which can also be set after
depends on ETHERNET && NETDEVICES && PCI && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
select NET_VENDOR_EMULEX
select BE2NET
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides low-level InfiniBand over Ethernet
support for Emulex One Connect host channel adapters (HCAs).
select QED_LL2
select QED_OOO
select QED_RDMA
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides low-level InfiniBand over Ethernet
support for QLogic QED host channel adapters (HCAs).
tristate "Intel PCIe HCA support"
depends on 64BIT && INFINIBAND_RDMAVT
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a low-level driver for Intel PCIe QLE InfiniBand host
channel adapters. This driver does not support the Intel
HyperTransport card (model QHT7140).
bool "QIB DCA support"
depends on INFINIBAND_QIB && DCA && SMP && !(INFINIBAND_QIB=y && DCA=m)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Setting this enables DCA support on some Intel chip sets
with the iba7322 HCA.
select ENIC
select NET_VENDOR_CISCO
select PCI_IOV
- ---help---
+ help
This is a low-level driver for Cisco's Virtual Interface
Cards (VICs), including the VIC 1240 and 1280 cards.
config INFINIBAND_VMWARE_PVRDMA
tristate "VMware Paravirtualized RDMA Driver"
depends on NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && PCI && INET && VMXNET3
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides low-level support for VMware Paravirtual
RDMA adapter. It interacts with the VMXNet3 driver to provide
Ethernet capabilities.
depends on X86_64 && ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT
depends on PCI
select DMA_VIRT_OPS
- ---help---
+ help
This is a common software verbs provider for RDMA networks.
select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
select CRYPTO_CRC32
select DMA_VIRT_OPS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver implements the InfiniBand RDMA transport over
the Linux network stack. It enables a system with a
standard Ethernet adapter to interoperate with a RoCE
config INFINIBAND_IPOIB
tristate "IP-over-InfiniBand"
depends on NETDEVICES && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the IP-over-InfiniBand protocol (IPoIB). This
transports IP packets over InfiniBand so you can use your IB
device as a fancy NIC.
bool "IP-over-InfiniBand Connected Mode support"
depends on INFINIBAND_IPOIB
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for IPoIB connected mode. After
enabling this option, you need to switch to connected mode
through /sys/class/net/ibXXX/mode to actually create
bool "IP-over-InfiniBand debugging" if EXPERT
depends on INFINIBAND_IPOIB
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option causes debugging code to be compiled into the
IPoIB driver. The output can be turned on via the
debug_level and mcast_debug_level module parameters (which
config INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG_DATA
bool "IP-over-InfiniBand data path debugging"
depends on INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG
- ---help---
+ help
This option compiles debugging code into the data path
of the IPoIB driver. The output can be turned on via the
data_debug_level module parameter; however, even with output
tristate "iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER)"
depends on SCSI && INET && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS
select SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) Protocol
over InfiniBand. This allows you to access storage devices
that speak iSCSI over iSER over InfiniBand.
config INFINIBAND_ISERT
tristate "iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) target support"
depends on INET && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS && TARGET_CORE && ISCSI_TARGET
- ---help---
+ help
Support for iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) Target on Infiniband fabrics.
config INFINIBAND_OPA_VNIC
tristate "Intel OPA VNIC support"
depends on X86_64 && INFINIBAND
- ---help---
+ help
This is Omni-Path (OPA) Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC)
driver for Ethernet over Omni-Path feature. It implements the HW
independent VNIC functionality. It interfaces with Linux stack for
tristate "InfiniBand SCSI RDMA Protocol"
depends on SCSI && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS
select SCSI_SRP_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the SCSI RDMA Protocol over InfiniBand. This
allows you to access storage devices that speak SRP over
InfiniBand.
config INFINIBAND_SRPT
tristate "InfiniBand SCSI RDMA Protocol target support"
depends on INFINIBAND && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS && TARGET_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP) Target driver. The
SRP protocol is a protocol that allows an initiator to access
#
config GAMEPORT
tristate "Gameport support"
- ---help---
+ help
Gameport support is for the standard 15-pin PC gameport. If you
have a joystick, gamepad, gameport card, a soundcard with a gameport
or anything else that uses the gameport, say Y or M here and also to
config JOYSTICK_ANALOG
tristate "Classic PC analog joysticks and gamepads"
select GAMEPORT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a joystick that connects to the PC
gameport. In addition to the usual PC analog joystick, this driver
supports many extensions, including joysticks with throttle control,
tristate "Multisystem, NES, SNES, N64, PSX joysticks and gamepads"
depends on PARPORT
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Nintendo Entertainment System gamepad,
Super Nintendo Entertainment System gamepad, Nintendo 64 gamepad,
Sony PlayStation gamepad or a Multisystem -- Atari, Amiga,
bool "X-Box gamepad rumble support"
depends on JOYSTICK_XPAD && INPUT
select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to take advantage of xbox 360 rumble features.
config JOYSTICK_XPAD_LEDS
bool "LED Support for Xbox360 controller 'BigX' LED"
depends on JOYSTICK_XPAD && (LEDS_CLASS=y || LEDS_CLASS=JOYSTICK_XPAD)
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for the LED which surrounds the Big X on
XBox 360 controller.
tristate "Amstrad Delta (E3) mailboard support"
depends on MACH_AMS_DELTA
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have an E3 and want to use its mailboard,
or any standard AT keyboard connected to the mailboard port.
bool "IOMMU Hardware Support"
depends on MMU
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to compile device drivers for IO Memory
Management Units into the kernel. These devices usually allow to
remap DMA requests and/or remap interrupts from other devices on the
select IOMMU_IOVA
select IOMMU_DMA
depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
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
tristate "AMD IOMMU Version 2 driver"
depends on AMD_IOMMU
select MMU_NOTIFIER
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for the AMD IOMMUv2 features of the IOMMU
hardware. Select this option if you want to use devices that support
the PCI PRI and PASID interface.
config AMD_IOMMU_DEBUGFS
bool "Enable AMD IOMMU internals in DebugFS"
depends on AMD_IOMMU && IOMMU_DEBUGFS
- ---help---
+ help
!!!WARNING!!! !!!WARNING!!! !!!WARNING!!! !!!WARNING!!!
DO NOT ENABLE THIS OPTION UNLESS YOU REALLY, -REALLY- KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!!
config INTEL_IOMMU_BROKEN_GFX_WA
bool "Workaround broken graphics drivers (going away soon)"
depends on INTEL_IOMMU && BROKEN && X86
- ---help---
+ help
Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address
for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config
option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for
config INTEL_IOMMU_FLOPPY_WA
def_bool y
depends on INTEL_IOMMU && X86
- ---help---
+ help
Floppy disk drivers are known to bypass DMA API calls
thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This
workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first
bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping"
depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI
select DMAR_TABLE
- ---help---
+ help
Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices.
To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or
to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y.
depends on ARM && MMU || (COMPILE_TEST && (ARM || ARM64 || IA64 || SPARC))
depends on ARCH_OMAP2PLUS || COMPILE_TEST
select IOMMU_API
- ---help---
+ help
The OMAP3 media platform drivers depend on iommu support,
if you need them say Y here.
config OMAP_IOMMU_DEBUG
bool "Export OMAP IOMMU internals in DebugFS"
depends on OMAP_IOMMU && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Select this to see extensive information about
the internal state of OMAP IOMMU in debugfs.
menuconfig IPACK_BUS
tristate "IndustryPack bus support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
This option provides support for the IndustryPack framework. There
are IndustryPack carrier boards, which interface another bus (such as
PCI) to an IndustryPack bus, and IndustryPack modules, that are
bool "ISDN support"
depends on NET && NETDEVICES
depends on !S390 && !UML
- ---help---
+ help
ISDN ("Integrated Services Digital Network", called RNIS in France)
is a fully digital telephone service that can be used for voice and
data connections. If your computer is equipped with an ISDN
bool "Macintosh device drivers"
depends on PPC || MAC || X86
default y if (PPC_PMAC || MAC)
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for devices used with Macintosh
computers. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
config BLK_DEV_MD
tristate "RAID support"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one
logical block device. This can be used to simply append one
partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks
bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD=y
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid
arrays as part of its boot process.
config MD_LINEAR
tristate "Linear (append) mode"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
partitions by simply appending one to the other.
config MD_RAID0
tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them
config MD_RAID1
tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD
- ---help---
+ help
A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies
of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver
will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing
config MD_RAID10
tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD
- ---help---
+ help
RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and
mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible
layout.
select ASYNC_XOR
select ASYNC_PQ
select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
- ---help---
+ help
A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
depends on BLK_DEV_MD
depends on DLM
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Clustering support for MD devices. This enables locking and
synchronization across multiple systems on the cluster, so all
nodes in the cluster can access the MD devices simultaneously.
tristate "Device mapper support"
select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
depends on DAX || DAX=n
- ---help---
+ help
Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various
mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own
config DM_DEBUG
bool "Device mapper debugging support"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems.
If unsure, say N.
config DM_BUFIO
tristate
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts
as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing
delayed writes.
config DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING
bool "Block manager locking"
depends on DM_BUFIO
- ---help---
+ help
Block manager locking can catch various metadata corruption issues.
If unsure, say N.
bool "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders"
depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING
select STACKTRACE
- ---help---
+ help
Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the
block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching.
config DM_BIO_PRISON
tristate
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets
including thin provisioning.
config DM_UNSTRIPED
tristate "Unstriped target"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
Unstripes I/O so it is issued solely on a single drive in a HW
RAID0 or dm-striped target.
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_CBC
select CRYPTO_ESSIV
- ---help---
+ help
This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
tristate "Snapshot target"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
select DM_BUFIO
- ---help---
+ help
Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device.
config DM_THIN_PROVISIONING
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
select DM_BIO_PRISON
- ---help---
+ help
Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store.
config DM_CACHE
default n
select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
select DM_BIO_PRISON
- ---help---
+ help
dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by
moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance
device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the
tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on DM_CACHE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hits
to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
config DM_WRITECACHE
tristate "Writecache target"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
The writecache target caches writes on persistent memory or SSD.
It is intended for databases or other programs that need extremely
low commit latency.
default n
select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
select DM_BIO_PRISON
- ---help---
+ help
dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to
over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using
vendor snapshots.
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
default n
select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
- ---help---
+ help
dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source
device into a writable destination device. The cloned device is
visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to the
config DM_MIRROR
tristate "Mirror target"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
tristate "Mirror userspace logging"
depends on DM_MIRROR && NET
select CONNECTOR
- ---help---
+ help
The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for
relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs
which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g.
select MD_RAID10
select MD_RAID456
select BLK_DEV_MD
- ---help---
+ help
A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
config DM_ZERO
tristate "Zero target"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
# it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
# error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
config DM_MULTIPATH_QL
tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os"
depends on DM_MULTIPATH
- ---help---
+ help
This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os.
config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time"
depends on DM_MULTIPATH
- ---help---
+ help
This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
time.
config DM_DELAY
tristate "I/O delaying target"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
them to different devices. Useful for testing.
config DM_DUST
tristate "Bad sector simulation target"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
A target that simulates bad sector behavior.
Useful for testing.
config DM_INIT
bool "DM \"dm-mod.create=\" parameter support"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM=y
- ---help---
+ help
Enable "dm-mod.create=" parameter to create mapped devices at init time.
This option is useful to allow mounting rootfs without requiring an
initramfs.
config DM_UEVENT
bool "DM uevents"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
Generate udev events for DM events.
config DM_FLAKEY
tristate "Flakey target"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes.
config DM_VERITY
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_HASH
select DM_BUFIO
- ---help---
+ help
This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that
transparently validates the data on one underlying device against
a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second
depends on DM_VERITY
select REED_SOLOMON
select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8
- ---help---
+ help
Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option
makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to
recover from corrupted blocks.
config DM_SWITCH
tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary
mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths.
The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically
config DM_LOG_WRITES
tristate "Log writes target support"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
- ---help---
+ help
This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use
normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device.
This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that
select DM_BUFIO
select CRYPTO
select ASYNC_XOR
- ---help---
+ help
This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has
additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing
integrity information.
tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED
- ---help---
+ help
This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned
block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block
device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
select LIBCRC32C
select DM_BUFIO
- ---help---
+ help
Library providing immutable on-disk data structure support for
device-mapper targets such as the thin provisioning target.
select REGMAP_MMIO
select CEC_CORE
select CEC_NOTIFIER
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for Amlogic Meson G12A SoCs AO CEC interface.
This driver if for the new AO-CEC module found in G12A SoCs,
usually named AO_CEC_B in documentation.
menuconfig FUSION
bool "Fusion MPT device support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for Fusion Message
Passing Technology (MPT) drivers.
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
tristate "Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SPI"
depends on PCI && SCSI
select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
SCSI HOST support for a parallel SCSI host adapters.
List of supported controllers:
tristate "Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for FC"
depends on PCI && SCSI
depends on SCSI_FC_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
SCSI HOST support for a Fiber Channel host adapters.
List of supported controllers:
tristate "Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SAS"
depends on PCI && SCSI
select SCSI_SAS_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
SCSI HOST support for a SAS host adapters.
List of supported controllers:
config FUSION_CTL
tristate "Fusion MPT misc device (ioctl) driver"
depends on FUSION_SPI || FUSION_FC || FUSION_SAS
- ---help---
+ help
The Fusion MPT misc device driver provides specialized control
of MPT adapters via system ioctl calls. Use of ioctl calls to
the MPT driver requires that you create and use a misc device
config FUSION_LAN
tristate "Fusion MPT LAN driver"
depends on FUSION_FC && NET_FC
- ---help---
+ help
This module supports LAN IP traffic over Fibre Channel port(s)
on Fusion MPT compatible hardware (LSIFC9xx chips).
The physical interface used is defined in RFC 2625.
config FUSION_LOGGING
bool "Fusion MPT logging facility"
- ---help---
+ help
This turns on a logging facility that can be used to debug a number
of Fusion MPT related problems.
tristate "AMD CS5535 and CS5536 southbridge core functions"
select MFD_CORE
depends on PCI && (X86_32 || (X86 && COMPILE_TEST))
- ---help---
+ help
This is the core driver for CS5535/CS5536 MFD functions. This is
necessary for using the board's GPIO and MFGPT functionality.
bool "Compaq ASIC3"
depends on GPIOLIB && ARM
select MFD_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the ASIC3 multifunction chip found on many
PDAs (mainly iPAQ and HTC based ones)
config MFD_SM501
tristate "Silicon Motion SM501"
depends on HAS_DMA
- ---help---
+ help
This is the core driver for the Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia
companion chip. This device is a multifunction device which may
provide numerous interfaces including USB host controller, USB gadget,
config MFD_SM501_GPIO
bool "Export GPIO via GPIO layer"
depends on MFD_SM501 && GPIOLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This option uses the gpio library layer to export the 64 GPIO
lines on the SM501. The platform data is used to supply the
base number for the first GPIO line to register.
tristate "Timberdale FPGA"
select MFD_CORE
depends on PCI && GPIOLIB && (X86_32 || COMPILE_TEST)
- ---help---
+ help
This is the core driver for the timberdale FPGA. This device is a
multifunction device which exposes numerous platform devices.
config DUMMY_IRQ
tristate "Dummy IRQ handler"
- ---help---
+ help
This module accepts a single 'irq' parameter, which it should register for.
The sole purpose of this module is to help with debugging of systems on
which spurious IRQs would happen on disabled IRQ vector.
tristate "Device driver for IBM RSA service processor"
depends on X86 && PCI && INPUT
depends on SERIAL_8250 || SERIAL_8250=n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables device driver support for in-band access to the
IBM RSA (Condor) service processor in eServer xSeries systems.
The ibmasm device driver allows user space application to access
config ATMEL_SSC
tristate "Device driver for Atmel SSC peripheral"
depends on HAS_IOMEM && (ARCH_AT91 || COMPILE_TEST)
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables device driver support for Atmel Synchronized
Serial Communication peripheral (SSC).
depends on (IA64_SGI_UV || X86_UV) && SMP
depends on X86_64 || BROKEN
select SGI_GRU if X86_64 && SMP
- ---help---
+ help
An SGI machine can be divided into multiple Single System
Images which act independently of each other and have
hardware based memory protection from the others. Enabling
tristate "SGI GRU driver"
depends on X86_UV && SMP
select MMU_NOTIFIER
- ---help---
+ help
The GRU is a hardware resource located in the system chipset. The GRU
contains memory that can be mmapped into the user address space. This memory is
used to communicate with the GRU to perform functions such as load/store,
config SGI_GRU_DEBUG
bool "SGI GRU driver debug"
depends on SGI_GRU
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables additional debugging code for the SGI GRU driver.
If you are unsure, say N.
config SENSORS_BH1770
tristate "BH1770GLC / SFH7770 combined ALS - Proximity sensor"
depends on I2C
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to build a driver for BH1770GLC (ROHM) or
SFH7770 (Osram) combined ambient light and proximity sensor chip.
config SENSORS_APDS990X
tristate "APDS990X combined als and proximity sensors"
depends on I2C
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to build a driver for Avago APDS990x
combined ambient light and proximity sensor chip.
depends on PCI
select CRC32
tristate "PCI Endpoint Test driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Enable this configuration option to enable the host side test driver
for PCI Endpoint.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config ECHO
tristate "Line Echo Canceller support"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides line echo cancelling support for mISDN and
Zaptel drivers.
tristate "Marvell MMC/SD/SDIO host driver"
depends on PLAT_ORION
depends on OF
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the Marvell SDIO host driver.
SDIO may currently be found on the Kirkwood 88F6281 and 88F6192
SoC controllers.
default y if UML
depends on NET
bool "Network device support"
- ---help---
+ help
You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to
any other computer at all.
config NET_CORE
default y
bool "Network core driver support"
- ---help---
+ help
You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the
networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.)
tristate "Bonding driver support"
depends on INET
depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
- ---help---
+ help
Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet
Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco,
'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux.
config DUMMY
tristate "Dummy net driver support"
- ---help---
+ help
This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to
this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP
address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently
config EQUALIZER
tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support"
- ---help---
+ help
If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this
usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use
SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone
tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
select NET_REDIRECT
- ---help---
+ help
This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of
resources.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
config MACVLAN
tristate "MAC-VLAN support"
- ---help---
+ help
This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to
or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface.
tristate "IP-VLAN support"
depends on INET
depends on IPV6 || !IPV6
- ---help---
+ help
This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface
and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr)
on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2
depends on IPVLAN
depends on INET
select TAP
- ---help---
+ help
This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based
on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device
can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type
depends on INET
select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
select GRO_CELLS
- ---help---
+ help
This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide
Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used
to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments.
depends on IPV6 || !IPV6
select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
select GRO_CELLS
- ---help---
+ help
This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide
Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used
to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments.
tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)"
depends on INET
select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
- ---help---
+ help
This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide
the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol
is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core
select CRYPTO_AES
select CRYPTO_GCM
select GRO_CELLS
- ---help---
+ help
MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet.
config NETCONSOLE
tristate "Network console logging support"
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details.
tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support"
depends on INET
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space
programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet
device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media,
config TAP
tristate
- ---help---
+ help
This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space
interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality.
config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE
bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a
little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a
big-endian legacy virtio device.
config VETH
tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device"
- ---help---
+ help
This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs.
When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice
versa.
tristate "Virtio network driver"
depends on VIRTIO
select NET_FAILOVER
- ---help---
+ help
This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with
QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
config NLMON
tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The
purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets.
Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink
depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV
depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The
support enables VRF devices.
config VSOCKMON
tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device"
depends on VHOST_VSOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is
mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If
unsure, say N.
config NET_SB1000
tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000"
depends on PNP
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as
NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal
cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable
config ATALK
tristate "Appletalk protocol support"
select LLC
- ---help---
+ help
AppleTalk is the protocol that Apple computers can use to communicate
on a network. If your Linux box is connected to such a network and you
wish to connect to it, say Y. You will need to use the netatalk package
config IPDDP
tristate "Appletalk-IP driver support"
depends on DEV_APPLETALK && ATALK
- ---help---
+ help
This allows IP networking for users who only have AppleTalk
networking available. This feature is experimental. With this
driver, you can encapsulate IP inside AppleTalk (e.g. if your Linux
menuconfig ARCNET
depends on NETDEVICES && (ISA || PCI || PCMCIA)
tristate "ARCnet support"
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network card of this type, say Y and check out the
(arguably) beautiful poetry in
<file:Documentation/networking/arcnet.rst>.
config ARCNET_1051
tristate "Enable old ARCNet packet format (RFC 1051)"
- ---help---
+ help
This allows you to use RFC1051 with your ARCnet card via the virtual
arc0s device. You only need arc0s if you want to talk to ARCnet
software complying with the "old" standard, specifically, the DOS
config ARCNET_COM90xxIO
tristate "ARCnet COM90xx (IO mapped) chipset driver"
- ---help---
+ help
This is the chipset driver for the COM90xx cards, using them in
IO-mapped mode instead of memory-mapped mode. This is slower than
the normal driver. Only use it if your card doesn't support shared
config ARCNET_RIM_I
tristate "ARCnet COM90xx (RIM I) chipset driver"
- ---help---
+ help
This is yet another chipset driver for the COM90xx cards, but this
time only using memory-mapped mode, and no IO ports at all. This
driver is completely untested, so if you have one of these cards,
tristate "CAIF TTY transport driver"
depends on CAIF && TTY
default n
- ---help---
+ help
The CAIF TTY transport driver is a Line Discipline (ldisc)
identified as N_CAIF. When this ldisc is opened from user space
it will redirect the TTY's traffic into the CAIF stack.
tristate "CAIF SPI transport driver for slave interface"
depends on CAIF && HAS_DMA
default n
- ---help---
+ help
The CAIF Link layer SPI Protocol driver for Slave SPI interface.
This driver implements a platform driver to accommodate for a
platform specific SPI device. A sample CAIF SPI Platform device is
bool "Next command and length in start of frame"
depends on CAIF_SPI_SLAVE
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Putting the next command and length in the start of the frame can
help to synchronize to the next transfer in case of over or under-runs.
This option also needs to be enabled on the modem.
tristate "CAIF HSI transport driver"
depends on CAIF
default n
- ---help---
+ help
The CAIF low level driver for CAIF over HSI.
Be aware that if you enable this then you also need to
enable a low-level HSI driver.
select VIRTIO
select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
default n
- ---help---
+ help
The CAIF driver for CAIF over Virtio.
endif # CAIF_DRIVERS
config CAN_VCAN
tristate "Virtual Local CAN Interface (vcan)"
- ---help---
+ help
Similar to the network loopback devices, vcan offers a
virtual local CAN interface.
config CAN_VXCAN
tristate "Virtual CAN Tunnel (vxcan)"
- ---help---
+ help
Similar to the virtual ethernet driver veth, vxcan implements a
local CAN traffic tunnel between two virtual CAN network devices.
When creating a vxcan, two vxcan devices are created as pair.
config CAN_SLCAN
tristate "Serial / USB serial CAN Adaptors (slcan)"
depends on TTY
- ---help---
+ help
CAN driver for several 'low cost' CAN interfaces that are attached
via serial lines or via USB-to-serial adapters using the LAWICEL
ASCII protocol. The driver implements the tty linediscipline N_SLCAN.
config CAN_DEV
tristate "Platform CAN drivers with Netlink support"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Enables the common framework for platform CAN drivers with Netlink
support. This is the standard library for CAN drivers.
If unsure, say Y.
config CAN_CALC_BITTIMING
bool "CAN bit-timing calculation"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If enabled, CAN bit-timing parameters will be calculated for the
bit-rate specified via Netlink argument "bitrate" when the device
get started. This works fine for the most common CAN controllers
# fulfills your needs instead of fixing this driver.
depends on BROKEN
select LEDS_TRIGGERS
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds two LED triggers for packet receive and transmit
events on each supported CAN device.
config CAN_AT91
tristate "Atmel AT91 onchip CAN controller"
depends on (ARCH_AT91 || COMPILE_TEST) && HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the SoC CAN controller in Atmel's AT91SAM9263
and AT91SAM9X5 processors.
config CAN_FLEXCAN
tristate "Support for Freescale FLEXCAN based chips"
depends on OF && HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to support for Freescale FlexCAN.
config CAN_GRCAN
tristate "Aeroflex Gaisler GRCAN and GRHCAN CAN devices"
depends on OF && HAS_DMA
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Aeroflex Gaisler GRCAN or GRHCAN.
Note that the driver supports little endian, even though little
endian syntheses of the cores would need some modifications on
config CAN_JANZ_ICAN3
tristate "Janz VMOD-ICAN3 Intelligent CAN controller"
depends on MFD_JANZ_CMODIO
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for Janz VMOD-ICAN3 Intelligent CAN controller module, which
connects to a MODULbus carrier board.
config CAN_SUN4I
tristate "Allwinner A10 CAN controller"
depends on MACH_SUN4I || MACH_SUN7I || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use CAN controller found on Allwinner
A10/A20 SoCs.
config CAN_TI_HECC
depends on ARM
tristate "TI High End CAN Controller"
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for TI HECC (High End CAN Controller) module found on many
TI devices. The device specifications are available from www.ti.com
tristate "Xilinx CAN"
depends on ARCH_ZYNQ || ARM64 || MICROBLAZE || COMPILE_TEST
depends on COMMON_CLK && HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
Xilinx CAN driver. This driver supports both soft AXI CAN IP and
Zynq CANPS IP.
config PCH_CAN
tristate "Intel EG20T PCH CAN controller"
depends on PCI && (X86_32 || COMPILE_TEST)
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for PCH CAN of Topcliff (Intel EG20T PCH) which
is an IOH for x86 embedded processor (Intel Atom E6xx series).
This driver can access CAN bus.
config CAN_DEBUG_DEVICES
bool "CAN devices debugging messages"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want the CAN device drivers to produce a bunch of
debug messages to the system log. Select this if you are having
a problem with CAN support and want to see more of what is going
config CAN_C_CAN_PLATFORM
tristate "Generic Platform Bus based C_CAN/D_CAN driver"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for the C_CAN/D_CAN chips connected
to the "platform bus" (Linux abstraction for directly to the
processor attached devices) which can be found on various
config CAN_C_CAN_PCI
tristate "Generic PCI Bus based C_CAN/D_CAN driver"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for the C_CAN/D_CAN chips connected
to the PCI bus.
endif
config CAN_CC770_ISA
tristate "ISA Bus based legacy CC770 driver"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds legacy support for CC770 and AN82527 chips
connected to the ISA bus using I/O port, memory mapped or
indirect access.
config CAN_CC770_PLATFORM
tristate "Generic Platform Bus based CC770 driver"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for the CC770 and AN82527 chips
connected to the "platform bus" (Linux abstraction for directly
to the processor attached devices).
config CAN_IFI_CANFD
depends on HAS_IOMEM
tristate "IFI CAN_FD IP"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for the I/F/I CAN_FD soft IP block
connected to the "platform bus" (Linux abstraction for directly
to the processor attached devices). The CAN_FD is most often
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config CAN_M_CAN
tristate "Bosch M_CAN support"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want support for Bosch M_CAN controller framework.
This is common support for devices that embed the Bosch M_CAN IP.
tristate "Bosch M_CAN support for io-mapped devices"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
depends on CAN_M_CAN
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want support for IO Mapped Bosch M_CAN controller.
This support is for devices that have the Bosch M_CAN controller
IP embedded into the device and the IP is IO Mapped to the processor.
depends on CAN_M_CAN
depends on REGMAP_SPI
tristate "TCAN4X5X M_CAN device"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want support for Texas Instruments TCAN4x5x
M_CAN controller. This device is a peripherial device that uses the
SPI bus for communication.
config CAN_MSCAN
depends on PPC
tristate "Support for Freescale MSCAN based chips"
- ---help---
+ help
The Motorola Scalable Controller Area Network (MSCAN) definition
is based on the MSCAN12 definition which is the specific
implementation of the Motorola Scalable CAN concept targeted for
config CAN_MPC5XXX
tristate "Freescale MPC5xxx onboard CAN controller"
depends on (PPC_MPC52xx || PPC_MPC512x)
- ---help---
+ help
If you say yes here you get support for Freescale's MPC5xxx
onboard CAN controller. Currently, the MPC5200, MPC5200B and
MPC5121 (Rev. 2 and later) are supported.
config CAN_PEAK_PCIEFD
depends on PCI
tristate "PEAK-System PCAN-PCIe FD cards"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for the PEAK-System PCI Express FD
CAN-FD cards family.
These 1x or 2x CAN-FD channels cards offer CAN 2.0 a/b as well as
config CAN_RCAR
tristate "Renesas R-Car CAN controller"
depends on ARCH_RENESAS || ARM
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use CAN controller found on Renesas R-Car
SoCs.
config CAN_RCAR_CANFD
tristate "Renesas R-Car CAN FD controller"
depends on ARCH_RENESAS || ARM
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use CAN FD controller found on
Renesas R-Car SoCs. The driver puts the controller in CAN FD only
mode, which can interoperate with CAN2.0 nodes but does not support
config CAN_EMS_PCI
tristate "EMS CPC-PCI, CPC-PCIe and CPC-104P Card"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the one, two or four channel CPC-PCI,
CPC-PCIe and CPC-104P cards from EMS Dr. Thomas Wuensche
(http://www.ems-wuensche.de).
config CAN_EMS_PCMCIA
tristate "EMS CPC-CARD Card"
depends on PCMCIA
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the one or two channel CPC-CARD cards from
EMS Dr. Thomas Wuensche (http://www.ems-wuensche.de).
config CAN_KVASER_PCI
tristate "Kvaser PCIcanx and Kvaser PCIcan PCI Cards"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the PCIcanx and PCIcan cards (1, 2 or
4 channel) from Kvaser (http://www.kvaser.com).
config CAN_PEAK_PCI
tristate "PEAK PCAN-PCI/PCIe/miniPCI Cards"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the PCAN-PCI/PCIe/miniPCI cards
(1, 2, 3 or 4 channels) from PEAK-System Technik
(http://www.peak-system.com).
select I2C
select I2C_ALGOBIT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use a PCAN-ExpressCard from PEAK-System
Technik. This will also automatically select I2C and I2C_ALGO
configuration options.
tristate "PEAK PCAN-PC Card"
depends on PCMCIA
depends on HAS_IOPORT_MAP
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the PCAN-PC Card PCMCIA adapter (1 or 2 channels)
from PEAK-System (http://www.peak-system.com). To compile this
driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
config CAN_PLX_PCI
tristate "PLX90xx PCI-bridge based Cards"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for CAN interface cards based on
the PLX90xx PCI bridge.
Driver supports now:
config CAN_SJA1000_ISA
tristate "ISA Bus based legacy SJA1000 driver"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds legacy support for SJA1000 chips connected to
the ISA bus using I/O port, memory mapped or indirect access.
config CAN_SJA1000_PLATFORM
tristate "Generic Platform Bus based SJA1000 driver"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for the SJA1000 chips connected to
the "platform bus" (Linux abstraction for directly to the
processor attached devices). Which can be found on various
config CAN_SOFTING
tristate "Softing Gmbh CAN generic support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
Support for CAN cards from Softing Gmbh & some cards
from Vector Gmbh.
Softing Gmbh CAN cards come with 1 or 2 physical busses.
tristate "Softing Gmbh CAN pcmcia cards"
depends on PCMCIA
depends on CAN_SOFTING
- ---help---
+ help
Support for PCMCIA cards from Softing Gmbh & some cards
from Vector Gmbh.
You need firmware for these, which you can get at
config CAN_HI311X
tristate "Holt HI311x SPI CAN controllers"
depends on CAN_DEV && SPI && HAS_DMA
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for the Holt HI311x SPI CAN controllers.
config CAN_MCP251X
tristate "Microchip MCP251x and MCP25625 SPI CAN controllers"
depends on HAS_DMA
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for the Microchip MCP251x and MCP25625 SPI CAN
controllers.
config CAN_8DEV_USB
tristate "8 devices USB2CAN interface"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the USB2CAN interface
from 8 devices (http://www.8devices.com).
config CAN_EMS_USB
tristate "EMS CPC-USB/ARM7 CAN/USB interface"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the one channel CPC-USB/ARM7 CAN/USB interface
from EMS Dr. Thomas Wuensche (http://www.ems-wuensche.de).
config CAN_ESD_USB2
tristate "ESD USB/2 CAN/USB interface"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the CAN-USB/2 interface
from esd electronic system design gmbh (http://www.esd.eu).
config CAN_GS_USB
tristate "Geschwister Schneider UG interfaces"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Geschwister Schneider and bytewerk.org
candleLight USB CAN interfaces USB/CAN devices
If unsure choose N,
config CAN_KVASER_USB
tristate "Kvaser CAN/USB interface"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for Kvaser CAN/USB devices like Kvaser
Leaf Light, Kvaser USBcan II and Kvaser Memorator Pro 5xHS.
config CAN_MCBA_USB
tristate "Microchip CAN BUS Analyzer interface"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the CAN BUS Analyzer interface
from Microchip (http://www.microchip.com/development-tools/).
config CAN_PEAK_USB
tristate "PEAK PCAN-USB/USB Pro interfaces for CAN 2.0b/CAN-FD"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the PEAK-System Technik USB adapters that enable
access to the CAN bus, with repect to the CAN 2.0b and/or CAN-FD
standards, that is:
config CAN_UCAN
tristate "Theobroma Systems UCAN interface"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Theobroma Systems
UCAN USB-CAN interface.
select BCM7XXX_PHY
select MDIO_BCM_UNIMAC
select B53
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the Broadcom Starfighter 2 Ethernet
switch chips.
tristate "DSA mock-up Ethernet switch chip support"
depends on NET_DSA
select FIXED_PHY
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for a fake mock-up switch chip which
exercises the DSA APIs.
tristate "Lantiq / Intel GSWIP"
depends on HAS_IOMEM && NET_DSA
select NET_DSA_TAG_GSWIP
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the Lantiq / Intel GSWIP 2.1 found in
the xrx200 / VR9 SoC.
tristate "Mediatek MT7530 Ethernet switch support"
depends on NET_DSA
select NET_DSA_TAG_MTK
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the Mediatek MT7530 Ethernet switch
chip.
tristate "Marvell 88E6060 ethernet switch chip support"
depends on NET_DSA
select NET_DSA_TAG_TRAILER
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the Marvell 88E6060 ethernet switch
chip.
depends on NET_DSA
select NET_DSA_TAG_QCA
select REGMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the Qualcomm Atheros QCA8K Ethernet
switch chips.
select IRQ_DOMAIN
select REALTEK_PHY
select REGMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the Realtek SMI-based switch
chips, currently only RTL8366RB.
tristate
select NET_DSA_TAG_LAN9303
select REGMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the SMSC/Microchip LAN9303 3 port ethernet
switch chips.
depends on NET_DSA && I2C
select NET_DSA_SMSC_LAN9303
select REGMAP_I2C
- ---help---
+ help
Enable access functions if the SMSC/Microchip LAN9303 is configured
for I2C managed mode.
tristate "SMSC/Microchip LAN9303 3-ports 10/100 ethernet switch in MDIO managed mode"
depends on NET_DSA
select NET_DSA_SMSC_LAN9303
- ---help---
+ help
Enable access functions if the SMSC/Microchip LAN9303 is configured
for MDIO managed mode.
select FIXED_PHY
select VITESSE_PHY
select GPIOLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the Vitesse VSC7385, VSC7388,
VSC7395 and VSC7398 SparX integrated ethernet switches.
depends on NET_DSA
depends on SPI
select NET_DSA_VITESSE_VSC73XX
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the Vitesse VSC7385, VSC7388, VSC7395
and VSC7398 SparX integrated ethernet switches in SPI managed mode.
depends on NET_DSA
depends on HAS_IOMEM
select NET_DSA_VITESSE_VSC73XX
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the Vitesse VSC7385, VSC7388, VSC7395
and VSC7398 SparX integrated ethernet switches, connected over
a CPU-attached address bus and work in memory-mapped I/O mode.
depends on NET_DSA
select NET_DSA_TAG_AR9331
select REGMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the Qualcomm Atheros AR9331 built-in Ethernet
switch.
bool "3Com devices"
default y
depends on ISA || EISA || PCI || PCMCIA
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config EL3
tristate "3c509/3c579 \"EtherLink III\" support"
depends on (ISA || EISA)
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to the 3Com
EtherLinkIII series, say Y here.
config 3C515
tristate "3c515 ISA \"Fast EtherLink\""
depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API && !PPC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a 3Com ISA EtherLink XL "Corkscrew" 3c515 Fast Ethernet
network card, say Y here.
config PCMCIA_3C574
tristate "3Com 3c574 PCMCIA support"
depends on PCMCIA
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you intend to attach a 3Com 3c574 or compatible PCMCIA
(PC-card) Fast Ethernet card to your computer.
config PCMCIA_3C589
tristate "3Com 3c589 PCMCIA support"
depends on PCMCIA
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you intend to attach a 3Com 3c589 or compatible PCMCIA
(PC-card) Ethernet card to your computer.
tristate "3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) \"Vortex/Boomerang\" support"
depends on (PCI || EISA) && HAS_IOPORT_MAP
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables driver support for a large number of 10Mbps and
10/100Mbps EISA, PCI and Cardbus 3Com network cards:
tristate "3cr990 series \"Typhoon\" support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables driver support for the 3cr990 series of cards:
3C990-TX, 3CR990-TX-95, 3CR990-TX-97, 3CR990-FX-95, 3CR990-FX-97,
bool "National Semiconductor 8390 devices"
default y
depends on NET_VENDOR_NATSEMI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config PCMCIA_AXNET
tristate "Asix AX88190 PCMCIA support"
depends on PCMCIA
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you intend to attach an Asix AX88190-based PCMCIA
(PC-card) Fast Ethernet card to your computer. These cards are
nearly NE2000 compatible but need a separate driver due to a few
select CRC32
select PHYLIB
select MDIO_BITBANG
- ---help---
+ help
AX88796 driver, using platform bus to provide
chip detection and resources
bool "ASIX AX88796 external 93CX6 eeprom support"
depends on AX88796
select EEPROM_93CX6
- ---help---
+ help
Select this if your platform comes with an external 93CX6 eeprom.
config XSURF100
tristate "Hydra support"
depends on ZORRO
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a Hydra Ethernet adapter, say Y. Otherwise, say N.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
tristate "I-cubed EtherH/ANT EtherM support"
depends on ARM && ARCH_ACORN
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have an Acorn system with one of these network cards, you
should say Y to this option if you wish to use it with Linux.
tristate "Macintosh NS 8390 based ethernet cards"
depends on MAC
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to include a driver to support Nubus or LC-PDS
Ethernet cards using an NS8390 chipset or its equivalent, say Y.
tristate "ColdFire NS8390 based Ethernet support"
depends on COLDFIRE
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for Ethernet devices using an NS8390-compatible
chipset on many common ColdFire CPU based boards. Many of the older
Freescale dev boards use this, and some other common boards like
tristate "NE2000/NE1000 support"
depends on (ISA || (Q40 && m) || MACH_TX49XX || ATARI_ETHERNEC)
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y here.
Many Ethernet cards without a specific driver are compatible with
the NE2000.
tristate "PCI NE2000 and clones support (see help)"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for NE2000 compatible PCI cards. It will not work
with ISA NE2000 cards (they have their own driver, "NE2000/NE1000
support" below). If you have a PCI NE2000 network (Ethernet) card,
tristate "PCMCIA NE2000 support"
depends on AMIGA_PCMCIA
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a PCMCIA NE2000 compatible adapter, say Y. Otherwise,
say N.
tristate "NE2000 compatible PCMCIA support"
depends on PCMCIA
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you intend to attach an NE2000 compatible PCMCIA
(PC-card) Ethernet or Fast Ethernet card to your computer.
tristate "National DP83902AV support"
depends on SUPERH
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Support for cards based on the National Semiconductor DP83902AV
ST-NIC Serial Network Interface Controller for Twisted Pair. This
is a 10Mbit/sec Ethernet controller. Product overview and specs at
tristate "SMC Ultra support"
depends on ISA
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y here.
Important: There have been many reports that, with some motherboards
tristate "WD80*3 support"
depends on ISA
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y here.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
tristate "Zorro NS8390-based Ethernet support"
depends on ZORRO
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for Zorro Ethernet cards using an NS8390-compatible
chipset, like the Village Tronic Ariadne II and the Individual
Computers X-Surf Ethernet cards. If you have such a card, say Y.
bool "Ethernet driver support"
depends on NET
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This section contains all the Ethernet device drivers.
if ETHERNET
tristate "Beckhoff CX5020 EtherCAT master support"
depends on PCI
depends on X86 || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for EtherCAT master module located on CCAT FPGA
that can be found on Beckhoff CX5020, and possibly other of CX
Beckhoff CX series industrial PCs.
tristate "Dave ethernet support (DNET)"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
The Dave ethernet interface (DNET) is found on Qong Board FPGA.
Say Y to include support for the DNET chip.
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the PCI-Express gigabit ethernet adapters
based on JMicron JMC250 chipset.
config KORINA
tristate "Korina (IDT RC32434) Ethernet support"
depends on MIKROTIK_RB532
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a Mikrotik RouterBoard 500 or IDT RC32434
based system say Y. Otherwise say N.
config LANTIQ_ETOP
tristate "Lantiq SoC ETOP driver"
depends on SOC_TYPE_XWAY
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the MII0 inside the Lantiq SoC
config LANTIQ_XRX200
tristate "Lantiq / Intel xRX200 PMAC network driver"
depends on SOC_TYPE_XWAY
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the PMAC of the Gigabit switch (GSWIP) inside the
Lantiq / Intel VRX200 VDSL SoC
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to support the Myson MTD-800 family of PCI-based Ethernet
cards. <http://www.myson.com.tw/>
select PHYLIB
select CRC32
select BITREVERSE
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the OpenCores 10/100 Mbps Ethernet MAC.
source "drivers/net/ethernet/packetengines/Kconfig"
bool "Adaptec devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have an Adaptec Starfire (or DuraLAN) PCI network
adapter. The DuraLAN chip is used on the 64 bit PCI boards from
Adaptec e.g. the ANA-6922A. The older 32 bit boards use the tulip
depends on SPARC
select PHYLIB
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the Aeroflex Gaisler GRETH Ethernet MAC.
bool "Agere devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Agere ET-1310 Gigabit Ethernet support"
depends on PCI
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Agere ET-1310 ethernet adapters.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
config NET_VENDOR_ALACRITECH
bool "Alacritech devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Alacritech Slicoss support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the
Session Layer Interface (SLIC) technology by Alacritech.
default y
depends on ARCH_SUNXI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this
class, say Y here.
select MII
select PHYLIB
select MDIO_SUN4I
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Allwinner A10 EMAC ethernet driver.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
bool "Alteon devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config ACENIC
tristate "Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have an Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3C985(B), NetGear
GA620, SGI Gigabit or Farallon PN9000-SX PCI Gigabit Ethernet
adapter. The driver allows for using the Jumbo Frame option (9000
config ACENIC_OMIT_TIGON_I
bool "Omit support for old Tigon I based AceNICs"
depends on ACENIC
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you only have Tigon II based AceNICs and want to leave
out support for the older Tigon I based cards which are no longer
being sold (ie. the original Alteon AceNIC and 3Com 3C985 (non B
tristate "Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet MAC support"
depends on HAS_DMA
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Altera Triple-Speed (TSE) Ethernet MAC.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
config NET_VENDOR_AMAZON
bool "Amazon Devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) device belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) support"
depends on PCI_MSI && !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
select DIMLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)"
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here.
depends on DIO || MACH_DECSTATION || MVME147 || ATARI || SUN3 || \
SUN3X || SBUS || PCI || ZORRO || (ISA && ISA_DMA_API) || \
(ARM && ARCH_EBSA110) || ISA || EISA || PCMCIA || ARM64
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) chipset belonging to this class,
say Y.
tristate "A2065 support"
depends on ZORRO
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a Commodore A2065 Ethernet adapter, say Y. Otherwise,
say N.
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
If you have an AMD 8111-based PCI LANCE ethernet card,
answer Y here.
config LANCE
tristate "AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support"
depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API && !ARM && !PPC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y here.
Some LinkSys cards are of this type.
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a PCnet32 or PCnetPCI based network (Ethernet) card,
answer Y here.
config ARIADNE
tristate "Ariadne support"
depends on ZORRO
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a Village Tronic Ariadne Ethernet adapter, say Y.
Otherwise, say N.
bool "ARM EBSA110 AM79C961A support"
depends on ARM && ARCH_EBSA110
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you wish to compile a kernel for the EBSA-110, then you should
always answer Y to this.
config ATARILANCE
tristate "Atari LANCE support"
depends on ATARI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to include support for several Atari Ethernet adapters based
on the AMD LANCE chipset: RieblCard (with or without battery), or
PAMCard VME (also the version by Rhotron, with different addresses).
tristate "DEC LANCE ethernet controller support"
depends on MACH_DECSTATION
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the series of Ethernet controllers produced by
DEC (now Compaq) based on the AMD LANCE chipset, including the
DEPCA series. (This chipset is better known via the NE2100 cards.)
tristate "HP on-board LANCE support"
depends on DIO
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to use the builtin "LANCE" Ethernet controller on an
HP300 machine, say Y here.
depends on MIPS_ALCHEMY
select PHYLIB
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have an Alchemy Semi AU1X00 based system
say Y. Otherwise, say N.
tristate "MVME147 (LANCE) Ethernet support"
depends on MVME147
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the on-board Ethernet interface on the Motorola MVME147
single-board computer. Say Y here to include the
driver for this chip in your kernel.
config NI65
tristate "NI6510 support"
depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API && !ARM && !PPC32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y here.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
config SUN3LANCE
tristate "Sun3/Sun3x on-board LANCE support"
depends on (SUN3 || SUN3X)
- ---help---
+ help
Most Sun3 and Sun3x motherboards (including the 3/50, 3/60 and 3/80)
featured an AMD LANCE 10Mbit Ethernet controller on board; say Y
here to compile in the Linux driver for this and enable Ethernet.
tristate "Sun LANCE support"
depends on SBUS
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the "le" interface present on all 32-bit Sparc
systems, on some older Ultra systems and as an Sbus option. These
cards are based on the AMD LANCE chipset, which is better known
select PHYLIB
select AMD_XGBE_HAVE_ECC if X86
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the AMD 10GbE Ethernet device found on an
AMD SoC.
bool "Data Center Bridging (DCB) support"
default n
depends on AMD_XGBE && DCB
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable Data Center Bridging (DCB) support in the
driver.
bool "Apple devices"
default y
depends on (PPC_PMAC && PPC32) || MAC
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "MACE (Power Mac ethernet) support"
depends on PPC_PMAC && PPC32
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Power Macintoshes and clones with Ethernet built-in on the
motherboard will usually use a MACE (Medium Access Control for
Ethernet) interface. Say Y to include support for the MACE chip.
config MACE_AAUI_PORT
bool "Use AAUI port instead of TP by default"
depends on MACE
- ---help---
+ help
Some Apple machines (notably the Apple Network Server) which use the
MACE ethernet chip have an Apple AUI port (small 15-pin connector),
instead of an 8-pin RJ45 connector for twisted-pair ethernet. Say
tristate "BMAC (G3 ethernet) support"
depends on PPC_PMAC && PPC32
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y for support of BMAC Ethernet interfaces. These are used on G3
computers.
tristate "Macintosh (AV) onboard MACE ethernet"
depends on MAC
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the onboard AMD 79C940 MACE Ethernet controller used in
the 660AV and 840AV Macintosh. If you have one of these Macintoshes
say Y here.
config NET_VENDOR_AQUANTIA
bool "aQuantia devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Set this to y if you have an Ethernet network cards that uses the aQuantia
AQC107/AQC108 chipset.
depends on PCI
depends on X86_64 || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
depends on MACSEC || MACSEC=n
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the support for the aQuantia AQtion(tm) Ethernet card.
endif # NET_VENDOR_AQUANTIA
config NET_VENDOR_ARC
bool "ARC devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select ARC_EMAC_CORE
depends on OF_IRQ && OF_NET
depends on ARC || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
On some legacy ARC (Synopsys) FPGA boards such as ARCAngel4/ML50x
non-standard on-chip ethernet device ARC EMAC 10/100 is used.
Say Y here if you have such a board. If unsure, say N.
select ARC_EMAC_CORE
depends on OF_IRQ && OF_NET && REGULATOR
depends on ARCH_ROCKCHIP || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Rockchip RK3036/RK3066/RK3188 EMAC ethernet controllers.
This selects Rockchip SoC glue layer support for the
emac device driver. This driver is used for RK3036/RK3066/RK3188
bool "Atheros devices"
default y
depends on (PCI || ATH79)
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Atheros L2 fast ethernet adapter.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Atheros/Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet
adapter.
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Atheros L1E gigabit ethernet adapter.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Atheros L1C gigabit ethernet adapter.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
default y
depends on (SSB_POSSIBLE && HAS_DMA) || PCI || BCM63XX || \
SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) chipset belonging to this class,
say Y.
select SSB
select MII
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y
or M here.
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports QLogic bnx2 gigabit Ethernet cards.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
depends on PCI && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
select BNX2
select UIO
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports offload features of QLogic bnx2 gigabit
Ethernet cards.
tristate "SB1250 Gigabit Ethernet support"
depends on SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Gigabit Ethernet interfaces based on the
Broadcom SiByte family of System-On-a-Chip parts. They include
the BCM1120, BCM1125, BCM1125H, BCM1250, BCM1255, BCM1280, BCM1455
depends on PCI
select PHYLIB
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Broadcom Tigon3 based gigabit Ethernet cards.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
bool "Broadcom Tigon3 HWMON support"
default y
depends on TIGON3 && HWMON && !(TIGON3=y && HWMON=m)
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you want to expose the thermal sensor on Tigon3 devices.
config BNX2X
select ZLIB_INFLATE
select LIBCRC32C
select MDIO
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Broadcom NetXtremeII 10 gigabit Ethernet cards.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called bnx2x. This is recommended.
bool "Broadcom 578xx and 57712 SR-IOV support"
depends on BNX2X && PCI_IOV
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This configuration parameter enables Single Root Input Output
Virtualization support in the 578xx and 57712 products. This
allows for virtual function acceleration in virtual environments.
select BGMAC
select PHYLIB
select FIXED_PHY
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports GBit MAC and BCM4706 GBit MAC cores on BCMA bus.
They can be found on BCM47xx SoCs and provide gigabit ethernet.
In case of using this driver on BCM4706 it's also requires to enable
select PHYLIB
select FIXED_PHY
default ARCH_BCM_IPROC
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the Broadcom iProc Gigabit Ethernet
controller through the generic platform interface
select NET_DEVLINK
select PAGE_POOL
select DIMLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E 10/25/40/50 gigabit
Ethernet cards. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here:
the module will be called bnxt_en. This is recommended.
bool "Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E SR-IOV support"
depends on BNXT && PCI_IOV
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This configuration parameter enables Single Root Input Output
Virtualization support in the NetXtreme-C/E products. This
allows for virtual function acceleration in virtual environments.
bool "TC Flower offload support for NetXtreme-C/E"
depends on BNXT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This configuration parameter enables TC Flower packet classifier
offload for eswitch. This option enables SR-IOV switchdev eswitch
offload.
bool "Data Center Bridging (DCB) Support"
default n
depends on BNXT && DCB
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Data Center Bridging (DCB) in the
driver.
bool "Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E HWMON support"
default y
depends on BNXT && HWMON && !(BNXT=y && HWMON=m)
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you want to expose the thermal sensor data on NetXtreme-C/E
devices, via the hwmon sysfs interface.
bool "QLogic BR-series devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config BNA
tristate "QLogic BR-series 1010/1020/1860 10Gb Ethernet Driver support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports QLogic BR-series 1010/1020/1860 10Gb CEE capable
Ethernet cards.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
bool "Cadence devices"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
If unsure, say Y.
tristate "Cadence MACB/GEM support"
depends on HAS_DMA && COMMON_CLK
select PHYLINK
- ---help---
+ help
The Cadence MACB ethernet interface is found on many Atmel AT32 and
AT91 parts. This driver also supports the Cadence GEM (Gigabit
Ethernet MAC found in some ARM SoC devices). Say Y to include
depends on MACB
depends on PTP_1588_CLOCK
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Enable IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) support for MACB.
config MACB_PCI
tristate "Cadence PCI MACB/GEM support"
depends on MACB && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is PCI wrapper for MACB driver.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
config NET_VENDOR_CAVIUM
bool "Cavium ethernet drivers"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you want enable Cavium network support.
If you have a Cavium SoC or network adapter, say Y.
tristate "Thunder Physical function driver"
depends on 64BIT && PCI
select THUNDER_NIC_BGX
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Thunder's NIC physical function.
The NIC provides the controller and DMA engines to
move network traffic to/from the memory. The NIC
tristate "Thunder Virtual function driver"
imply CAVIUM_PTP
depends on 64BIT && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Thunder's NIC virtual function
config THUNDER_NIC_BGX
select PHYLIB
select MDIO_THUNDER if PCI
select THUNDER_NIC_RGX
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports programming and controlling of MAC
interface from NIC physical function driver.
depends on 64BIT && PCI
select PHYLIB
select MDIO_THUNDER if PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports configuring XCV block of RGX interface
present on CN81XX chip.
tristate "Cavium PTP coprocessor as PTP clock"
depends on 64BIT && PCI
depends on PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for the Precision Time Protocol Clocks and
Timestamping coprocessor (PTP) found on Cavium processors.
PTP provides timestamping mechanism that is suitable for use in IEEE 1588
select FW_LOADER
select LIBCRC32C
select NET_DEVLINK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Cavium LiquidIO Intelligent Server Adapters
based on CN66XX, CN68XX and CN23XX chips.
tristate "Cavium LiquidIO VF support"
depends on 64BIT && PCI_MSI
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Cavium LiquidIO Intelligent Server Adapter
based on CN23XX chips.
bool "Chelsio devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MDIO
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Chelsio gigabit and 10-gigabit
Ethernet cards. More information about adapter features and
performance tuning is in
config CHELSIO_T1_1G
bool "Chelsio gigabit Ethernet support"
depends on CHELSIO_T1
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for Chelsio's gigabit Ethernet PCI cards. If you
are using only 10G cards say 'N' here.
depends on PCI && INET
select FW_LOADER
select MDIO
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Chelsio T3-based gigabit and 10Gb Ethernet
adapters.
select FW_LOADER
select MDIO
select ZLIB_DEFLATE
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Chelsio T4, T5 & T6 based gigabit, 10Gb Ethernet
adapter and T5/T6 based 40Gb and T6 based 25Gb, 50Gb and 100Gb
Ethernet adapters.
bool "Data Center Bridging (DCB) Support for Chelsio T4/T5/T6 cards"
default n
depends on CHELSIO_T4 && DCB
- ---help---
+ help
Enable DCB support through rtNetlink interface.
Say Y here if you want to enable Data Center Bridging (DCB) support
in the driver.
bool "Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Support for Chelsio T5 cards"
default n
depends on CHELSIO_T4 && CHELSIO_T4_DCB && FCOE
- ---help---
+ help
Enable FCoE offload features.
Say Y here if you want to enable Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support
in the driver.
config CHELSIO_T4VF
tristate "Chelsio Communications T4/T5/T6 Virtual Function Ethernet support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Chelsio T4, T5 & T6 based gigabit, 10Gb Ethernet
adapters and T5/T6 based 40Gb and T6 based 25Gb, 50Gb and 100Gb
Ethernet adapters with PCI-E SR-IOV Virtual Functions.
config CHELSIO_LIB
tristate
- ---help---
+ help
Common library for Chelsio drivers.
endif # NET_VENDOR_CHELSIO
bool "Cirrus devices"
default y
depends on ISA || EISA || ARM || MAC
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "CS89x0 support"
depends on ISA || EISA || ARM
depends on !PPC32
- ---help---
+ help
Support for CS89x0 chipset based Ethernet cards. If you have a
network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read the file
<file:Documentation/networking/device_drivers/cirrus/cs89x0.rst>.
config MAC89x0
tristate "Macintosh CS89x0 based ethernet cards"
depends on MAC
- ---help---
+ help
Support for CS89x0 chipset based Ethernet cards. If you have a
Nubus or LC-PDS network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y here.
bool "Cisco devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config ENIC
tristate "Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC Support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the support for the Cisco VIC Ethernet card.
config NET_VENDOR_CORTINA
bool "Cortina Gemini devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y
and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
depends on HAS_IOMEM
select PHYLIB
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports StorLink SL351x (Gemini) dual Gigabit Ethernet.
endif # NET_VENDOR_CORTINA
depends on ARM || MIPS || COLDFIRE || NIOS2
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
Support for DM9000 chipset.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
config DM9000_FORCE_SIMPLE_PHY_POLL
bool "Force simple NSR based PHY polling"
depends on DM9000
- ---help---
+ help
This configuration forces the DM9000 to use the NSR's LinkStatus
bit to determine if the link is up or down instead of the more
costly MII PHY reads. Note, this will not work if the chip is
bool "Digital Equipment devices"
default y
depends on PCI || EISA || CARDBUS
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config NET_TULIP
bool "DEC - Tulip devices"
depends on (PCI || EISA || CARDBUS)
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the "Tulip" family of EISA/PCI network cards.
if NET_TULIP
tristate "Early DECchip Tulip (dc2104x) PCI support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is developed for the SMC EtherPower series Ethernet
cards and also works with cards based on the DECchip
21040 (Tulip series) chips. Some LinkSys PCI cards are
depends on DE2104X
range 0 31
default 0
- ---help---
+ help
Setting this value allows to align ring buffer descriptors into their
own cache lines. Value of 4 corresponds to the typical 32 byte line
(the descriptor is 16 bytes). This is necessary on systems that lack
tristate "DECchip Tulip (dc2114x) PCI support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is developed for the SMC EtherPower series Ethernet
cards and also works with cards based on the DECchip
21140 (Tulip series) chips. Some LinkSys PCI cards are
config TULIP_MWI
bool "New bus configuration"
depends on TULIP
- ---help---
+ help
This configures your Tulip card specifically for the card and
system cache line size type you are using.
config TULIP_MMIO
bool "Use PCI shared mem for NIC registers"
depends on TULIP
- ---help---
+ help
Use PCI shared memory for the NIC registers, rather than going through
the Tulip's PIO (programmed I/O ports). Faster, but could produce
obscure bugs if your mainboard has memory controller timing issues.
config TULIP_NAPI
bool "Use RX polling (NAPI)"
depends on TULIP
- ---help---
+ help
NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load
when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is
still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default.
config TULIP_NAPI_HW_MITIGATION
bool "Use Interrupt Mitigation"
depends on TULIP_NAPI
- ---help---
+ help
Use HW to reduce RX interrupts. Not strictly necessary since NAPI
reduces RX interrupts by itself. Interrupt mitigation reduces RX
interrupts even at low levels of traffic at the cost of a small
depends on (PCI || EISA)
depends on VIRT_TO_BUS || ALPHA || PPC || SPARC
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This is support for the DIGITAL series of PCI/EISA Ethernet cards.
These include the DE425, DE434, DE435, DE450 and DE500 models. If
you have a network card of this type, say Y. More specific
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the Winbond W89c840 chip. It also works with
the TX9882 chip on the Compex RL100-ATX board.
More specific information and updates are available from
tristate "Davicom DM910x/DM980x support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for DM9102(A)/DM9132/DM9801 compatible PCI cards from
Davicom (<http://www.davicom.com.tw/>). If you have such a network
(Ethernet) card, say Y. Some information is contained in the file
tristate "ULi M526x controller support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for ULi M5261/M5263 10/100M Ethernet Controller
(<http://www.nvidia.com/page/uli_drivers.html>).
config PCMCIA_XIRCOM
tristate "Xircom CardBus support"
depends on CARDBUS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the Digital "Tulip" Ethernet CardBus adapters.
It should work with most DEC 21*4*-based chips/ethercards, as well
as with work-alike chips from Lite-On (PNIC) and Macronix (MXIC) and
bool "D-Link devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "DL2000/TC902x/IP1000A-based Gigabit Ethernet support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports DL2000/TC902x/IP1000A-based Gigabit ethernet cards,
which includes
D-Link DGE-550T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the Sundance "Alta" chip.
More specific information and updates are available from
<http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html>.
config SUNDANCE_MMIO
bool "Use MMIO instead of PIO"
depends on SUNDANCE
- ---help---
+ help
Enable memory-mapped I/O for interaction with Sundance NIC registers.
Do NOT enable this by default, PIO (enabled when MMIO is disabled)
is known to solve bugs on certain chips.
bool "Emulex devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config NET_VENDOR_EZCHIP
bool "EZchip devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) device belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "EZchip NPS management enet support"
depends on OF_IRQ && OF_NET
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
Simple LAN device for debug or management purposes.
Device supports interrupts for RX and TX(completion).
Device does not have DMA ability.
bool "Faraday devices"
default y
depends on ARM || NDS32 || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on ARM || NDS32 || COMPILE_TEST
depends on !64BIT || BROKEN
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the FTMAC100 10/100 Ethernet controller
from Faraday. It is used on Faraday A320, Andes AG101 and some
other ARM/NDS32 SoC's.
depends on !64BIT || BROKEN
select PHYLIB
select MDIO_ASPEED if MACH_ASPEED_G6
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the FTGMAC100 Gigabit Ethernet controller
from Faraday. It is used on Faraday A369, Andes AG102 and some
other ARM/NDS32 SoC's.
M523x || M527x || M5272 || M528x || M520x || M532x || \
ARCH_MXC || ARCH_MXS || (PPC_MPC52xx && PPC_BESTCOMM) || \
ARCH_LAYERSCAPE || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
default ARCH_MXC || SOC_IMX28 if ARM
select PHYLIB
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the built-in 10/100 Fast ethernet
controller on some Motorola ColdFire and Freescale i.MX processors.
select CRC32
select PHYLIB
select PPC_BESTCOMM_FEC
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for the MPC5200's on-chip
Fast Ethernet Controller
If compiled as module, it will be called fec_mpc52xx.
bool "FEC MPC52xx MDIO bus driver"
depends on FEC_MPC52xx
default y
- ---help---
+ help
The MPC5200's FEC can connect to the Ethernet either with
an external MII PHY chip or 10 Mbps 7-wire interface
(Motorola? industry standard).
config FSL_PQ_MDIO
tristate "Freescale PQ MDIO"
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the MDIO bus used by the gianfar and UCC drivers.
config FSL_XGMAC_MDIO
select PHYLIB
depends on OF
select OF_MDIO
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the MDIO bus on the Fman 10G Ethernet MACs, and
on the FMan mEMAC (which supports both Clauses 22 and 45)
select FSL_PQ_MDIO
select PHYLIB
select FIXED_PHY
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet mode of the QUICC Engine,
which is available on some Freescale SOCs.
select PHYLIB
select FIXED_PHY
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Gigabit TSEC on the MPC83xx, MPC85xx,
and MPC86xx family of chips, the eTSEC on LS1021A and the FEC
on the 8540.
select PHYLIB
select FIXED_PHY
select FSL_FMAN_MAC
- ---help---
+ help
Data Path Acceleration Architecture Ethernet driver,
supporting the Freescale QorIQ chips.
Depends on Freescale Buffer Manager and Queue Manager
bool "Fujitsu devices"
default y
depends on PCMCIA
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Fujitsu FMV-J18x PCMCIA support"
depends on PCMCIA
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you intend to attach a Fujitsu FMV-J18x or compatible
PCMCIA (PC-card) Ethernet card to your computer.
default y
depends on OF || ACPI
depends on ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select MARVELL_PHY
select MFD_SYSCON
select HNS_MDIO
- ---help---
+ help
If you wish to compile a kernel for a hardware with hisilicon p04 SoC and
want to use the internal ethernet then you should answer Y to this.
config HNS_MDIO
tristate
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the HNS MDIO support. It is needed by HNS_DSAF to access
the PHY
config HNS
tristate
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the framework support for Hisilicon Network Subsystem. It
is needed by any driver which provides HNS acceleration engine or make
use of the engine
tristate "Hisilicon HNS DSAF device Support"
select HNS
select HNS_MDIO
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the DSAF (Distributed System Area Frabric) network
acceleration engine support. The engine is used in Hisilicon hip05,
Hi1610 and further ICT SoC
tristate "Hisilicon HNS Ethernet Device Support"
select PHYLIB
select HNS
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the general ethernet driver for HNS. This module make
use of any HNS AE driver, such as HNS_DSAF
config HNS3
tristate "Hisilicon Network Subsystem Support HNS3 (Framework)"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the framework support for Hisilicon Network Subsystem 3.
This layer facilitates clients like ENET, RoCE and user-space ethernet
drivers(like ODP)to register with HNAE devices and their associated
tristate "Hisilicon HNS3 HCLGE Acceleration Engine & Compatibility Layer Support"
default m
depends on PCI_MSI
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the HNS3_HCLGE network acceleration engine & its hardware
compatibility layer. The engine would be used in Hisilicon hip08 family of
SoCs and further upcoming SoCs.
bool "Hisilicon HNS3 Data Center Bridge Support"
default n
depends on HNS3_HCLGE && DCB
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Data Center Bridging (DCB) in the HNS3 driver.
If unsure, say N.
tristate "Hisilicon HNS3VF Acceleration Engine & Compatibility Layer Support"
depends on PCI_MSI
depends on HNS3_HCLGE
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the HNS3 VF drivers network acceleration engine & its hardware
compatibility layer. The engine would be used in Hisilicon hip08 family of
SoCs and further upcoming SoCs.
default m
depends on 64BIT && PCI
depends on INET
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the Ethernet Driver for Hisilicon Network Subsystem 3 for hip08
family of SoCs. This module depends upon HNAE3 driver to access the HNAE3
devices and their associated operations.
config NET_VENDOR_HUAWEI
bool "Huawei devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all
config HINIC
tristate "Huawei Intelligent PCIE Network Interface Card"
depends on (PCI_MSI && (X86 || ARM64))
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports HiNIC PCIE Ethernet cards.
To compile this driver as part of the kernel, choose Y here.
If unsure, choose N.
bool "Intel (82586/82593/82596) devices"
default y
depends on NET_VENDOR_INTEL
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question does not directly affect the
config ARM_ETHER1
tristate "Acorn Ether1 support"
depends on ARM && ARCH_ACORN
- ---help---
+ help
If you have an Acorn system with one of these (AKA25) network cards,
you should say Y to this option if you wish to use it with Linux.
config BVME6000_NET
tristate "BVME6000 Ethernet support"
depends on BVME6000
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the Ethernet interface on BVME4000 and
BVME6000 VME boards. Say Y here to include the driver for this chip
in your kernel.
config LASI_82596
tristate "Lasi ethernet"
depends on GSC
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to support the builtin Intel 82596 ethernet controller
found in Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC machines with 10Mbit ethernet.
config MVME16x_NET
tristate "MVME16x Ethernet support"
depends on MVME16x
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the Ethernet interface on the Motorola
MVME162, 166, 167, 172 and 177 boards. Say Y here to include the
driver for this chip in your kernel.
config SNI_82596
tristate "SNI RM ethernet"
depends on SNI_RM
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to support the on-board Intel 82596 ethernet controller
built into SNI RM machines.
config SUN3_82586
bool "Sun3 on-board Intel 82586 support"
depends on SUN3
- ---help---
+ help
This driver enables support for the on-board Intel 82586 based
Ethernet adapter found on Sun 3/1xx and 3/2xx motherboards. Note
that this driver does not support 82586-based adapters on additional
bool "IBM devices"
default y
depends on PPC_PSERIES || PPC_DCR || (IBMEBUS && SPARSEMEM)
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config IBMVETH
tristate "IBM LAN Virtual Ethernet support"
depends on PPC_PSERIES
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports virtual ethernet adapters on newer IBM iSeries
and pSeries systems.
config EHEA
tristate "eHEA Ethernet support"
depends on IBMEBUS && SPARSEMEM
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the IBM pSeries eHEA ethernet adapter.
To compile the driver as a module, choose M here. The module
config IBMVNIC
tristate "IBM Virtual NIC support"
depends on PPC_PSERIES
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Virtual NIC adapters on IBM i and IBM System p
systems.
config NET_VENDOR_INTEL
bool "Intel devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Intel(R) PRO/100+ support"
depends on PCI
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/100 family of adapters.
To verify that your adapter is supported, find the board ID number
on the adapter. Look for a label that has a barcode and a number
config E1000
tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit ethernet family of
adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go
to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide that can be located at:
depends on PCI && (!SPARC32 || BROKEN)
select CRC32
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the PCI-Express Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit
ethernet family of adapters. For PCI or PCI-X e1000 adapters,
use the regular e1000 driver For more information on how to
bool "Support HW cross-timestamp on PCH devices"
default y
depends on E1000E && X86
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to enable hardware supported cross-timestamping on PCH
devices. The cross-timestamp is available through the PTP clock
driver precise cross-timestamp ioctl (PTP_SYS_OFFSET_PRECISE).
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
select I2C
select I2C_ALGOBIT
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Intel(R) 82575/82576 gigabit ethernet family of
adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go
to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide that can be located at:
bool "Intel(R) PCI-Express Gigabit adapters HWMON support"
default y
depends on IGB && HWMON && !(IGB=y && HWMON=m)
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you want to expose thermal sensor data on Intel devices.
Some of our devices contain thermal sensors, both external and internal.
bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
default y
depends on IGB && DCA && !(IGB=y && DCA=m)
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
driver. DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
config IGBVF
tristate "Intel(R) 82576 Virtual Function Ethernet support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Intel(R) 82576 virtual functions. For more
information on how to identify your adapter, go to the Adapter &
Driver ID Guide that can be located at:
config IXGB
tristate "Intel(R) PRO/10GbE support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/10GbE family of adapters for
PCI-X type cards. For PCI-E type cards, use the "ixgbe" driver
instead. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go
select MDIO
select PHYLIB
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express family of
adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go
to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide that can be located at:
bool "Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters HWMON support"
default y
depends on IXGBE && HWMON && !(IXGBE=y && HWMON=m)
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you want to expose the thermal sensor data on some of
our cards, via a hwmon sysfs interface.
bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
default y
depends on IXGBE && DCA && !(IXGBE=y && DCA=m)
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
driver. DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
bool "Data Center Bridging (DCB) Support"
default n
depends on IXGBE && DCB
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Data Center Bridging (DCB) in the
driver.
depends on XFRM_OFFLOAD
default y
select XFRM_ALGO
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for IPSec offload in ixgbe.ko
config IXGBEVF
tristate "Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express Virtual Function Ethernet support"
depends on PCI_MSI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Intel(R) PCI Express virtual functions for the
Intel(R) ixgbe driver. For more information on how to identify your
adapter, go to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide that can be located at:
depends on XFRM_OFFLOAD
default y
select XFRM_ALGO
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for IPSec offload in ixgbevf.ko
config I40E
tristate "Intel(R) Ethernet Controller XL710 Family support"
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Intel(R) Ethernet Controller XL710 Family of
devices. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go
to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide that can be located at:
bool "Data Center Bridging (DCB) Support"
default n
depends on I40E && DCB
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Data Center Bridging (DCB) in the
driver.
tristate "Intel(R) Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function support"
select IAVF
depends on PCI_MSI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports virtual functions for Intel XL710,
X710, X722, XXV710, and all devices advertising support for
Intel Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function devices. For more
default n
depends on PCI_MSI
select NET_DEVLINK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Intel(R) Ethernet Connection E800 Series of
devices. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go
to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide that can be located at:
default n
depends on PCI_MSI
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Intel(R) FM10000 Ethernet Switch Host
Interface. For more information on how to identify your adapter,
go to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide that can be located at:
tristate "Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-LM/I225-V support"
default n
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-LM/I225-V
family of adapters.
bool "Marvell devices"
default y
depends on PCI || CPU_PXA168 || MV64X60 || PPC32 || PLAT_ORION || INET || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on INET
select PHYLIB
select MVMDIO
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the gigabit ethernet MACs in the
Marvell Discovery PPC/MIPS chipset family (MV643XX) and
in the Marvell Orion ARM SoC family.
tristate "Marvell MDIO interface support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the MDIO interface found in the network
interface units of the Marvell EBU SoCs (Kirkwood, Orion5x,
Dove, Armada 370 and Armada XP).
tristate "Marvell Armada 38x/XP network interface BM support"
depends on MVNETA
depends on !64BIT
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports auxiliary block of the network
interface units in the Marvell ARMADA XP and ARMADA 38x SoC
family, which is called buffer manager.
select MVMDIO
select PHYLINK
select PAGE_POOL
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the network interface units in the
Marvell ARMADA XP, ARMADA 370, ARMADA 38x and
ARMADA 37xx SoC family.
depends on ARCH_MVEBU || COMPILE_TEST
select MVMDIO
select PHYLINK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the network interface units in the
Marvell ARMADA 375, 7K and 8K SoCs.
depends on HAS_IOMEM
depends on CPU_PXA168 || ARCH_BERLIN || COMPILE_TEST
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the pxa168 Ethernet ports.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
tristate "Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver support the Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx
and related Gigabit Ethernet adapters. It is a new smaller driver
with better performance and more complete ethtool support.
config SKGE_DEBUG
bool "Debugging interface"
depends on SKGE && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds the ability to dump driver state for debugging.
The file /sys/kernel/debug/skge/ethX displays the state of the internal
transmit and receive rings.
config SKGE_GENESIS
bool "Support for older SysKonnect Genesis boards"
depends on SKGE
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the older and uncommon SysKonnect Genesis
chips, which support MII via an external transceiver, instead of
an internal one. Disabling this option will save some memory
tristate "Marvell Yukon 2 support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the
Marvell Yukon 2 chipset:
Marvell 88E8021/88E8022/88E8035/88E8036/88E8038/88E8050/88E8052/
config SKY2_DEBUG
bool "Debugging interface"
depends on SKY2 && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds the ability to dump driver state for debugging.
The file /sys/kernel/debug/sky2/ethX displays the state of the internal
transmit and receive rings.
bool "Disable caching of dynamic entries in NDC"
depends on OCTEONTX2_AF
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This config option disables caching of dynamic entries such as NIX SQEs
, NPA stack pages etc in NDC. Also locks down NIX SQ/CQ/RQ/RSS and
NPA Aura/Pool contexts.
config NET_VENDOR_MEDIATEK
bool "MediaTek devices"
depends on ARCH_MEDIATEK || SOC_MT7621 || SOC_MT7620
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a Mediatek SoC with ethernet, say Y.
if NET_VENDOR_MEDIATEK
config NET_MEDIATEK_SOC
tristate "MediaTek SoC Gigabit Ethernet support"
select PHYLINK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the gigabit ethernet MACs in the
MediaTek SoC family.
bool "Mellanox devices"
default y
depends on PCI || I2C
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet or RDMA) device belonging to this
class, say Y.
depends on PCI && NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && INET
select MLX4_CORE
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Mellanox Technologies ConnectX Ethernet
devices.
bool "Data Center Bridging (DCB) Support"
default y
depends on MLX4_EN && DCB
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Data Center Bridging (DCB) in the
driver.
If set to N, will not be able to configure QoS and ratelimit attributes.
bool "Verbose debugging output" if (MLX4_CORE && EXPERT)
depends on MLX4_CORE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option causes debugging code to be compiled into the
mlx4_core driver. The output can be turned on via the
debug_level module parameter (which can also be set after
bool "Support for old gen2 Mellanox PCI IDs" if (MLX4_CORE)
depends on MLX4_CORE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use old gen2 Mellanox devices in the
driver.
depends on PTP_1588_CLOCK || !PTP_1588_CLOCK
depends on PCI_HYPERV_INTERFACE || !PCI_HYPERV_INTERFACE
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Core driver for low level functionality of the ConnectX-4 and
Connect-IB cards by Mellanox Technologies.
bool "Mellanox Technologies Innova support"
depends on MLX5_CORE
select MLX5_ACCEL
- ---help---
+ help
Build support for the Innova family of network cards by Mellanox
Technologies. Innova network cards are comprised of a ConnectX chip
and an FPGA chip on one board. If you select this option, the
select PAGE_POOL
select DIMLIB
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Ethernet support in Mellanox Technologies ConnectX-4 NIC.
config MLX5_EN_ARFS
bool "Mellanox MLX5 ethernet accelerated receive flow steering (ARFS) support"
depends on MLX5_CORE_EN && RFS_ACCEL
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Mellanox MLX5 ethernet hardware-accelerated receive flow steering support,
Enables ethernet netdevice arfs support and ntuple filtering.
bool "Mellanox MLX5 ethernet rx nfc flow steering support"
depends on MLX5_CORE_EN
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Mellanox MLX5 ethernet rx nfc flow steering support
Enables ethtool receive network flow classification, which allows user defined
flow rules to direct traffic into arbitrary rx queue via ethtool set/get_rxnfc
bool "Mellanox Technologies MLX5 MPFS support"
depends on MLX5_CORE_EN
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Mellanox Technologies Ethernet Multi-Physical Function Switch (MPFS)
support in ConnectX NIC. MPFs is required for when multi-PF configuration
is enabled to allow passing user configured unicast MAC addresses to the
bool "Mellanox Technologies MLX5 SRIOV E-Switch support"
depends on MLX5_CORE_EN && NET_SWITCHDEV
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Mellanox Technologies Ethernet SRIOV E-Switch support in ConnectX NIC.
E-Switch provides internal SRIOV packet steering and switching for the
enabled VFs and PF in two available modes:
bool "Data Center Bridging (DCB) Support"
default y
depends on MLX5_CORE_EN && DCB
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Data Center Bridging (DCB) in the
driver.
If set to N, will not be able to configure QoS and ratelimit attributes.
bool "Mellanox 5th generation network adapters (connectX series) IPoIB offloads support"
depends on MLX5_CORE_EN
default n
- ---help---
+ help
MLX5 IPoIB offloads & acceleration support.
config MLX5_FPGA_IPSEC
config MLXFW
tristate "Mellanox Technologies firmware flash module"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Mellanox Technologies Firmware
flashing common logic.
config MLXSW_CORE
tristate "Mellanox Technologies Switch ASICs support"
select NET_DEVLINK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Mellanox Technologies Switch ASICs family.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
depends on MLXSW_CORE && HWMON
depends on !(MLXSW_CORE=y && HWMON=m)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to expose HWMON interface on mlxsw devices.
config MLXSW_CORE_THERMAL
bool "Thermal zone support for Mellanox Technologies Switch ASICs"
depends on MLXSW_CORE && THERMAL
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to automatically control fans speed according
ambient temperature reported by ASIC.
tristate "PCI bus implementation for Mellanox Technologies Switch ASICs"
depends on PCI && HAS_IOMEM && MLXSW_CORE
default m
- ---help---
+ help
This is PCI bus implementation for Mellanox Technologies Switch ASICs.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
tristate "I2C bus implementation for Mellanox Technologies Switch ASICs"
depends on I2C && MLXSW_CORE
default m
- ---help---
+ help
This is I2C bus implementation for Mellanox Technologies Switch ASICs.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
tristate "Mellanox Technologies SwitchIB and SwitchIB-2 support"
depends on MLXSW_CORE && MLXSW_PCI && NET_SWITCHDEV
default m
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Mellanox Technologies SwitchIB and SwitchIB-2
Infiniband Switch ASICs.
tristate "Mellanox Technologies SwitchX-2 support"
depends on MLXSW_CORE && MLXSW_PCI && NET_SWITCHDEV
default m
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Mellanox Technologies SwitchX-2 Ethernet
Switch ASICs.
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
select NET_PTP_CLASSIFY if PTP_1588_CLOCK
default m
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Mellanox Technologies
Spectrum/Spectrum-2/Spectrum-3 Ethernet Switch ASICs.
bool "Data Center Bridging (DCB) support"
depends on MLXSW_SPECTRUM && DCB
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Data Center Bridging (DCB) in the
driver.
tristate "Mellanox Technologies minimal I2C support"
depends on MLXSW_CORE && MLXSW_I2C
default m
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports I2C access for Mellanox Technologies Switch
ASICs.
bool "Micrel devices"
default y
depends on (HAS_IOMEM && DMA_ENGINE) || SPI || PCI || HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config KS8842
tristate "Micrel KSZ8841/42 with generic bus interface"
depends on HAS_IOMEM && DMA_ENGINE
- ---help---
+ help
This platform driver is for KSZ8841(1-port) / KS8842(2-port)
ethernet switch chip (managed, VLAN, QoS) from Micrel or
Timberdale(FPGA).
select MII
select CRC32
select EEPROM_93CX6
- ---help---
+ help
SPI driver for Micrel KS8851 SPI attached network chip.
config KS8851_MLL
select MII
select CRC32
select EEPROM_93CX6
- ---help---
+ help
This platform driver is for Micrel KS8851 Address/data bus
multiplexed network chip.
depends on PCI
select MII
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This PCI driver is for Micrel KSZ8841/KSZ8842 PCI Ethernet chip.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
config NET_VENDOR_MICROCHIP
bool "Microchip devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "ENC28J60 support"
depends on SPI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Microchip EN28J60 ethernet chip.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be
config ENC28J60_WRITEVERIFY
bool "Enable write verify"
depends on ENC28J60
- ---help---
+ help
Enable the verify after the buffer write useful for debugging purpose.
If unsure, say N.
config ENCX24J600
tristate "ENCX24J600 support"
depends on SPI
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Microchip ENC424J600/624J600 ethernet chip.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be
depends on PCI
select PHYLIB
select CRC16
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Microchip LAN743x PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet chip
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be
bool "MOXA ART devices"
default y
depends on (ARM && ARCH_MOXART)
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "MOXART Ethernet support"
depends on ARM && ARCH_MOXART
select NET_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
If you wish to compile a kernel for a hardware with MOXA ART SoC and
want to use the internal ethernet then you should answer Y to this.
bool "Myricom devices"
default y
depends on PCI && INET
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on PCI && INET
select FW_LOADER
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Myricom Myri-10G Dual Protocol interface in
Ethernet mode. If the eeprom on your board is not recent enough,
you will need a newer firmware image.
bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
default y
depends on MYRI10GE && DCA && !(MYRI10GE=y && DCA=m)
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
driver. DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
config NET_VENDOR_NATSEMI
bool "National Semiconductor devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config MACSONIC
tristate "Macintosh SONIC based ethernet (onboard, NuBus, LC, CS)"
depends on MAC
- ---help---
+ help
Support for NatSemi SONIC based Ethernet devices. This includes
the onboard Ethernet in many Quadras as well as some LC-PDS,
a few Nubus and all known Comm Slot Ethernet cards. If you have
config MIPS_JAZZ_SONIC
tristate "MIPS JAZZ onboard SONIC Ethernet support"
depends on MACH_JAZZ
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the onboard card of MIPS Magnum 4000,
Acer PICA, Olivetti M700-10 and a few other identical OEM systems.
tristate "National Semiconductor DP8381x series PCI Ethernet support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the National Semiconductor DP83810 series,
which is used in cards from PureData, NetGear, Linksys
and others, including the 83815 chip.
config NS83820
tristate "National Semiconductor DP83820 support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the National Semiconductor DP83820 series
of gigabit ethernet MACs. Cards using this chipset include
the D-Link DGE-500T, PureData's PDP8023Z-TG, SMC's SMC9462TX,
config XTENSA_XT2000_SONIC
tristate "Xtensa XT2000 onboard SONIC Ethernet support"
depends on XTENSA_PLATFORM_XT2000
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the onboard card of the Xtensa XT2000 board.
endif # NET_VENDOR_NATSEMI
bool "Neterion (Exar) devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config S2IO
tristate "Neterion (Exar) Xframe 10Gb Ethernet Adapter"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Exar Corp's Xframe Series 10Gb Ethernet Adapters.
These were originally released from S2IO, which renamed itself
Neterion. So, the adapters might be labeled as either one, depending
config VXGE
tristate "Neterion (Exar) X3100 Series 10GbE PCIe Server Adapter"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Exar Corp's X3100 Series 10 GbE PCIe
I/O Virtualized Server Adapter. These were originally released from
Neterion, which was later acquired by Exar. So, the adapters might be
bool "Enabling All Debug trace statements in driver"
default n
depends on VXGE
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to enabling all the debug trace statements in
the vxge driver. By default only few debug trace statements are
enabled.
config NET_VENDOR_NETRONOME
bool "Netronome(R) devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a Netronome(R) network (Ethernet) card or device, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on VXLAN || VXLAN=n
depends on TLS && TLS_DEVICE || TLS_DEVICE=n
select NET_DEVLINK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Netronome(R) NFP4000/NFP6000 based
cards working as a advanced Ethernet NIC. It works with both
SR-IOV physical and virtual functions.
depends on NET_SWITCHDEV
depends on IPV6!=m || NFP=m
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Enable driver support for TC Flower offload on NFP4000 and NFP6000.
Say Y, if you are planning to make use of TC Flower offload
either directly, with Open vSwitch, or any other way. Note that
config NFP_DEBUG
bool "Debug support for Netronome(R) NFP4000/NFP6000 NIC drivers"
depends on NFP
- ---help---
+ help
Enable extra sanity checks and debugfs support in
Netronome(R) NFP4000/NFP6000 NIC drivers.
Note: selecting this option may adversely impact
bool "NVIDIA devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config FORCEDETH
tristate "nForce Ethernet support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y here.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
bool "OKI Semiconductor devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select MII
select PTP_1588_CLOCK_PCH
select NET_PTP_CLASSIFY
- ---help---
+ help
This is a gigabit ethernet driver for EG20T PCH.
EG20T PCH is the platform controller hub that is used in Intel's
general embedded platform. EG20T PCH has Gigabit Ethernet interface.
bool "Packet Engines devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Packet Engines Hamachi GNIC-II support"
depends on PCI
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a Gigabit Ethernet card of this type, say Y here.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be
tristate "Packet Engines Yellowfin Gigabit-NIC support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Packet Engines G-NIC PCI Gigabit Ethernet
adapter or the SYM53C885 Ethernet controller. The Gigabit adapter is
used by the Beowulf Linux cluster project. See
bool "PA Semi devices"
default y
depends on PPC_PASEMI && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "PA Semi 1/10Gbit MAC"
depends on PPC_PASEMI && PCI
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the on-chip 1/10Gbit Ethernet controller on
PA Semi's PWRficient line of chips.
bool "QLogic devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config QLA3XXX
tristate "QLogic QLA3XXX Network Driver Support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports QLogic ISP3XXX gigabit Ethernet cards.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
tristate "QLOGIC QLCNIC 1/10Gb Converged Ethernet NIC Support"
depends on PCI
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports QLogic QLE8240 and QLE8242 Converged Ethernet
devices.
bool "QLOGIC QLCNIC 83XX family SR-IOV Support"
depends on QLCNIC && PCI_IOV
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This configuration parameter enables Single Root Input Output
Virtualization support for QLE83XX Converged Ethernet devices.
This allows for virtual function acceleration in virtualized
bool "QLOGIC QLCNIC 82XX and 83XX family DCB Support"
depends on QLCNIC && DCB
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This configuration parameter enables DCB support in QLE83XX
and QLE82XX Converged Ethernet devices. This allows for DCB
get operations support through rtNetlink interface. Only CEE
bool "QLOGIC QLCNIC 82XX and 83XX family HWMON support"
depends on QLCNIC && HWMON && !(QLCNIC=y && HWMON=m)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This configuration parameter can be used to read the
board temperature in Converged Ethernet devices
supported by qlcnic.
tristate "NetXen Multi port (1/10) Gigabit Ethernet NIC"
depends on PCI
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the support for NetXen's Gigabit Ethernet card.
config QED
select ZLIB_INFLATE
select CRC8
select NET_DEVLINK
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the support for ...
config QED_LL2
bool "QLogic QED 25/40/100Gb SR-IOV support"
depends on QED && PCI_IOV
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This configuration parameter enables Single Root Input Output
Virtualization support for QED devices.
This allows for virtual function acceleration in virtualized
tristate "QLogic QED 25/40/100Gb Ethernet NIC"
depends on QED
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the support for ...
config QED_RDMA
config NET_VENDOR_QUALCOMM
bool "Qualcomm devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Qualcomm Atheros QCA7000 SPI support"
select QCA7000
depends on SPI_MASTER && OF
- ---help---
+ help
This SPI protocol driver supports the Qualcomm Atheros QCA7000.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
tristate "Qualcomm Atheros QCA7000 UART support"
select QCA7000
depends on SERIAL_DEV_BUS && OF
- ---help---
+ help
This UART protocol driver supports the Qualcomm Atheros QCA7000.
Currently the driver assumes these device UART settings:
depends on HAS_DMA && HAS_IOMEM
select CRC32
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Gigabit
Ethernet Media Access Controller (EMAC). The controller
supports IEEE 802.3-2002, half-duplex mode at 10/100 Mb/s,
tristate "RmNet MAP driver"
default n
select GRO_CELLS
- ---help---
+ help
If you select this, you will enable the RMNET module which is used
for handling data in the multiplexing and aggregation protocol (MAP)
format in the embedded data path. RMNET devices can be attached to
bool "RDC devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select CRC32
select MII
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the R6040 Fast Ethernet MACs found in the
the RDC R-321x System-on-chips.
bool "Realtek devices"
default y
depends on PCI || (PARPORT && X86)
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "AT-LAN-TEC/RealTek pocket adapter support"
depends on PARPORT && X86
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel
port. Read the file <file:drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/atp.c>
if you want to use this. If you intend to use this driver, you
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on
the RTL8139C+ chips. If you have one of those, say Y here.
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on
the RTL 8129/8130/8139 chips. If you have one of those, say Y here.
bool "Use PIO instead of MMIO"
default y
depends on 8139TOO
- ---help---
+ help
This instructs the driver to use programmed I/O ports (PIO) instead
of PCI shared memory (MMIO). This can possibly solve some problems
in case your mainboard has memory consistency issues. If unsure,
config 8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER
bool "Support for uncommon RTL-8139 rev. K (automatic channel equalization)"
depends on 8139TOO
- ---help---
+ help
This implements a function which might come in handy in case you
are using low quality on long cabling. It is required for RealTek
RTL-8139 revision K boards, and totally unused otherwise. It tries
config 8139TOO_8129
bool "Support for older RTL-8129/8130 boards"
depends on 8139TOO
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the older and uncommon RTL-8129 and
RTL-8130 chips, which support MII via an external transceiver,
instead of an internal one. Disabling this option will save some
config 8139_OLD_RX_RESET
bool "Use older RX-reset method"
depends on 8139TOO
- ---help---
+ help
The 8139too driver was recently updated to contain a more rapid
reset sequence, in the face of severe receive errors. This "new"
RX-reset method should be adequate for all boards. But if you
select CRC32
select PHYLIB
select REALTEK_PHY
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Realtek Ethernet adapter belonging to
the following families:
RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet
config NET_VENDOR_RENESAS
bool "Renesas devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select MII
select MDIO_BITBANG
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
Renesas SuperH Ethernet device driver.
This driver supporting CPUs are:
- SH7619, SH7710, SH7712, SH7724, SH7734, SH7763, SH7757,
config NET_VENDOR_ROCKER
bool "Rocker devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network device belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config ROCKER
tristate "Rocker switch driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on PCI && NET_SWITCHDEV && BRIDGE
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Rocker switch device.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
config NET_VENDOR_SAMSUNG
bool "Samsung Ethernet devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) chipset belonging to this class,
say Y.
select PHYLIB
select CRC32
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the SXGBE 10G Ethernet IP block found on
Samsung platforms.
bool "SEEQ devices"
default y
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config ARM_ETHER3
tristate "Acorn/ANT Ether3 support"
depends on ARM && ARCH_ACORN
- ---help---
+ help
If you have an Acorn system with one of these network cards, you
should say Y to this option if you wish to use it with Linux.
config SGISEEQ
tristate "SGI Seeq ethernet controller support"
depends on SGI_HAS_SEEQ
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have an Seeq based Ethernet network card. This is
used in many Silicon Graphics machines.
config NET_VENDOR_SOLARFLARE
bool "Solarflare devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select MDIO
select CRC32
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports 10/40-gigabit Ethernet cards based on
the Solarflare SFC9000-family and SFC9100-family controllers.
bool "Solarflare SFC9000/SFC9100-family MTD support"
depends on SFC && MTD && !(SFC=y && MTD=m)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This exposes the on-board flash and/or EEPROM as MTD devices
(e.g. /dev/mtd1). This is required to update the firmware or
the boot configuration under Linux.
bool "Solarflare SFC9000/SFC9100-family hwmon support"
depends on SFC && HWMON && !(SFC=y && HWMON=m)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This exposes the on-board firmware-managed sensors as a
hardware monitor device.
config SFC_SRIOV
bool "Solarflare SFC9000-family SR-IOV support"
depends on SFC && PCI_IOV
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the SFC9000 I/O Virtualization
features, allowing accelerated network performance in
virtualized environments.
bool "Solarflare SFC9000/SFC9100-family MCDI logging support"
depends on SFC
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for tracing of MCDI (Management-Controller-to-
Driver-Interface) commands and responses, allowing debugging of
driver/firmware interaction. The tracing is actually enabled by
select CRC32
select I2C
select I2C_ALGOBIT
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports 10-gigabit Ethernet cards based on
the Solarflare SFC4000 controller.
bool "Solarflare SFC4000 MTD support"
depends on SFC_FALCON && MTD && !(SFC_FALCON=y && MTD=m)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This exposes the on-board flash and/or EEPROM as MTD devices
(e.g. /dev/mtd1). This is required to update the boot
configuration under Linux.
bool "SGI devices"
default y
depends on (PCI && SGI_MFD_IOC3) || SGI_IP32
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select CRC16
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y here.
config SGI_O2MACE_ETH
bool "Silan devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Silan SC92031 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on
the Silan SC92031 chip (sometimes also called Rsltek 8139D). If you
have one of these, say Y here.
bool "Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on
the SiS 900 and SiS 7016 chips. The SiS 900 core is also embedded in
SiS 630 and SiS 540 chipsets.
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a SiS 190 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter or
a SiS 191 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter. Both are expected to
appear in lan on motherboard designs which are based on SiS 965
depends on ARM || ARM64 || ATARI_ETHERNAT || COLDFIRE || \
ISA || MAC || MIPS || NIOS2 || PCI || \
PCMCIA || SUPERH || XTENSA || H8300
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "SMC 9194 support"
depends on ISA
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This is support for the SMC9xxx based Ethernet cards. Choose this
option if you have a DELL laptop with the docking station, or
another SMC9192/9194 based chipset. Say Y if you want it compiled
depends on !OF || GPIOLIB
depends on ARM || ARM64 || ATARI_ETHERNAT || COLDFIRE || \
MIPS || NIOS2 || SUPERH || XTENSA || H8300
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for SMC's 91x series of Ethernet chipsets,
including the SMC91C94 and the SMC91C111. Say Y if you want it
compiled into the kernel, and read the file
depends on PCMCIA
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you intend to attach an SMC 91Cxx compatible PCMCIA
(PC-card) Ethernet or Fast Ethernet card to your computer.
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for the SMC EtherPower II 9432 PCI Ethernet NIC,
which is based on the SMC83c17x (EPIC/100).
More specific information and updates are available from
select CRC32
select MII
depends on (ARM || SUPERH)
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for SMSC's LAN911x series of Ethernet chipsets
including the new LAN9115, LAN9116, LAN9117, and LAN9118.
Say Y here if you want it compiled into the kernel.
select CRC32
select MII
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want support for SMSC LAN911x and LAN921x families
of ethernet controllers.
config SMSC911X_ARCH_HOOKS
def_bool n
depends on SMSC911X
- ---help---
+ help
If the arch enables this, it allows the arch to implement various
hooks for more comprehensive interrupt control and also to override
the source of the MAC address.
select CRC32
select PHYLIB
select SMSC_PHY
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for SMSC's LAN9420 PCI ethernet adapter.
Say Y here if you want it compiled into the kernel.
config NET_VENDOR_SOCIONEXT
bool "Socionext ethernet drivers"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Option to select ethernet drivers for Socionext platforms.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on HAS_IOMEM
select MFD_SYSCON
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for gigabit ethernet MACs, called AVE, in the
Socionext UniPhier family.
select PHYLIB
select PAGE_POOL
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
Enable to add support for the SocioNext NetSec Gigabit Ethernet
controller + PHY, as found on the Synquacer SC2A11 SoC
bool "STMicroelectronics devices"
default y
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card based on Synopsys Ethernet IP
Cores, say Y.
select CRC32
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
select RESET_CONTROLLER
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the Ethernet IPs built around a
Synopsys IP Core.
depends on INET
depends on STMMAC_ETH
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for STMMAC Selftests using ethtool. Enable this
feature if you are facing problems with your HW and submit the test
results to the netdev Mailing List.
depends on STMMAC_ETH
select MFD_SYSCON
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the platform specific bus support for the stmmac driver.
This is the driver used on several SoCs:
STi, Allwinner, Amlogic Meson, Altera SOCFPGA.
config DWMAC_GENERIC
tristate "Generic driver for DWMAC"
default STMMAC_PLATFORM
- ---help---
+ help
Generic DWMAC driver for platforms that don't require any
platform specific code to function or is using platform
data for setup.
default ARCH_LPC18XX
depends on OF && (ARCH_LPC18XX || COMPILE_TEST)
select MFD_SYSCON
- ---help---
+ help
Support for NXP LPC18xx/43xx DWMAC Ethernet.
config DWMAC_MEDIATEK
default ARCH_STI
depends on OF && (ARCH_STI || COMPILE_TEST)
select MFD_SYSCON
- ---help---
+ help
Support for ethernet controller on STi SOCs.
This selects STi SoC glue layer support for the stmmac
default ARCH_STM32
depends on OF && HAS_IOMEM && (ARCH_STM32 || COMPILE_TEST)
select MFD_SYSCON
- ---help---
+ help
Support for ethernet controller on STM32 SOCs.
This selects STM32 SoC glue layer support for the stmmac
tristate "Allwinner GMAC support"
default ARCH_SUNXI
depends on OF && (ARCH_SUNXI || COMPILE_TEST)
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Allwinner A20/A31 GMAC ethernet controllers.
This selects Allwinner SoC glue layer support for the
default ARCH_SUNXI
depends on OF && (ARCH_SUNXI || COMPILE_TEST)
select MDIO_BUS_MUX
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Allwinner H3 A83T A64 EMAC ethernet controllers.
This selects Allwinner SoC glue layer support for the
default ARCH_MXC
depends on OF && (ARCH_MXC || COMPILE_TEST)
select MFD_SYSCON
- ---help---
+ help
Support for ethernet controller on NXP i.MX8 SOCs.
This selects NXP SoC glue layer support for the stmmac
default X86
depends on X86 && STMMAC_ETH && PCI
depends on COMMON_CLK
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the Intel platform specific bus support for the
stmmac driver. This driver is used for Intel Quark/EHL/TGL.
tristate "STMMAC PCI bus support"
depends on STMMAC_ETH && PCI
depends on COMMON_CLK
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the platform specific bus support for the stmmac driver.
This driver was tested on XLINX XC2V3000 FF1152AMT0221
D1215994A VIRTEX FPGA board and SNPS QoS IPK Prototyping Kit.
bool "Sun devices"
default y
depends on SUN3 || SBUS || PCI || SUN_LDOMS
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Sun Happy Meal 10/100baseT support"
depends on (SBUS || PCI)
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the "hme" interface present on most Ultra
systems and as an option on older Sbus systems. This driver supports
both PCI and Sbus devices. This driver also supports the "qfe" quad
tristate "Sun BigMAC 10/100baseT support"
depends on SBUS
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the "be" interface available as an Sbus option.
This is Sun's older 100baseT Ethernet device.
tristate "Sun QuadEthernet support"
depends on SBUS
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the "qe" 10baseT Ethernet device, available as
an Sbus option. Note that this is not the same as Quad FastEthernet
"qfe" which is supported by the Happy Meal driver instead.
depends on PCI
select CRC32
select SUNGEM_PHY
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Sun GEM chip, aka Sun GigabitEthernet/P 2.0. See also
<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-3985-10/806-3985-10.pdf>.
tristate "Sun Cassini support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Sun Cassini chip, aka Sun GigaSwift Ethernet. See also
<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19113-01/giga.ether.pci/817-4341-10/817-4341-10.pdf>.
default m
depends on SUN_LDOMS
depends on SUNVNET_COMMON
- ---help---
+ help
Support for virtual network devices under Sun Logical Domains.
config LDMVSW
default m
depends on SUN_LDOMS
depends on SUNVNET_COMMON
- ---help---
+ help
Support for virtual switch devices under Sun4v Logical Domains.
This driver adds a network interface for every vsw-port node
found in the machine description of a service domain.
tristate "Sun Neptune 10Gbit Ethernet support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for cards based upon Sun's
Neptune chipset.
config NET_VENDOR_SYNOPSYS
bool "Synopsys devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) device belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA
select BITREVERSE
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Synopsys DesignWare Cores Enterprise
Ethernet (dwc-xlgmac).
config DWC_XLGMAC_PCI
tristate "XLGMAC PCI bus support"
depends on DWC_XLGMAC && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the pci bus support for the dwc-xlgmac driver.
This driver was tested on Synopsys XLGMAC IP Prototyping Kit.
bool "Tehuti devices"
default y
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config TEHUTI
tristate "Tehuti Networks 10G Ethernet"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Tehuti Networks 10G Ethernet NIC
endif # NET_VENDOR_TEHUTI
bool "Texas Instruments (TI) devices"
default y
depends on PCI || EISA || AR7 || ARCH_DAVINCI || ARCH_OMAP2PLUS || ARCH_KEYSTONE || ARCH_K3
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select TI_DAVINCI_MDIO
select PHYLIB
select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports TI's DaVinci Ethernet .
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
tristate "TI DaVinci MDIO Support"
depends on ARCH_DAVINCI || ARCH_OMAP2PLUS || ARCH_KEYSTONE || ARCH_K3 || COMPILE_TEST
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports TI's DaVinci MDIO module.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
config TI_CPSW_PHY_SEL
bool "TI CPSW Phy mode Selection (DEPRECATED)"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports configuring of the phy mode connected to
the CPSW. DEPRECATED: use PHY_TI_GMII_SEL.
select PAGE_POOL
select REGMAP
imply PHY_TI_GMII_SEL
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports TI's CPSW Ethernet Switch.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
depends on ARCH_OMAP2PLUS || ARCH_KEYSTONE || COMPILE_TEST
depends on COMMON_CLK
depends on PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Common Platform Time Sync unit of
the CPSW Ethernet Switch and Keystone 2 1g/10g Switch Subsystem.
The unit can time stamp PTP UDP/IPv4 and Layer 2 packets, and the
depends on OF
depends on KEYSTONE_NAVIGATOR_DMA && KEYSTONE_NAVIGATOR_QMSS
depends on TI_CPTS || !TI_CPTS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports TI's Keystone NETCP Core.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
config TI_KEYSTONE_NETCP_ETHSS
depends on TI_KEYSTONE_NETCP
tristate "TI Keystone NETCP Ethernet subsystem Support"
- ---help---
+ help
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called keystone_netcp_ethss.
config TLAN
tristate "TI ThunderLAN support"
depends on (PCI || EISA)
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a PCI Ethernet network card based on the ThunderLAN chip
which is supported by this driver, say Y here.
tristate "TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet support"
depends on AR7
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet support
endif # NET_VENDOR_TI
bool "Toshiba devices"
default y
depends on PCI && (PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE || MIPS) || PPC_PS3
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "PS3 Gigabit Ethernet driver"
depends on PPC_PS3
select PS3_SYS_MANAGER
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the network device on the PS3 game
console. This driver has built-in support for Ethernet.
bool "PS3 Wireless support"
depends on GELIC_NET && WLAN
select WIRELESS_EXT
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds the support for the wireless feature of PS3.
If you have the wireless-less model of PS3 or have no plan to
use wireless feature, disabling this option saves memory. As
depends on PCI && PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE
select FW_LOADER
select SUNGEM_PHY
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet chips present on the
Cell Processor-Based Blades from IBM.
bool "Tundra devices"
default y
depends on TSI108_BRIDGE
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config TSI108_ETH
tristate "Tundra TSI108 gigabit Ethernet support"
depends on TSI108_BRIDGE
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Tundra TSI108 gigabit Ethernet ports.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called tsi108_eth.
config NET_VENDOR_VIA
bool "VIA devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on HAS_DMA
select CRC32
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a VIA "Rhine" based network card (Rhine-I (VT86C100A),
Rhine-II (VT6102), or Rhine-III (VT6105)), say Y here. Rhine-type
Ethernet functions can also be found integrated on South Bridges
config VIA_RHINE_MMIO
bool "Use MMIO instead of PIO"
depends on VIA_RHINE
- ---help---
+ help
This instructs the driver to use PCI shared memory (MMIO) instead of
programmed I/O ports (PIO). Enabling this gives an improvement in
processing time in parts of the driver.
select CRC32
select CRC_CCITT
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a VIA "Velocity" based network card say Y here.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
bool "WIZnet devices"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config WIZNET_W5100
tristate "WIZnet W5100 Ethernet support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
Support for WIZnet W5100 chips.
W5100 is a single chip with integrated 10/100 Ethernet MAC,
config WIZNET_W5300
tristate "WIZnet W5300 Ethernet support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
Support for WIZnet W5300 chips.
W5300 is a single chip with integrated 10/100 Ethernet MAC,
config WIZNET_BUS_DIRECT
bool "Direct address bus mode"
- ---help---
+ help
In direct address mode host system can directly access all registers
after mapping to Memory-Mapped I/O space.
config WIZNET_BUS_INDIRECT
bool "Indirect address bus mode"
- ---help---
+ help
In indirect address mode host system indirectly accesses registers
using Indirect Mode Address Register and Indirect Mode Data Register,
which are directly mapped to Memory-Mapped I/O space.
config WIZNET_BUS_ANY
bool "Select interface mode in runtime"
- ---help---
+ help
If interface mode is unknown in compile time, it can be selected
in runtime from board/platform resources configuration.
tristate "WIZnet W5100/W5200/W5500 Ethernet support for SPI mode"
depends on WIZNET_BUS_ANY && WIZNET_W5100
depends on SPI
- ---help---
+ help
In SPI mode host system accesses registers using SPI protocol
(mode 0) on the SPI bus.
config NET_VENDOR_XILINX
bool "Xilinx devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Xilinx 10/100 Ethernet Lite support"
depends on PPC32 || MICROBLAZE || ARCH_ZYNQ || MIPS
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the 10/100 Ethernet Lite from Xilinx.
config XILINX_AXI_EMAC
tristate "Xilinx 10/100/1000 AXI Ethernet support"
select PHYLINK
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the 10/100/1000 Ethernet from Xilinx for the
AXI bus interface used in Xilinx Virtex FPGAs and Soc's.
config XILINX_LL_TEMAC
tristate "Xilinx LL TEMAC (LocalLink Tri-mode Ethernet MAC) driver"
select PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Xilinx 10/100/1000 LocalLink TEMAC
core used in Xilinx Spartan and Virtex FPGAs
bool "Xircom devices"
default y
depends on PCMCIA
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config PCMCIA_XIRC2PS
tristate "Xircom 16-bit PCMCIA support"
depends on PCMCIA
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you intend to attach a Xircom 16-bit PCMCIA (PC-card)
Ethernet or Fast Ethernet card to your computer.
default y
depends on NET_VENDOR_INTEL && (ARM && ARCH_IXP4XX && \
IXP4XX_NPE && IXP4XX_QMGR)
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question does not directly affect the
depends on ARM && ARCH_IXP4XX && IXP4XX_NPE && IXP4XX_QMGR
select PHYLIB
select NET_PTP_CLASSIFY
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use built-in Ethernet ports
on IXP4xx processor.
config FDDI
tristate "FDDI driver support"
depends on PCI || EISA || TC
- ---help---
+ help
Fiber Distributed Data Interface is a high speed local area network
design; essentially a replacement for high speed Ethernet. FDDI can
run over copper or fiber. If you are connected to such a network and
config DEFXX
tristate "Digital DEFTA/DEFEA/DEFPA adapter support"
depends on FDDI && (PCI || EISA || TC)
- ---help---
+ help
This is support for the DIGITAL series of TURBOchannel (DEFTA),
EISA (DEFEA) and PCI (DEFPA) controllers which can connect you
to a local FDDI network.
depends on DEFXX
default n if PCI || EISA
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This instructs the driver to use EISA or PCI memory-mapped I/O
(MMIO) as appropriate instead of programmed I/O ports (PIO).
Enabling this gives an improvement in processing time in parts
tristate "SysKonnect FDDI PCI support"
depends on FDDI && PCI
select BITREVERSE
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a SysKonnect FDDI PCI adapter.
The following adapters are supported by this driver:
- SK-5521 (SK-NET FDDI-UP)
tristate "Serial port KISS driver"
depends on AX25 && TTY
select CRC16
- ---help---
+ help
KISS is a protocol used for the exchange of data between a computer
and a Terminal Node Controller (a small embedded system commonly
used for networking over AX.25 amateur radio connections; it
config 6PACK
tristate "Serial port 6PACK driver"
depends on AX25 && TTY
- ---help---
+ help
6pack is a transmission protocol for the data exchange between your
PC and your TNC (the Terminal Node Controller acts as a kind of
modem connecting your computer's serial port to your radio's
config DMASCC
tristate "High-speed (DMA) SCC driver for AX.25"
depends on ISA && AX25 && BROKEN_ON_SMP && ISA_DMA_API
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for high-speed SCC boards, i.e. those supporting
DMA on one port. You usually use those boards to connect your
computer to an amateur radio modem (such as the WA4DSY 56kbps
config SCC
tristate "Z8530 SCC driver"
depends on ISA && AX25 && ISA_DMA_API
- ---help---
+ help
These cards are used to connect your Linux box to an amateur radio
in order to communicate with other computers. If you want to use
this, read <file:Documentation/networking/z8530drv.rst> and the
tristate "BAYCOM ser12 fullduplex driver for AX.25"
depends on AX25 && !S390
select CRC_CCITT
- ---help---
+ help
This is one of two drivers for Baycom style simple amateur radio
modems that connect to a serial interface. The driver supports the
ser12 design in full-duplex mode. In addition, it allows the
tristate "BAYCOM ser12 halfduplex driver for AX.25"
depends on AX25 && !S390
select CRC_CCITT
- ---help---
+ help
This is one of two drivers for Baycom style simple amateur radio
modems that connect to a serial interface. The driver supports the
ser12 design in half-duplex mode. This is the old driver. It is
tristate "BAYCOM picpar and par96 driver for AX.25"
depends on PARPORT && AX25
select CRC_CCITT
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for Baycom style simple amateur radio modems that
connect to a parallel interface. The driver supports the picpar and
par96 designs. To configure the driver, use the sethdlc utility
tristate "BAYCOM epp driver for AX.25"
depends on PARPORT && AX25 && !64BIT
select CRC_CCITT
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for Baycom style simple amateur radio modems that
connect to a parallel interface. The driver supports the EPP
designs. To configure the driver, use the sethdlc utility available
config HIPPI
bool "HIPPI driver support"
depends on INET && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
HIgh Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) is a 800Mbit/sec and
1600Mbit/sec dual-simplex switched or point-to-point network. HIPPI
can run over copper (25m) or fiber (300m on multi-mode or 10km on
config ROADRUNNER
tristate "Essential RoadRunner HIPPI PCI adapter support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if this is your PCI HIPPI network card.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
config ROADRUNNER_LARGE_RINGS
bool "Use large TX/RX rings"
depends on ROADRUNNER
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, the RoadRunner driver will preallocate up to 2 MB
of additional memory to allow for fastest operation, both for
transmitting and receiving. This memory cannot be used by any other
tristate "IEEE 802.15.4 drivers"
depends on NETDEVICES && IEEE802154
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for IEEE 802.15.4 Low-Rate
Wireless Personal Area Network device drivers. This option alone
does not add any kernel code.
config IEEE802154_FAKELB
depends on IEEE802154_DRIVERS && MAC802154
tristate "IEEE 802.15.4 loopback driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable the fake driver that can emulate a net
of several interconnected radio devices.
tristate "AT86RF230/231/233/212 transceiver driver"
depends on SPI
select REGMAP_SPI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable the at86rf230/231/233/212 SPI 802.15.4 wireless
controller.
depends on IEEE802154_AT86RF230
bool "AT86RF230 debugfs interface"
depends on DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This option compiles debugfs code for the at86rf230 driver.
config IEEE802154_MRF24J40
depends on IEEE802154_DRIVERS && MAC802154
depends on SPI
select REGMAP_SPI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable the MRF24J20 SPI 802.15.4 wireless
controller.
depends on IEEE802154_DRIVERS && MAC802154
tristate "CC2520 transceiver driver"
depends on SPI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable the CC2520 SPI 802.15.4 wireless
controller.
config IEEE802154_ATUSB
tristate "ATUSB transceiver driver"
depends on IEEE802154_DRIVERS && MAC802154 && USB
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable the ATUSB IEEE 802.15.4 wireless
controller.
tristate "ADF7242 transceiver driver"
depends on IEEE802154_DRIVERS && MAC802154
depends on SPI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable the ADF7242 SPI 802.15.4 wireless
controller.
depends on IEEE802154_DRIVERS && MAC802154
depends on COMMON_CLK
depends on SPI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable the CA8210 SPI 802.15.4 wireless
controller.
bool "CA8210 debugfs interface"
depends on IEEE802154_CA8210
depends on DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This option compiles debugfs code for the ca8210 driver. This
exposes a debugfs node for each CA8210 instance which allows
direct use of the Cascoda API, exposing the 802.15.4 MAC
tristate "MCR20A transceiver driver"
depends on IEEE802154_DRIVERS && MAC802154
depends on SPI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable the MCR20A SPI 802.15.4 wireless
controller.
config IEEE802154_HWSIM
depends on IEEE802154_DRIVERS && MAC802154
tristate "Simulated radio testing tool for mac802154"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is a developer testing tool that can be used to test
IEEE 802.15.4 networking stack (mac802154) functionality. This is not
needed for normal wpan usage and is only for testing.
tristate "GPIO lib-based bitbanged MDIO buses"
depends on MDIO_BITBANG
depends on GPIOLIB || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Supports GPIO lib-based MDIO busses.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
config LED_TRIGGER_PHY
bool "Support LED triggers for tracking link state"
depends on LEDS_TRIGGERS
- ---help---
+ help
Adds support for a set of LED trigger events per-PHY. Link
state change will trigger the events, for consumption by an
LED class driver. There are triggers for each link speed currently
config AMD_PHY
tristate "AMD PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the am79c874
config AQUANTIA_PHY
tristate "Aquantia PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the Aquantia AQ1202, AQ2104, AQR105, AQR405
config AX88796B_PHY
tristate "Broadcom 63xx SOCs internal PHY"
depends on BCM63XX || COMPILE_TEST
select BCM_NET_PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the 6348 and 6358 PHYs.
config BCM7XXX_PHY
tristate "Broadcom 7xxx SOCs internal PHYs"
select BCM_NET_PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the BCM7366, BCM7439, BCM7445, and
40nm and 65nm generation of BCM7xxx Set Top Box SoCs.
depends on ARCH_BCM_IPROC || COMPILE_TEST
depends on MDIO_BCM_IPROC
select BCM_NET_PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This PHY driver is for the 1G internal PHYs of the Broadcom
Cygnus and Omega Family SoC.
config BROADCOM_PHY
tristate "Broadcom PHYs"
select BCM_NET_PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the BCM5411, BCM5421, BCM5461, BCM54616S, BCM5464,
BCM5481, BCM54810 and BCM5482 PHYs.
config BCM84881_PHY
tristate "Broadcom BCM84881 PHY"
depends on PHYLIB
- ---help---
+ help
Support the Broadcom BCM84881 PHY.
config CICADA_PHY
tristate "Cicada PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the cis8204
config CORTINA_PHY
tristate "Cortina EDC CDR 10G Ethernet PHY"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the CS4340 phy.
config DAVICOM_PHY
tristate "Davicom PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports dm9161e and dm9131
config DP83822_PHY
tristate "Texas Instruments DP83822/825/826 PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the DP83822, DP83825I, DP83825CM, DP83825CS, DP83825S,
DP83826C and DP83826NC PHYs.
config DP83TC811_PHY
tristate "Texas Instruments DP83TC811 PHY"
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the DP83TC811 PHY.
config DP83848_PHY
tristate "Texas Instruments DP83848 PHY"
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the DP83848 PHY.
config DP83867_PHY
tristate "Texas Instruments DP83867 Gigabit PHY"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the DP83867 PHY.
config DP83869_PHY
tristate "Texas Instruments DP83869 Gigabit PHY"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the DP83869 PHY. This PHY supports copper and
fiber connections.
tristate "MDIO Bus/PHY emulation with fixed speed/link PHYs"
depends on PHYLIB
select SWPHY
- ---help---
+ help
Adds the platform "fixed" MDIO Bus to cover the boards that use
PHYs that are not connected to the real MDIO bus.
config ICPLUS_PHY
tristate "ICPlus PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the IP175C and IP1001 PHYs.
config INTEL_XWAY_PHY
tristate "Intel XWAY PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the Intel XWAY (former Lantiq) 11G and 22E PHYs.
These PHYs are marked as standalone chips under the names
PEF 7061, PEF 7071 and PEF 7072 or integrated into the Intel
config LSI_ET1011C_PHY
tristate "LSI ET1011C PHY"
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the LSI ET1011C PHY.
config LXT_PHY
tristate "Intel LXT PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the lxt970, lxt971
config MARVELL_PHY
tristate "Marvell PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently has a driver for the 88E1011S
config MARVELL_10G_PHY
tristate "Marvell Alaska 10Gbit PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Marvell Alaska MV88X3310 and compatible PHYs.
config MESON_GXL_PHY
tristate "Amlogic Meson GXL Internal PHY"
depends on ARCH_MESON || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Currently has a driver for the Amlogic Meson GXL Internal PHY
config MICREL_PHY
tristate "Micrel PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the KSZ9021, VSC8201, KS8001 PHYs.
config MICROCHIP_PHY
config MICROCHIP_T1_PHY
tristate "Microchip T1 PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the LAN87XX PHYs.
config MICROSEMI_PHY
depends on MACSEC || MACSEC=n
select CRYPTO_AES
select CRYPTO_ECB
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports VSC8514, VSC8530, VSC8531, VSC8540 and VSC8541 PHYs
config NATIONAL_PHY
tristate "National Semiconductor PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the DP83865 PHY.
config NXP_TJA11XX_PHY
tristate "NXP TJA11xx PHYs support"
depends on HWMON
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the NXP TJA1100 and TJA1101 PHY.
config AT803X_PHY
config QSEMI_PHY
tristate "Quality Semiconductor PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the qs6612
config REALTEK_PHY
tristate "Realtek PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the Realtek 821x PHY.
config RENESAS_PHY
tristate "Driver for Renesas PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the Renesas PHYs uPD60620 and uPD60620A.
config ROCKCHIP_PHY
tristate "Driver for Rockchip Ethernet PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the integrated Ethernet PHY.
config SMSC_PHY
tristate "SMSC PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the LAN83C185, LAN8187 and LAN8700 PHYs
config STE10XP
tristate "STMicroelectronics STe10Xp PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the STe100p and STe101p PHYs.
config TERANETICS_PHY
tristate "Teranetics PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the Teranetics TN2020
config VITESSE_PHY
tristate "Vitesse PHYs"
- ---help---
+ help
Currently supports the vsc8244
config XILINX_GMII2RGMII
tristate "Xilinx GMII2RGMII converter driver"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver support xilinx GMII to RGMII IP core it provides
the Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface(RGMII) between
Ethernet physical media devices and the Gigabit Ethernet controller.
config PLIP
tristate "PLIP (parallel port) support"
depends on PARPORT
- ---help---
+ help
PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol) is used to create a
reasonably fast mini network consisting of two (or, rarely, more)
local machines. A PLIP link from a Linux box is a popular means to
config PPP
tristate "PPP (point-to-point protocol) support"
select SLHC
- ---help---
+ help
PPP (Point to Point Protocol) is a newer and better SLIP. It serves
the same purpose: sending Internet traffic over telephone (and other
serial) lines. Ask your access provider if they support it, because
config PPP_BSDCOMP
tristate "PPP BSD-Compress compression"
depends on PPP
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the BSD-Compress compression method for PPP, which uses
the LZW compression method to compress each PPP packet before it is
sent over the wire. The machine at the other end of the PPP link
depends on PPP
select ZLIB_INFLATE
select ZLIB_DEFLATE
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Deflate compression method for PPP, which uses the
Deflate algorithm (the same algorithm that gzip uses) to compress
each PPP packet before it is sent over the wire. The machine at the
config PPP_FILTER
bool "PPP filtering"
depends on PPP
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to filter the packets passing over
PPP interfaces. This allows you to control which packets count as
activity (i.e. which packets will reset the idle timer or bring up
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_SHA1
select CRYPTO_LIB_ARC4
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the MPPE Encryption protocol, as employed by the
Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.
config PPP_MULTILINK
bool "PPP multilink support"
depends on PPP
- ---help---
+ help
PPP multilink is a protocol (defined in RFC 1990) which allows you
to combine several (logical or physical) lines into one logical PPP
connection, so that you can utilize your full bandwidth.
config PPPOATM
tristate "PPP over ATM"
depends on ATM && PPP
- ---help---
+ help
Support PPP (Point to Point Protocol) encapsulated in ATM frames.
This implementation does not yet comply with section 8 of RFC2364,
which can lead to bad results if the ATM peer loses state and
config PPPOE
tristate "PPP over Ethernet"
depends on PPP
- ---help---
+ help
Support for PPP over Ethernet.
This driver requires the latest version of pppd from the CVS
config PPTP
tristate "PPP over IPv4 (PPTP)"
depends on PPP && NET_IPGRE_DEMUX
- ---help---
+ help
Support for PPP over IPv4.(Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol)
This driver requires pppd plugin to work in client mode or
config PPPOL2TP
tristate "PPP over L2TP"
depends on L2TP && PPP
- ---help---
+ help
Support for PPP-over-L2TP socket family. L2TP is a protocol
used by ISPs and enterprises to tunnel PPP traffic over UDP
tunnels. L2TP is replacing PPTP for VPN uses.
tristate "PPP support for async serial ports"
depends on PPP
select CRC_CCITT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y (or M) here if you want to be able to use PPP over standard
asynchronous serial ports, such as COM1 or COM2 on a PC. If you use
a modem (not a synchronous or ISDN modem) to contact your ISP, you
config PPP_SYNC_TTY
tristate "PPP support for sync tty ports"
depends on PPP
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y (or M) here if you want to be able to use PPP over synchronous
(HDLC) tty devices, such as the SyncLink adapter. These devices
are often used for high-speed leased lines like T1/E1.
config SLIP
tristate "SLIP (serial line) support"
depends on TTY
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you intend to use SLIP or CSLIP (compressed SLIP) to
connect to your Internet service provider or to connect to some
other local Unix box or if you want to configure your Linux box as a
config SLHC
tristate
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables Van Jacobsen serial line header compression
routines.
bool "CSLIP compressed headers"
depends on SLIP
select SLHC
- ---help---
+ help
This protocol is faster than SLIP because it uses compression on the
TCP/IP headers (not on the data itself), but it has to be supported
on both ends. Ask your access provider if you are not sure and
config SLIP_SMART
bool "Keepalive and linefill"
depends on SLIP
- ---help---
+ help
Adds additional capabilities to the SLIP driver to support the
RELCOM line fill and keepalive monitoring. Ideal on poor quality
analogue lines.
config SLIP_MODE_SLIP6
bool "Six bit SLIP encapsulation"
depends on SLIP
- ---help---
+ help
Just occasionally you may need to run IP over hostile serial
networks that don't pass all control characters or are only seven
bit. Saying Y here adds an extra mode you can use with SLIP:
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
menuconfig NET_TEAM
tristate "Ethernet team driver support"
- ---help---
+ help
This allows one to create virtual interfaces that teams together
multiple ethernet devices.
config NET_TEAM_MODE_BROADCAST
tristate "Broadcast mode support"
depends on NET_TEAM
- ---help---
+ help
Basic mode where packets are transmitted always by all suitable ports.
All added ports are setup to have team's device address.
config NET_TEAM_MODE_ROUNDROBIN
tristate "Round-robin mode support"
depends on NET_TEAM
- ---help---
+ help
Basic mode where port used for transmitting packets is selected in
round-robin fashion using packet counter.
config NET_TEAM_MODE_RANDOM
tristate "Random mode support"
depends on NET_TEAM
- ---help---
+ help
Basic mode where port used for transmitting packets is selected
randomly.
config NET_TEAM_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP
tristate "Active-backup mode support"
depends on NET_TEAM
- ---help---
+ help
Only one port is active at a time and the rest of ports are used
for backup.
config NET_TEAM_MODE_LOADBALANCE
tristate "Load-balance mode support"
depends on NET_TEAM
- ---help---
+ help
This mode provides load balancing functionality. Tx port selection
is done using BPF function set up from userspace (bpf_hash_func
option)
config USB_CATC
tristate "USB CATC NetMate-based Ethernet device support"
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you want to use one of the following 10Mbps USB Ethernet
device based on the EL1210A chip. Supported devices are:
Belkin F5U011
config USB_KAWETH
tristate "USB KLSI KL5USB101-based ethernet device support"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use one of the following 10Mbps only
USB Ethernet adapters based on the KLSI KL5KUSB101B chipset:
3Com 3C19250
config USB_PEGASUS
tristate "USB Pegasus/Pegasus-II based ethernet device support"
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you know you have Pegasus or Pegasus-II based adapter.
If in doubt then look at <file:drivers/net/usb/pegasus.h> for the
complete list of supported devices.
config USB_USBNET
tristate "Multi-purpose USB Networking Framework"
select MII
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports several kinds of network links over USB,
with "minidrivers" built around a common network driver core
that supports deep queues for efficient transfers. (This gives
tristate "CoreChip-sz SR9800 based USB 2.0 10/100 ethernet devices"
depends on USB_USBNET
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you want to use one of the following 100Mbps USB Ethernet
device based on the CoreChip-sz SR9800 chip.
config USB_IPHETH
tristate "Apple iPhone USB Ethernet driver"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Module used to share Internet connection (tethering) from your
iPhone (Original, 3G and 3GS) to your system.
Note that you need userspace libraries and programs that are needed
menuconfig WAN
bool "Wan interfaces support"
- ---help---
+ help
Wide Area Networks (WANs), such as X.25, Frame Relay and leased
lines, are used to interconnect Local Area Networks (LANs) over vast
distances with data transfer rates significantly higher than those
config COSA
tristate "COSA/SRP sync serial boards support"
depends on ISA && m && ISA_DMA_API && HDLC && VIRT_TO_BUS
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for COSA and SRP synchronous serial boards.
These boards allow to connect synchronous serial devices (for example
config LANMEDIA
tristate "LanMedia Corp. SSI/V.35, T1/E1, HSSI, T3 boards"
depends on PCI && VIRT_TO_BUS && HDLC
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for the following Lan Media family of serial boards:
- LMC 1000 board allows you to connect synchronous serial devices
config FARSYNC
tristate "FarSync T-Series support"
depends on HDLC && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the FarSync T-Series X.21 (and V.35/V.24) cards by
FarSite Communications Ltd.
config DLCI
tristate "Frame Relay DLCI support"
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Frame Relay protocol.
Frame Relay is a fast low-cost way to connect to a remote Internet
config LAPBETHER
tristate "LAPB over Ethernet driver"
depends on LAPB && X25
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for a pseudo device (typically called /dev/lapb0) which allows
you to open an LAPB point-to-point connection to some other computer
on your Ethernet network.
config X25_ASY
tristate "X.25 async driver"
depends on LAPB && X25 && TTY
- ---help---
+ help
Send and receive X.25 frames over regular asynchronous serial
lines such as telephone lines equipped with ordinary modems.
config SBNI
tristate "Granch SBNI12 Leased Line adapter support"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for ISA SBNI12-xx cards which are low cost alternatives to
leased line modems.
depends on NET
select WIRELESS
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This section contains all the pre 802.11 and 802.11 wireless
device drivers. For a complete list of drivers and documentation
on them refer to the wireless wiki:
select WIRELESS_EXT
select WEXT_SPY
select WEXT_PRIV
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
(PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.rst> for
config MAC80211_HWSIM
tristate "Simulated radio testing tool for mac80211"
depends on MAC80211
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is a developer testing tool that can be used to test
IEEE 802.11 networking stack (mac80211) functionality. This is not
needed for normal wireless LAN usage and is only for testing. See
select USB_USBNET
select USB_NET_CDCETHER
select USB_NET_RNDIS_HOST
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for wireless RNDIS devices.
These are USB based adapters found in devices such as:
config VIRT_WIFI
tristate "Wifi wrapper for ethernet drivers"
depends on CFG80211
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds support for ethernet connections to appear as if they
are wifi connections through a special rtnetlink device.
config WLAN_VENDOR_ADMTEK
bool "ADMtek devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
depends on MAC80211 && PCI
select CRC32
select EEPROM_93CX6
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for ADM8211A, ADM8211B, and ADM8211C based cards.
These are PCI/mini-PCI/Cardbus 802.11b chips found in cards such as:
config WLAN_VENDOR_ATH
bool "Atheros/Qualcomm devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config ATH_DEBUG
bool "Atheros wireless debugging"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y, if you want to debug atheros wireless drivers.
Right now only ath9k makes use of this.
bool "Atheros wireless tracing"
depends on ATH_DEBUG
depends on EVENT_TRACING
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables tracepoints for atheros wireless drivers.
Currently, ath9k makes use of this facility.
bool "Atheros dynamic user regulatory hints"
depends on CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say N. This should only be enabled in countries where
this feature is explicitly allowed and only on cards that
specifically have been tested for this.
bool "Atheros dynamic user regulatory testing"
depends on ATH_REG_DYNAMIC_USER_REG_HINTS && CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say N. This should only be enabled on systems
undergoing certification testing.
depends on MAC80211 && USB
select ATH_COMMON
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This module add support for AR5523 based USB dongles such as D-Link
DWL-G132, Netgear WPN111 and many more.
select CRC32
select WANT_DEV_COREDUMP
select ATH10K_CE
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for wireless adapters based on
Atheros IEEE 802.11ac family of chipsets.
config ATH10K_PCI
tristate "Atheros ath10k PCI support"
depends on ATH10K && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for PCIE bus
config ATH10K_AHB
bool "Atheros ath10k AHB support"
depends on ATH10K_PCI && OF && RESET_CONTROLLER
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for AHB bus
config ATH10K_SDIO
tristate "Atheros ath10k SDIO support"
depends on ATH10K && MMC
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for SDIO/MMC bus.
config ATH10K_USB
tristate "Atheros ath10k USB support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on ATH10K && USB
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds experimental support for USB bus. Currently
work in progress and will not fully work.
depends on ATH10K
depends on ARCH_QCOM || COMPILE_TEST
select QCOM_QMI_HELPERS
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for integrated WCN3990 chip connected
to system NOC(SNOC).
config ATH10K_DEBUG
bool "Atheros ath10k debugging"
depends on ATH10K
- ---help---
+ help
Enables debug support
If unsure, say Y to make it easier to debug problems.
config ATH10K_DEBUGFS
bool "Atheros ath10k debugfs support"
depends on ATH10K && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Enabled debugfs support
If unsure, say Y to make it easier to debug problems.
depends on ATH10K_DEBUGFS
select RELAY
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to enable access to the FFT/spectral data via debugfs.
config ATH10K_TRACING
bool "Atheros ath10k tracing support"
depends on ATH10K
depends on EVENT_TRACING
- ---help---
+ help
Select this to ath10k use tracing infrastructure.
config ATH10K_DFS_CERTIFIED
bool "Atheros DFS support for certified platforms"
depends on ATH10K && CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables DFS support for initiating radiation on
ath10k.
depends on ARCH_QCOM || COMPILE_TEST
select ATH_COMMON
select QCOM_QMI_HELPERS
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for Qualcomm Technologies 802.11ax family of
chipsets.
config ATH11K_DEBUG
bool "QCA ath11k debugging"
depends on ATH11K
- ---help---
+ help
Enables debug support
If unsure, say Y to make it easier to debug problems.
config ATH11K_DEBUGFS
bool "QCA ath11k debugfs support"
depends on ATH11K && DEBUG_FS && MAC80211_DEBUGFS
- ---help---
+ help
Enable ath11k debugfs support
If unsure, say Y to make it easier to debug problems.
config ATH11K_TRACING
bool "ath11k tracing support"
depends on ATH11K && EVENT_TRACING
- ---help---
+ help
Select this to use ath11k tracing infrastructure.
select NEW_LEDS
select ATH5K_AHB if ATH25
select ATH5K_PCI if !ATH25
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for wireless adapters based on
Atheros 5xxx chipset.
config ATH5K_DEBUG
bool "Atheros 5xxx debugging"
depends on ATH5K
- ---help---
+ help
Atheros 5xxx debugging messages.
Say Y, if and you will get debug options for ath5k.
bool "Atheros 5xxx tracer"
depends on ATH5K
depends on EVENT_TRACING
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable tracepoints for the ath5k driver
using the kernel tracing infrastructure. Select this
option if you are interested in debugging the driver.
config ATH5K_AHB
bool "Atheros 5xxx AHB bus support"
depends on ATH25 && ATH5K
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for WiSoC type chipsets of the 5xxx Atheros
family.
config ATH5K_PCI
bool "Atheros 5xxx PCI bus support"
depends on (!ATH25 && PCI)
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for PCI type chipsets of the 5xxx Atheros
family.
config ATH5K_TEST_CHANNELS
bool "Enables testing channels on ath5k"
depends on ATH5K && CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
- ---help---
+ help
This enables non-standard IEEE 802.11 channels on ath5k, which
can be used for research purposes. This option should be disabled
unless doing research.
config ATH6KL
tristate "Atheros mobile chipsets support"
depends on CFG80211
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds core support for wireless adapters based on
Atheros AR6003 and AR6004 chipsets. You still need separate
bus drivers for USB and SDIO to be able to use real devices.
tristate "Atheros ath6kl SDIO support"
depends on ATH6KL
depends on MMC
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for wireless adapters based on
Atheros AR6003 and AR6004 chipsets running over SDIO. If you
choose to build it as a module, it will be called ath6kl_sdio.
tristate "Atheros ath6kl USB support"
depends on ATH6KL
depends on USB
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for wireless adapters based on
Atheros AR6004 chipset and chipsets based on it running over
USB. If you choose to build it as a module, it will be
config ATH6KL_DEBUG
bool "Atheros ath6kl debugging"
depends on ATH6KL
- ---help---
+ help
Enables ath6kl debug support, including debug messages
enabled with debug_mask module parameter and debugfs
interface.
bool "Atheros ath6kl tracing support"
depends on ATH6KL
depends on EVENT_TRACING
- ---help---
+ help
Select this to ath6kl use tracing infrastructure which, for
example, can be enabled with help of trace-cmd. All debug
messages and commands are delivered to using individually
bool "Atheros ath6kl regdomain support"
depends on ATH6KL
depends on CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this makes it possible to change the regdomain in
the firmware. This can be only enabled if regulatory requirements
are taken into account.
bool "Atheros bluetooth coexistence support"
depends on (ATH9K || ATH9K_HTC)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y, if you want to use the ath9k/ath9k_htc radios together with
Bluetooth modules in the same system.
select LEDS_CLASS
select NEW_LEDS
select ATH9K_COMMON
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for wireless adapters based on
Atheros IEEE 802.11n AR5008, AR9001 and AR9002 family
of chipsets. For a specific list of supported external
bool "Atheros ath9k PCI/PCIe bus support"
default y
depends on ATH9K && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the PCI bus support in ath9k.
Say Y, if you have a compatible PCI/PCIe wireless card.
bool "Atheros ath9k AHB bus support"
depends on ATH9K
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the AHB bus support in ath9k.
Say Y, if you have a SoC with a compatible built-in
depends on ATH9K && DEBUG_FS
select MAC80211_DEBUGFS
select ATH9K_COMMON_DEBUG
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y, if you need access to ath9k's statistics for
interrupts, rate control, etc.
depends on ATH9K && ATH9K_DEBUGFS && DEBUG_FS
select MAC80211_DEBUGFS
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables detailed statistics for association stations.
config ATH9K_TX99
bool "Atheros ath9k TX99 testing support"
depends on ATH9K_DEBUGFS && CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say N. This should only be enabled on systems undergoing
certification testing and evaluation in a controlled environment.
Enabling this will only enable TX99 support, all other modes of
bool "Atheros DFS support for certified platforms"
depends on ATH9K && CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables DFS support for initiating radiation on
ath9k. There is no way to dynamically detect if a card was DFS
certified and as such this is left as a build time option. This
bool "Atheros ath9k ACK timeout estimation algorithm"
depends on ATH9K
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables ath9k dynamic ACK timeout estimation algorithm
based on ACK frame RX timestamp, TX frame timestamp and frame
duration
bool "Wake on Wireless LAN support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on ATH9K && PM
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables Wake on Wireless LAN support for certain cards.
Currently, AR9462 is supported.
bool "Channel Context support"
depends on ATH9K
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables channel context support in ath9k, which is needed
for multi-channel concurrency. Enable this if P2P PowerSave support
is required.
select LEDS_CLASS
select NEW_LEDS
select ATH9K_COMMON
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Atheros HTC based cards.
Chipsets supported: AR9271
bool "Atheros ath9k_htc debugging"
depends on ATH9K_HTC && DEBUG_FS
select ATH9K_COMMON_DEBUG
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y, if you need access to ath9k_htc's statistics.
As well as access to the FFT/spectral data.
bool "Random number generator support"
depends on ATH9K && (HW_RANDOM = y || HW_RANDOM = ATH9K)
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option incorporates the ADC register output as a source of
randomness into Linux entropy pool (/dev/urandom and /dev/random)
depends on ATH9K_DEBUGFS || ATH9K_HTC_DEBUGFS
select RELAY
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to enable access to the FFT/spectral data via debugfs.
depends on MAC80211 && HAS_DMA
depends on QCOM_WCNSS_CTRL || QCOM_WCNSS_CTRL=n
depends on RPMSG || RPMSG=n
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for wireless adapters based on
Qualcomm Atheros WCN3660 and WCN3680 mobile chipsets.
config WCN36XX_DEBUGFS
bool "WCN36XX debugfs support"
depends on WCN36XX
- ---help---
+ help
Enabled debugfs support
If unsure, say Y to make it easier to debug problems.
depends on CFG80211
depends on PCI
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for wireless adapter based on
wil6210 chip by Wilocity. It supports operation on the
60 GHz band, covered by the IEEE802.11ad standard.
bool "Use Clear-On-Read mode for ISR registers for wil6210"
depends on WIL6210
default y
- ---help---
+ help
ISR registers on wil6210 chip may operate in either
COR (Clear-On-Read) or W1C (Write-1-to-Clear) mode.
For production code, use COR (say y); is default since
depends on WIL6210
depends on EVENT_TRACING
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable tracepoints for the wil6210 driver
using the kernel tracing infrastructure. Select this
option if you are interested in debugging the driver.
depends on WIL6210
depends on DEBUG_FS
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable wil6210 debugfs support, using the
kernel debugfs infrastructure. Select this
option if you are interested in debugging the driver.
config WLAN_VENDOR_ATMEL
bool "Atmel devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select WEXT_PRIV
select FW_LOADER
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
config PCI_ATMEL
tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
depends on ATMEL && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
Atmel at76c506 chip.
select WIRELESS_EXT
select FW_LOADER
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
tristate "Atmel at76c503/at76c505/at76c505a USB cards"
depends on MAC80211 && USB
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for USB Wireless devices using Atmel at76c503,
at76c505 or at76c505a chips.
config WLAN_VENDOR_BROADCOM
bool "Broadcom devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select SSB if B43_SSB
select FW_LOADER
select CORDIC
- ---help---
+ help
b43 is a driver for the Broadcom 43xx series wireless devices.
Check "lspci" for something like
bool "Broadcom 43xx SDIO device support"
depends on B43 && B43_SSB && SSB_SDIOHOST_POSSIBLE
select SSB_SDIOHOST
- ---help---
+ help
Broadcom 43xx device support for Soft-MAC SDIO devices.
With this config option you can drive Soft-MAC b43 cards with a
bool "Support for G-PHY (802.11g) devices"
depends on B43 && B43_SSB
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This PHY type can be found in the following chipsets:
PCI: BCM4306, BCM4311, BCM4318
SoC: BCM4712, BCM5352E
bool "Support for N-PHY (the main 802.11n series) devices"
depends on B43
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This PHY type can be found in the following chipsets:
PCI: BCM4321, BCM4322,
BCM43222, BCM43224, BCM43225,
bool "Support for LP-PHY (low-power 802.11g) devices"
depends on B43 && B43_SSB
default y
- ---help---
+ help
The LP-PHY is a low-power PHY built into some notebooks
and embedded devices. It supports 802.11a/b/g
(802.11a support is optional, and currently disabled).
bool "Support for HT-PHY (high throughput 802.11n) devices"
depends on B43 && B43_BCMA
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This PHY type with 3x3:3 MIMO can be found in the BCM4331 PCI chipset.
config B43_PHY_LCN
bool "Support for LCN-PHY devices (BROKEN)"
depends on B43 && BROKEN
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the LCN-PHY.
Say N, this is BROKEN and crashes driver.
config B43_PHY_AC
bool "Support for AC-PHY (802.11ac) devices (BROKEN)"
depends on B43 && B43_BCMA && BROKEN
- ---help---
+ help
This PHY type can be found in the following chipsets:
PCI: BCM4352, BCM4360
config B43_DEBUG
bool "Broadcom 43xx debugging"
depends on B43
- ---help---
+ help
Broadcom 43xx debugging.
This adds additional runtime sanity checks and statistics to the driver.
depends on SSB_POSSIBLE && MAC80211 && HAS_DMA
select SSB
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
b43legacy is a driver for 802.11b devices from Broadcom (BCM4301 and
BCM4303) and early model 802.11g chips (BCM4306 Ver. 2) used in the
Linksys WPC54G V1 PCMCIA devices.
bool "Broadcom 43xx-legacy debugging"
depends on B43LEGACY
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y, because this information will help you get the driver running.
This option generates a minimum of log output.
bool "DMA + PIO"
select B43LEGACY_DMA
select B43LEGACY_PIO
- ---help---
+ help
Include both, Direct Memory Access (DMA) and Programmed I/O (PIO)
data transfer modes. The mode actually used is selectable through
the module parameter "pio". With pio=0 as a module parameter, the
config B43LEGACY_DMA_MODE
bool "DMA (Direct Memory Access) only"
select B43LEGACY_DMA
- ---help---
+ help
Only include Direct Memory Access (DMA).
This reduces the size of the driver module, by omitting the PIO code.
config B43LEGACY_PIO_MODE
bool "PIO (Programmed I/O) only"
select B43LEGACY_PIO
- ---help---
+ help
Only include Programmed I/O (PIO).
This reduces the size of the driver module, by omitting the DMA code.
Please note that PIO transfers are slow (compared to DMA).
select BRCMUTIL
select FW_LOADER
select CORDIC
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for PCIe wireless adapters based on Broadcom
IEEE802.11n SoftMAC chipsets. It also has WLAN led support, which will
be available if you select BCMA_DRIVER_GPIO. If you choose to build a
config BRCM_TRACING
bool "Broadcom device tracing"
depends on BRCMSMAC || BRCMFMAC
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, the Broadcom wireless drivers will register
with ftrace to dump event information into the trace ringbuffer.
Tracing can be enabled at runtime to aid in debugging wireless
bool "Broadcom driver debug functions"
depends on BRCMSMAC || BRCMFMAC
select WANT_DEV_COREDUMP if BRCMFMAC
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this enables additional code for debug purposes.
config WLAN_VENDOR_CISCO
bool "Cisco devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER
select WEXT_SPY
select WEXT_PRIV
- ---help---
+ help
This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_AES
select CRYPTO_CTR
- ---help---
+ help
This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
config WLAN_VENDOR_INTEL
bool "Intel devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select FW_LOADER
select LIB80211
select LIBIPW
- ---help---
+ help
A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network
Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter.
config IPW2100_MONITOR
bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
depends on IPW2100
- ---help---
+ help
Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver.
With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
config IPW2100_DEBUG
bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module."
depends on IPW2100
- ---help---
+ help
This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100.
This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger. You can
select FW_LOADER
select LIB80211
select LIBIPW
- ---help---
+ help
A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
Connection adapters.
config IPW2200_MONITOR
bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
depends on IPW2200
- ---help---
+ help
Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2200 driver.
With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
bool "Enable creation of a RF radiotap promiscuous interface"
depends on IPW2200_MONITOR
select IPW2200_RADIOTAP
- ---help---
+ help
Enables the creation of a second interface prefixed 'rtap'.
This second interface will provide every received in radiotap
format.
config IPW2200_DEBUG
bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
depends on IPW2200
- ---help---
+ help
This option will enable low level debug tracing output for IPW2200.
Note, normal debug code is already compiled in. This low level
select LIB80211_CRYPT_WEP
select LIB80211_CRYPT_TKIP
select LIB80211_CRYPT_CCMP
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the hardware independent IEEE 802.11
networking stack. This component is deprecated in favor of the
mac80211 component.
config LIBIPW_DEBUG
bool "Full debugging output for the LIBIPW component"
depends on LIBIPW
- ---help---
+ help
This option will enable debug tracing output for the
libipw component.
tristate "Intel Wireless WiFi 4965AGN (iwl4965)"
depends on PCI && MAC80211
select IWLEGACY
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for
Select to build the driver supporting the:
tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection (iwl3945)"
depends on PCI && MAC80211
select IWLEGACY
- ---help---
+ help
Select to build the driver supporting the:
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection
config IWLEGACY_DEBUG
bool "Enable full debugging output in iwlegacy (iwl 3945/4965) drivers"
depends on IWLEGACY
- ---help---
+ help
This option will enable debug tracing output for the iwlegacy
drivers.
config IWLEGACY_DEBUGFS
bool "iwlegacy (iwl 3945/4965) debugfs support"
depends on IWLEGACY && MAC80211_DEBUGFS
- ---help---
+ help
Enable creation of debugfs files for the iwlegacy drivers. This
is a low-impact option that allows getting insight into the
driver's state at runtime.
tristate "Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN - Wireless-N/Advanced-N/Ultimate-N (iwlwifi) "
depends on PCI && HAS_IOMEM && CFG80211
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
Select to build the driver supporting the:
Intel Wireless WiFi Link Next-Gen AGN
config IWLWIFI_DEBUG
bool "Enable full debugging output in the iwlwifi driver"
- ---help---
+ help
This option will enable debug tracing output for the iwlwifi drivers
This will result in the kernel module being ~100k larger. You can
config IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS
bool "iwlwifi debugfs support"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUGFS
- ---help---
+ help
Enable creation of debugfs files for the iwlwifi drivers. This
is a low-impact option that allows getting insight into the
driver's state at runtime.
config WLAN_VENDOR_INTERSIL
bool "Intersil devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select WEXT_SPY
select WEXT_PRIV
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for FullMAC PCI/Cardbus prism54 devices. This
driver is now deprecated in favor for the SoftMAC driver, p54pci.
p54pci supports FullMAC PCI/Cardbus devices as well.
select LIB80211_CRYPT_WEP
select LIB80211_CRYPT_TKIP
select LIB80211_CRYPT_CCMP
- ---help---
+ help
Shared driver code for IEEE 802.11b wireless cards based on
Intersil Prism2/2.5/3 chipset. This driver supports so called
Host AP mode that allows the card to act as an IEEE 802.11
config HOSTAP_FIRMWARE
bool "Support downloading firmware images with Host AP driver"
depends on HOSTAP
- ---help---
+ help
Configure Host AP driver to include support for firmware image
download. This option by itself only enables downloading to the
volatile memory, i.e. the card RAM. This option is required to
config HOSTAP_FIRMWARE_NVRAM
bool "Support for non-volatile firmware download"
depends on HOSTAP_FIRMWARE
- ---help---
+ help
Allow Host AP driver to write firmware images to the non-volatile
card memory, i.e. flash memory that survives power cycling.
Enable this option if you want to be able to change card firmware
config HOSTAP_PLX
tristate "Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3 in PLX9052 PCI adaptors"
depends on PCI && HOSTAP
- ---help---
+ help
Host AP driver's version for Prism2/2.5/3 PC Cards in PLX9052 based
PCI adaptors.
config HOSTAP_PCI
tristate "Host AP driver for Prism2.5 PCI adaptors"
depends on PCI && HOSTAP
- ---help---
+ help
Host AP driver's version for Prism2.5 PCI adaptors.
"Host AP support for Prism2/2.5/3 IEEE 802.11b" is required for this
config HOSTAP_CS
tristate "Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3 PC Cards"
depends on PCMCIA && HOSTAP
- ---help---
+ help
Host AP driver's version for Prism2/2.5/3 PC Cards.
"Host AP support for Prism2/2.5/3 IEEE 802.11b" is required for this
select FW_LOADER
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC
- ---help---
+ help
A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based on the "Hermes" or
Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
config HERMES_PRISM
bool "Support Prism 2/2.5 chipset"
depends on HERMES
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to enable support for Prism 2 and 2.5 chipsets. These
chipsets are better handled by the hostap driver. This driver
bool "Cache Hermes firmware on driver initialisation"
depends on HERMES
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to cache any firmware required by the Hermes drivers
on startup. The firmware will remain cached until the
driver is unloaded. The cache uses 64K of RAM.
config PCMCIA_HERMES
tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
depends on PCMCIA && HERMES && HAS_IOPORT_MAP
- ---help---
+ help
A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
depends on PCMCIA && HERMES && HAS_IOPORT_MAP
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
tristate "Agere Orinoco USB support"
depends on USB && HERMES
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for USB versions of the Agere Orinoco card.
depends on MAC80211
select FW_LOADER
select CRC_CCITT
- ---help---
+ help
This is common code for isl38xx/stlc45xx based modules.
This module does nothing by itself - the USB/PCI/SPI front-ends
also need to be enabled in order to support any devices.
tristate "Prism54 USB support"
depends on P54_COMMON && USB
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for USB isl38xx based wireless cards.
These devices require softmac firmware which can be found at
config P54_PCI
tristate "Prism54 PCI support"
depends on P54_COMMON && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for PCI isl38xx based wireless cards.
This driver supports most devices that are supported by the
fullmac prism54 driver plus many devices which are not
config P54_SPI
tristate "Prism54 SPI (stlc45xx) support"
depends on P54_COMMON && SPI_MASTER
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for stlc4550 or stlc4560 based wireless chips
such as Nokia's N800/N810 Portable Internet Tablet.
bool "Include fallback EEPROM blob"
depends on P54_SPI
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Unlike the PCI or USB devices, the SPI variants don't have
a dedicated EEPROM chip to store all device specific values
for calibration, country and interface settings.
config WLAN_VENDOR_MARVELL
bool "Marvell devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config MWL8K
tristate "Marvell 88W8xxx PCI/PCIe Wireless support"
depends on MAC80211 && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Marvell TOPDOG 802.11 wireless cards.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
select WEXT_SPY
select LIB80211
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
A library for Marvell Libertas 8xxx devices.
config LIBERTAS_USB
tristate "Marvell Libertas 8388 USB 802.11b/g cards"
depends on LIBERTAS && USB
- ---help---
+ help
A driver for Marvell Libertas 8388 USB devices.
config LIBERTAS_CS
tristate "Marvell Libertas 8385 CompactFlash 802.11b/g cards"
depends on LIBERTAS && PCMCIA && HAS_IOPORT_MAP
- ---help---
+ help
A driver for Marvell Libertas 8385 CompactFlash devices.
config LIBERTAS_SDIO
tristate "Marvell Libertas 8385/8686/8688 SDIO 802.11b/g cards"
depends on LIBERTAS && MMC
- ---help---
+ help
A driver for Marvell Libertas 8385/8686/8688 SDIO devices.
config LIBERTAS_SPI
tristate "Marvell Libertas 8686 SPI 802.11b/g cards"
depends on LIBERTAS && SPI
- ---help---
+ help
A driver for Marvell Libertas 8686 SPI devices.
config LIBERTAS_DEBUG
bool "Enable full debugging output in the Libertas module."
depends on LIBERTAS
- ---help---
+ help
Debugging support.
config LIBERTAS_MESH
tristate "Marvell 8xxx Libertas WLAN driver support with thin firmware"
depends on MAC80211
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
A library for Marvell Libertas 8xxx devices using thinfirm.
config LIBERTAS_THINFIRM_DEBUG
bool "Enable full debugging output in the Libertas thin firmware module."
depends on LIBERTAS_THINFIRM
- ---help---
+ help
Debugging support.
config LIBERTAS_THINFIRM_USB
tristate "Marvell Libertas 8388 USB 802.11b/g cards with thin firmware"
depends on LIBERTAS_THINFIRM && USB
- ---help---
+ help
A driver for Marvell Libertas 8388 USB devices using thinfirm.
config MWIFIEX
tristate "Marvell WiFi-Ex Driver"
depends on CFG80211
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for wireless adapters based on Marvell
802.11n/ac chipsets.
depends on MWIFIEX && MMC
select FW_LOADER
select WANT_DEV_COREDUMP
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for wireless adapters based on Marvell
8786/8787/8797/8887/8897/8977/8987/8997 chipsets with SDIO interface.
depends on MWIFIEX && PCI
select FW_LOADER
select WANT_DEV_COREDUMP
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for wireless adapters based on Marvell
8766/8897/8997 chipsets with PCIe interface.
tristate "Marvell WiFi-Ex Driver for USB8766/8797/8997"
depends on MWIFIEX && USB
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for wireless adapters based on Marvell
8797/8997 chipset with USB interface.
config WLAN_VENDOR_MEDIATEK
bool "MediaTek devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "MediaTek MT7601U (USB) support"
depends on MAC80211
depends on USB
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for MT7601U-based wireless USB dongles.
config WLAN_VENDOR_RALINK
bool "Ralink devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
menuconfig RT2X00
tristate "Ralink driver support"
depends on MAC80211 && HAS_DMA
- ---help---
+ help
This will enable the support for the Ralink drivers,
developed in the rt2x00 project <http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com>.
select RT2X00_LIB_MMIO
select RT2X00_LIB_PCI
select EEPROM_93CX6
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt2400 wireless chipset family.
Supported chips: RT2460.
select RT2X00_LIB_MMIO
select RT2X00_LIB_PCI
select EEPROM_93CX6
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt2500 wireless chipset family.
Supported chips: RT2560.
select RT2X00_LIB_CRYPTO
select CRC_ITU_T
select EEPROM_93CX6
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt2501 wireless chipset family.
Supported chips: RT2561, RT2561S & RT2661.
select RT2X00_LIB_CRYPTO
select CRC_CCITT
select EEPROM_93CX6
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt27xx/rt28xx/rt30xx wireless chipset family.
Supported chips: RT2760, RT2790, RT2860, RT2880, RT2890, RT3052,
RT3090, RT3091 & RT3092
config RT2800PCI_RT33XX
bool "rt2800pci - Include support for rt33xx devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt33xx wireless chipset family to the
rt2800pci driver.
Supported chips: RT3390
config RT2800PCI_RT35XX
bool "rt2800pci - Include support for rt35xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt35xx wireless chipset family to the
rt2800pci driver.
Supported chips: RT3060, RT3062, RT3562, RT3592
config RT2800PCI_RT53XX
bool "rt2800pci - Include support for rt53xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt53xx wireless chipset family to the
rt2800pci driver.
Supported chips: RT5390
config RT2800PCI_RT3290
bool "rt2800pci - Include support for rt3290 devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt3290 wireless chipset family to the
rt2800pci driver.
Supported chips: RT3290
depends on USB
select RT2X00_LIB_USB
select RT2X00_LIB_CRYPTO
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt2500 wireless chipset family.
Supported chips: RT2571 & RT2572.
select RT2X00_LIB_FIRMWARE
select RT2X00_LIB_CRYPTO
select CRC_ITU_T
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt2501 wireless chipset family.
Supported chips: RT2571W, RT2573 & RT2671.
select RT2X00_LIB_FIRMWARE
select RT2X00_LIB_CRYPTO
select CRC_CCITT
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt27xx/rt28xx/rt30xx wireless chipset family.
Supported chips: RT2770, RT2870 & RT3070, RT3071 & RT3072
config RT2800USB_RT33XX
bool "rt2800usb - Include support for rt33xx devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt33xx wireless chipset family to the
rt2800usb driver.
Supported chips: RT3370
config RT2800USB_RT35XX
bool "rt2800usb - Include support for rt35xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt35xx wireless chipset family to the
rt2800usb driver.
Supported chips: RT3572
config RT2800USB_RT3573
bool "rt2800usb - Include support for rt3573 devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for RT3573 chipset based wireless USB devices
in the rt2800usb driver.
config RT2800USB_RT53XX
bool "rt2800usb - Include support for rt53xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt53xx wireless chipset family to the
rt2800usb driver.
Supported chips: RT5370
config RT2800USB_RT55XX
bool "rt2800usb - Include support for rt55xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt55xx wireless chipset family to the
rt2800usb driver.
Supported chips: RT5572
config RT2800USB_UNKNOWN
bool "rt2800usb - Include support for unknown (USB) devices"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for rt2800usb devices that are known to
have a rt28xx family compatible chipset, but for which the exact
chipset is unknown.
select RT2X00_LIB_FIRMWARE
select RT2800_LIB
select RT2800_LIB_MMIO
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for Ralink WiSoC devices.
Supported chips: RT2880, RT3050, RT3052, RT3350, RT3352.
config RT2X00_LIB_DEBUGFS
bool "Ralink debugfs support"
depends on RT2X00_LIB && MAC80211_DEBUGFS
- ---help---
+ help
Enable creation of debugfs files for the rt2x00 drivers.
These debugfs files support both reading and writing of the
most important register types of the rt2x00 hardware.
config RT2X00_DEBUG
bool "Ralink debug output"
depends on RT2X00_LIB
- ---help---
+ help
Enable debugging output for all rt2x00 modules
endif
config WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK
bool "Realtek devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Realtek 8180/8185/8187SE PCI support"
depends on MAC80211 && PCI
select EEPROM_93CX6
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for RTL8180, RTL8185 and RTL8187SE based cards.
These are PCI based chips found in cards such as:
tristate "Realtek 8187 and 8187B USB support"
depends on MAC80211 && USB
select EEPROM_93CX6
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for RTL8187 and RTL8187B based cards.
These are USB based chips found in devices such as:
config RTL8XXXU
tristate "RTL8723AU/RTL8188[CR]U/RTL819[12]CU (mac80211) support"
depends on MAC80211 && USB
- ---help---
+ help
This is an alternative driver for various Realtek RTL8XXX
parts written to utilize the Linux mac80211 stack.
The driver is known to work with a number of RTL8723AU,
config RTL8XXXU_UNTESTED
bool "Include support for untested Realtek 8xxx USB devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on RTL8XXXU
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables detection of Realtek 8723/8188/8191/8192 WiFi
USB devices which have not been tested directly by the driver
author or reported to be working by third parties.
tristate "Realtek rtlwifi family of devices"
depends on MAC80211 && (PCI || USB)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option will enable support for the Realtek mac80211-based
wireless drivers. Drivers rtl8192ce, rtl8192cu, rtl8192se, rtl8192de,
rtl8723ae, rtl8723be, rtl8188ee, rtl8192ee, and rtl8821ae share
select RTL8192C_COMMON
select RTLWIFI
select RTLWIFI_PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for Realtek RTL8192CE/RTL8188CE 802.11n PCIe
wireless network adapters.
depends on PCI
select RTLWIFI
select RTLWIFI_PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for Realtek RTL8192SE/RTL8191SE 802.11n PCIe
wireless network adapters.
depends on PCI
select RTLWIFI
select RTLWIFI_PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for Realtek RTL8192DE/RTL8188DE 802.11n PCIe
wireless network adapters.
select RTLWIFI_PCI
select RTL8723_COMMON
select RTLBTCOEXIST
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for Realtek RTL8723AE 802.11n PCIe
wireless network adapters.
select RTLWIFI_PCI
select RTL8723_COMMON
select RTLBTCOEXIST
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for Realtek RTL8723BE 802.11n PCIe
wireless network adapters.
depends on PCI
select RTLWIFI
select RTLWIFI_PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for Realtek RTL8188EE 802.11n PCIe
wireless network adapters.
select RTLWIFI
select RTLWIFI_PCI
select RTLBTCOEXIST
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for Realtek RTL8192EE 802.11n PCIe
wireless network adapters.
select RTLWIFI
select RTLWIFI_PCI
select RTLBTCOEXIST
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for Realtek RTL8821AE/RTL8812AE 802.11ac PCIe
wireless network adapters.
select RTLWIFI
select RTLWIFI_USB
select RTL8192C_COMMON
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for Realtek RTL8192CU/RTL8188CU 802.11n USB
wireless network adapters.
bool "Debugging output for rtlwifi driver family"
depends on RTLWIFI
default y
- ---help---
+ help
To use the module option that sets the dynamic-debugging level for,
the front-end driver, this parameter must be "Y". For memory-limited
systems, choose "N". If in doubt, choose "Y".
config WLAN_VENDOR_RSI
bool "Redpine Signals Inc devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
tristate "Redpine Signals Inc 91x WLAN driver support"
select BT_HCIRSI if RSI_COEX
depends on MAC80211
- ---help---
+ help
This option enabes support for RSI 1x1 devices.
Select M (recommended), if you have a RSI 1x1 wireless module.
bool "Redpine Signals Inc debug support"
depends on RSI_91X
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y, if you would like to enable debug support. This option
creates debugfs entries
tristate "Redpine Signals SDIO bus support"
depends on MMC && RSI_91X
default m
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the SDIO bus support in rsi drivers.
Select M (recommended), if you have a RSI 1x1 wireless module.
tristate "Redpine Signals USB bus support"
depends on USB && RSI_91X
default m
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the USB bus support in rsi drivers.
Select M (recommended), if you have a RSI 1x1 wireless module.
depends on BT && RSI_91X
depends on !(BT=m && RSI_91X=y)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the WLAN BT coex support in rsi drivers.
Select M (recommended), if you have want to use this feature
and you have RS9113 module.
config WLAN_VENDOR_ST
bool "STMicroelectronics devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
config WLAN_VENDOR_TI
bool "Texas Instrument devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
bool "TI WiLink platform data"
depends on WLCORE_SDIO || WL1251_SDIO
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Small platform data bit needed to pass data to the sdio modules.
depends on MAC80211
select FW_LOADER
select CRC7
- ---help---
+ help
This will enable TI wl1251 driver support. The drivers make
use of the mac80211 stack.
config WL1251_SPI
tristate "TI wl1251 SPI support"
depends on WL1251 && SPI_MASTER
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the SPI interface of adapters using
TI wl1251 chipset. Select this if your platform is using
the SPI bus.
config WL1251_SDIO
tristate "TI wl1251 SDIO support"
depends on WL1251 && MMC
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the SDIO interface of adapters using
TI wl1251 chipset. Select this if your platform is using
the SDIO bus.
tristate "TI wl12xx support"
depends on MAC80211
select WLCORE
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for wireless adapters based on TI wl1271,
wl1273, wl1281 and wl1283 chipsets. This module does *not* include
support for wl1251. For wl1251 support, use the separate homonymous
tristate "TI wl18xx support"
depends on MAC80211
select WLCORE
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for wireless adapters based on TI
WiLink 8 chipsets.
tristate "TI wlcore support"
depends on MAC80211
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This module contains the main code for TI WLAN chips. It abstracts
hardware-specific differences among different chipset families.
Each chipset family needs to implement its own lower-level module
tristate "TI wlcore SPI support"
depends on WLCORE && SPI_MASTER && OF
select CRC7
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the SPI interface of adapters using
TI WLAN chipsets. Select this if your platform is using
the SPI bus.
config WLCORE_SDIO
tristate "TI wlcore SDIO support"
depends on WLCORE && MMC
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the SDIO interface of adapters using
TI WLAN chipsets. Select this if your platform is using
the SDIO bus.
config WLAN_VENDOR_ZYDAS
bool "ZyDAS devices"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
select WIRELESS_EXT
select WEXT_PRIV
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you want to use wireless LAN adapters based on the ZyDAS
ZD1201 chip.
tristate "ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B USB-wireless support"
depends on USB && MAC80211
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B wireless
chip, present in many USB-wireless adapters.
config ZD1211RW_DEBUG
bool "ZyDAS ZD1211 debugging"
depends on ZD1211RW
- ---help---
+ help
ZD1211 debugging messages. Choosing Y will result in additional debug
messages being saved to your kernel logs, which may help debug any
problems.
depends on NFC_NCI
select CRC_CCITT
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Intel Fields Peak NFC controller core driver.
This is a driver based on the NCI NFC kernel layers.
config NFC_FDP_I2C
tristate "NFC FDP i2c support"
depends on NFC_FDP && I2C
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the Intel Fields Peak NFC controller
i2c interface.
Select this if your platform is using the i2c bus.
config NFC_MICROREAD
tristate
select CRC_CCITT
- ---help---
+ help
This module contains the main code for Inside Secure microread
NFC chipsets. It implements the chipset HCI logic and hooks into
the NFC kernel APIs. Physical layers will register against it.
tristate "Inside Secure Microread device support (I2C)"
depends on NFC_HCI && I2C && NFC_SHDLC
select NFC_MICROREAD
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the i2c interface of adapters using
Inside microread chipsets. Select this if your platform is using
the i2c bus.
tristate "Inside Secure Microread device support (MEI)"
depends on NFC_HCI && NFC_MEI_PHY
select NFC_MICROREAD
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the mei interface of adapters using
Inside microread chipsets. Select this if your microread chipset
is handled by Intel's Management Engine Interface on your platform.
config NFC_NXP_NCI
tristate "NXP-NCI NFC driver"
depends on NFC_NCI
- ---help---
+ help
Generic core driver for NXP NCI chips such as the NPC100 (PN547),
NPC300 (PN548) or PN7150 families.
This is a driver based on the NCI NFC kernel layers and
config NFC_NXP_NCI_I2C
tristate "NXP-NCI I2C support"
depends on NFC_NXP_NCI && I2C
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for an I2C interface to the NXP NCI
chips.
Select this if your platform is using the I2C bus.
tristate "NFC PN533 device support (USB)"
depends on USB
select NFC_PN533
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the NXP pn533 USB interface.
Select this if your platform is using the USB bus.
tristate "NFC PN533 device support (I2C)"
depends on I2C
select NFC_PN533
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the NXP pn533 I2C interface.
Select this if your platform is using the I2C bus.
tristate "NFC PN532 device support (UART)"
depends on SERIAL_DEV_BUS
select NFC_PN533
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the NXP pn532 UART interface.
Select this if your platform is using the UART bus.
config NFC_PN544
tristate
select CRC_CCITT
- ---help---
+ help
NXP PN544 core driver.
This is a driver based on the HCI NFC kernel layers and
will thus not work with NXP libnfc library.
tristate "NXP PN544 device support (I2C)"
depends on NFC_HCI && I2C && NFC_SHDLC
select NFC_PN544
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the NXP pn544 i2c interface.
Select this if your platform is using the i2c bus.
tristate "NXP PN544 device support (MEI)"
depends on NFC_HCI && NFC_MEI_PHY
select NFC_PN544
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the mei interface of adapters using
NXP pn544 chipsets. Select this if your pn544 chipset
is handled by Intel's Management Engine Interface on your platform.
config NFC_S3FWRN5
tristate
select CRYPTO
- ---help---
+ help
Core driver for Samsung S3FWRN5 NFC chip. Contains core utilities
of chip. It's intended to be used by PHYs to avoid duplicating lots
of common code.
depends on NFC_NCI && I2C
select NFC_S3FWRN5
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for an I2C interface to the S3FWRN5 chip.
Select this if your platform is using the I2C bus.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config NFC_ST_NCI
tristate
- ---help---
+ help
STMicroelectronics NFC NCI chips core driver. It implements the chipset
NCI logic and hooks into the NFC kernel APIs. Physical layers will
register against it.
tristate "STMicroelectronics ST NCI NFC driver (I2C)"
depends on NFC_NCI && I2C
select NFC_ST_NCI
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for an I2C interface to the
STMicroelectronics NFC NCI chips family.
Select this if your platform is using the i2c bus.
tristate "STMicroelectronics ST NCI NFC driver (SPI)"
depends on NFC_NCI && SPI
select NFC_ST_NCI
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for an SPI interface to the
STMicroelectronics NFC NCI chips family.
Select this if your platform is using the spi bus.
config NFC_ST21NFCA
tristate
select CRC_CCITT
- ---help---
+ help
STMicroelectronics ST21NFCA core driver. It implements the chipset
HCI logic and hooks into the NFC kernel APIs. Physical layers will
register against it.
tristate "STMicroelectronics ST21NFCA NFC driver (I2C)"
depends on NFC_HCI && I2C && NFC_SHDLC
select NFC_ST21NFCA
- ---help---
+ help
This module adds support for the STMicroelectronics st21nfca i2c interface.
Select this if your platform is using the i2c bus.
tristate "NVM Express block device"
depends on PCI && BLOCK
select NVME_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
The NVM Express driver is for solid state drives directly
connected to the PCI or PCI Express bus. If you know you
don't have one of these, it is safe to answer N.
config NVME_MULTIPATH
bool "NVMe multipath support"
depends on NVME_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for multipath access to NVMe
subsystems. If this option is enabled only a single
/dev/nvmeXnY device will show up for each NVMe namespaces,
config PM_OPP
bool
select SRCU
- ---help---
+ help
SOCs have a standard set of tuples consisting of frequency and
voltage pairs that the device will support per voltage domain. This
is called Operating Performance Point or OPP. The actual definitions
menuconfig PARPORT
tristate "Parallel port support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to use devices connected to your machine's parallel port
(the connector at the computer with 25 holes), e.g. printer, ZIP
drive, PLIP link (Parallel Line Internet Protocol is mainly used to
config VMD
depends on PCI_MSI && X86_64 && SRCU
tristate "Intel Volume Management Device Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Adds support for the Intel Volume Management Device (VMD). VMD is a
secondary PCI host bridge that allows PCI Express root ports,
and devices attached to them, to be removed from the default
menuconfig HOTPLUG_PCI
bool "Support for PCI Hotplug"
depends on PCI && SYSFS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a motherboard with a PCI Hotplug controller.
This allows you to add and remove PCI cards while the machine is
powered up and running.
menuconfig PCCARD
tristate "PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) support"
depends on !UML
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to attach PCMCIA- or PC-cards to your Linux
computer. These are credit-card size devices such as network cards,
modems or hard drives often used with laptops computers. There are
tristate "16-bit PCMCIA support"
select CRC32
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for 16-bit PCMCIA cards. Most older
PC-cards are such 16-bit PCMCIA cards, so unless you know you're
only using 32-bit CardBus cards, say Y or M here.
bool "32-bit CardBus support"
depends on PCI
default y
- ---help---
+ help
CardBus is a bus mastering architecture for PC-cards, which allows
for 32 bit PC-cards (the original PCMCIA standard specifies only
a 16 bit wide bus). Many newer PC-cards are actually CardBus cards.
depends on PCI
select CARDBUS if !EXPERT
select PCCARD_NONSTATIC if PCMCIA != n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for CardBus host bridges. Virtually
all modern PCMCIA bridges are CardBus compatible. A "bridge" is
the hardware inside your computer that PCMCIA cards are plugged
menuconfig CHROME_PLATFORMS
bool "Platform support for Chrome hardware"
depends on X86 || ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for platform support for
various Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. This option alone does
not add any kernel code.
config CHROMEOS_LAPTOP
tristate "Chrome OS Laptop"
depends on I2C && DMI && X86
- ---help---
+ help
This driver instantiates i2c and smbus devices such as
light sensors and touchpads.
config CHROMEOS_PSTORE
tristate "Chrome OS pstore support"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
This module instantiates the persistent storage on x86 ChromeOS
devices. It can be used to store away console logs and crash
information across reboots.
tristate "ChromeOS Embedded Controller (SPI)"
depends on CROS_EC && SPI
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you get support for talking to the ChromeOS EC
through a SPI bus, using a byte-level protocol. Since the EC's
response time cannot be guaranteed, we support ignoring
menuconfig MELLANOX_PLATFORM
bool "Platform support for Mellanox hardware"
depends on X86 || ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for platform support for
Mellanox systems. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
depends on REGMAP
depends on HWMON
depends on I2C
- ---help---
+ help
This driver handles hot-plug events for the power suppliers, power
cables and fans on the wide range Mellanox IB and Ethernet systems.
bool "X86 Platform Specific Device Drivers"
default y
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for device drivers for various
x86 platforms, including vendor-specific laptop extension drivers.
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
tristate "WMI embedded Binary MOF driver"
depends on ACPI_WMI
default ACPI_WMI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to read a firmware-embedded
WMI Binary MOF data. Using this requires userspace tools and may be
rather tedious.
depends on LEDS_CLASS
depends on NEW_LEDS
depends on ACPI_WMI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for controlling Alienware BIOS driven
features. It exposes an interface for controlling the AlienFX
zones on Alienware machines that don't contain a dedicated AlienFX
config INTEL_WMI_THUNDERBOLT
tristate "Intel WMI thunderbolt force power driver"
depends on ACPI_WMI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to use the WMI interface on select
systems to force the power control of Intel Thunderbolt controllers.
This is useful for updating the firmware when devices are not plugged
config MXM_WMI
tristate "WMI support for MXM Laptop Graphics"
depends on ACPI_WMI
- ---help---
+ help
MXM is a standard for laptop graphics cards, the WMI interface
is required for switchable nvidia graphics machines
tristate "Acer Aspire One temperature and fan driver"
depends on ACPI && THERMAL
select THERMAL_GOV_BANG_BANG
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for Acer Aspire One netbooks. It allows to access
the temperature sensor and to control the fan.
tristate "Acer Wireless Radio Control Driver"
depends on ACPI
depends on INPUT
- ---help---
+ help
The Acer Wireless Radio Control handles the airplane mode hotkey
present on new Acer laptops.
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
# Acer WMI depends on ACPI_VIDEO when ACPI is enabled
select ACPI_VIDEO if ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for newer Acer (and Wistron) laptops. It adds
wireless radio and bluetooth control, and on some laptops,
exposes the mail LED and LCD backlight.
depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
depends on BACKLIGHT_APPLE=n || BACKLIGHT_APPLE
depends on ACPI_VIDEO=n || ACPI_VIDEO
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides support for the gmux device found on many
Apple laptops, which controls the display mux for the hybrid
graphics as well as the backlight. Currently only backlight
depends on RFKILL || RFKILL = n
depends on ACPI_VIDEO || ACPI_VIDEO = n
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for Asus laptops, Lenovo SL and the Pegatron
Lucid tablet. It may also support some MEDION, JVC or VICTOR
laptops. It makes all the extra buttons generate standard
depends on INPUT
select NEW_LEDS
select LEDS_CLASS
- ---help---
+ help
The Asus Wireless Radio Control handles the airplane mode hotkey
present on some Asus laptops.
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
select LEDS_CLASS
select NEW_LEDS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a WMI aware Asus laptop (like Eee PCs or new
Asus Notebooks).
tristate "Asus Notebook WMI Driver"
depends on ASUS_WMI
depends on SERIO_I8042 || SERIO_I8042 = n
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for newer Asus notebooks. It adds extra features
like wireless radio and bluetooth control, leds, hotkeys, backlight...
select LEDS_CLASS
select NEW_LEDS
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the Fn-Fx keys on Eee PC laptops.
It also gives access to some extra laptop functionalities like
config EEEPC_WMI
tristate "Eee PC WMI Driver"
depends on ASUS_WMI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for newer Eee PC laptops. It adds extra features
like wireless radio and bluetooth control, leds, hotkeys, backlight...
tristate "Dell SMBIOS driver"
depends on DCDBAS || DCDBAS=n
depends on ACPI_WMI || ACPI_WMI=n
- ---help---
+ help
This provides support for the Dell SMBIOS calling interface.
If you have a Dell computer you should enable this option.
depends on ACPI_WMI
select DELL_WMI_DESCRIPTOR
depends on DELL_SMBIOS
- ---help---
+ help
This provides an implementation for the Dell SMBIOS calling interface
communicated over ACPI-WMI.
default y
depends on DCDBAS
depends on DELL_SMBIOS
- ---help---
+ help
This provides an implementation for the Dell SMBIOS calling interface
communicated over SMI/SMM.
select NEW_LEDS
select LEDS_TRIGGERS
select LEDS_TRIGGER_AUDIO
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for rfkill and backlight control to Dell
laptops (except for some models covered by the Compal driver).
depends on ACPI
depends on INPUT
depends on RFKILL
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to support Dell Airplane Mode Switch ACPI
device on Dell laptops. Sometimes it has names: DELLABCE or DELRBTN.
This driver register rfkill device or input hotkey device depending
config DELL_SMO8800
tristate "Dell Latitude freefall driver (ACPI SMO88XX)"
depends on ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to support SMO88XX freefall devices
on Dell Latitude laptops.
depends on DELL_SMBIOS
select DELL_WMI_DESCRIPTOR
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to support WMI-based hotkeys on Dell laptops.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will
depends on ACPI_WMI
depends on INPUT
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to support WMI-based hotkeys on Dell
All-In-One machines.
tristate "Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo rfkill support"
depends on RFKILL
depends on SERIO_I8042
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for enabling wifi on some Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo
laptops.
depends on ACPI_VIDEO || ACPI_VIDEO = n
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
select LEDS_CLASS
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for laptops built by Fujitsu:
* P2xxx/P5xxx/S6xxx/S7xxx series Lifebooks
tristate "Fujitsu Tablet Extras"
depends on ACPI
depends on INPUT
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for tablets built by Fujitsu:
* Lifebook P1510/P1610/P1620/Txxxx
tristate "GPD Pocket Fan Controller support"
depends on ACPI
depends on THERMAL
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for the GPD Pocket vendor specific FAN02501 ACPI device
which controls the fan speed on the GPD Pocket.
depends on !X86_64
depends on ACPI
depends on ACPI_WMI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the WMI extensions (wireless and bluetooth power
control) of the HP Compaq TC1100 tablet.
config IBM_RTL
tristate "Device driver to enable PRTL support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for IBM Premium Real Time Mode (PRTM).
This module will allow you the enter and exit PRTM in the BIOS via
sysfs on platforms that support this feature. System in PRTM will
select LEDS_CLASS
select LEDS_TRIGGERS
select LEDS_TRIGGER_AUDIO
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptops. It adds
support for Fn-Fx key combinations, Bluetooth control, video
output switching, ThinkLight control, UltraBay eject and more.
depends on SND
depends on SND = y || THINKPAD_ACPI = SND
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Enables monitoring of the built-in console audio output control
(headphone and speakers), which is operated by the mute and (in
some ThinkPad models) volume hotkeys.
config THINKPAD_ACPI_DEBUGFACILITIES
bool "Maintainer debug facilities"
depends on THINKPAD_ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
Enables extra stuff in the thinkpad-acpi which is completely useless
for normal use. Read the driver source to find out what it does.
config THINKPAD_ACPI_DEBUG
bool "Verbose debug mode"
depends on THINKPAD_ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
Enables extra debugging information, at the expense of a slightly
increase in driver size.
config THINKPAD_ACPI_UNSAFE_LEDS
bool "Allow control of important LEDs (unsafe)"
depends on THINKPAD_ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
Overriding LED state on ThinkPads can mask important
firmware alerts (like critical battery condition), or misled
the user into damaging the hardware (undocking or ejecting
bool "Video output control support"
depends on THINKPAD_ACPI
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Allows the thinkpad_acpi driver to provide an interface to control
the various video output ports.
bool "Support NVRAM polling for hot keys"
depends on THINKPAD_ACPI
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Some thinkpad models benefit from NVRAM polling to detect a few of
the hot key press events. If you know your ThinkPad model does not
need to do NVRAM polling to support any of the hot keys you use,
depends on CHARGER_BQ24190=y || (CHARGER_BQ24190=m && m)
depends on USB_ROLES_INTEL_XHCI=y || (USB_ROLES_INTEL_XHCI=m && m)
depends on TYPEC_MUX_PI3USB30532=y || (TYPEC_MUX_PI3USB30532=m && m)
- ---help---
+ help
This driver add support for the INT33FE ACPI device found on
some Intel Cherry Trail devices.
tristate "Intel ACPI INT0002 Virtual GPIO driver"
depends on GPIOLIB && ACPI
select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
- ---help---
+ help
Some peripherals on Bay Trail and Cherry Trail platforms signal a
Power Management Event (PME) to the Power Management Controller (PMC)
to wakeup the system. When this happens software needs to explicitly
tristate "Thermal Management driver for Intel menlow platform"
depends on ACPI_THERMAL
select THERMAL
- ---help---
+ help
ACPI thermal management enhancement driver on
Intel Menlow platform.
depends on ACPI
depends on ACPI_VIDEO || ACPI_VIDEO = n
depends on RFKILL && BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE && ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
Intel Oaktrail platform need this driver to provide interfaces to
enable/disable the Camera, WiFi, BT etc. devices. If in doubt, say Y
here; it will only load on supported platforms.
depends on DMI
depends on INPUT
depends on SPI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Surface 3.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will
config SURFACE_3_BUTTON
tristate "Power/home/volume buttons driver for Microsoft Surface 3 tablet"
depends on ACPI && KEYBOARD_GPIO && I2C
- ---help---
+ help
This driver handles the power/home/volume buttons on the Microsoft Surface 3 tablet.
config SURFACE_3_POWER_OPREGION
config SURFACE_PRO3_BUTTON
tristate "Power/home/volume buttons driver for Microsoft Surface Pro 3/4 tablet"
depends on ACPI && INPUT
- ---help---
+ help
This driver handles the power/home/volume buttons on the Microsoft Surface Pro 3/4 tablet.
config MSI_LAPTOP
depends on RFKILL
depends on INPUT && SERIO_I8042
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for laptops built by MSI (MICRO-STAR
INTERNATIONAL):
tristate "OLPC XO-1.5 ebook switch"
depends on OLPC || COMPILE_TEST
depends on ACPI && INPUT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the ebook switch on the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop.
This switch is triggered as the screen is rotated and folded down to
tristate "OLPC XO-1 software RF kill switch"
depends on OLPC || COMPILE_TEST
depends on RFKILL
- ---help---
+ help
Support for enabling/disabling the WLAN interface on the OLPC XO-1
laptop.
depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
select LEDS_CLASS
select NEW_LEDS
- ---help---
+ help
This module implements a driver for a wide range of different
Samsung laptops. It offers control over the different
function keys, wireless LED, LCD backlight level.
tristate "Samsung Q10 Extras"
depends on ACPI
select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides support for backlight control on Samsung Q10
and related laptops, including Dell Latitude X200.
depends on RFKILL || RFKILL = n
depends on IIO
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for access to certain system settings
on "legacy free" Toshiba laptops. These laptops can be recognized by
their lack of a BIOS setup menu and APM support.
tristate "Toshiba Bluetooth RFKill switch support"
depends on ACPI
depends on RFKILL || RFKILL = n
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for Bluetooth events for the RFKill
switch on modern Toshiba laptops with full ACPI support and
an RFKill switch.
config TOSHIBA_HAPS
tristate "Toshiba HDD Active Protection Sensor"
depends on ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for the built-in accelerometer
found on recent Toshiba laptops equipped with HID TOS620A
device.
depends on ACPI_WMI
depends on INPUT
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds hotkey monitoring support to some Toshiba models
that manage the hotkeys via WMI events.
depends on RFKILL
depends on HWMON
depends on POWER_SUPPLY
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for laptops built by Compal, and some models by
other brands (e.g. Dell, Toshiba).
depends on INPUT && ACPI
depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for access to backlight control and hotkeys
on Panasonic Let's Note laptops.
depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
depends on INPUT
depends on RFKILL
- ---help---
+ help
This mini-driver drives the SNC and SPIC devices present in the ACPI
BIOS of the Sony Vaio laptops.
config SONYPI_COMPAT
bool "Sonypi compatibility"
depends on SONY_LAPTOP
- ---help---
+ help
Build the sonypi driver compatibility code into the sony-laptop driver.
config SYSTEM76_ACPI
select INPUT_SPARSEKMAP
select LEDS_CLASS
select NEW_LEDS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver adds support for hotkeys found on Topstar laptops.
If you have a Topstar laptop, say Y or M here.
config MLX_PLATFORM
tristate "Mellanox Technologies platform support"
depends on I2C && REGMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables system support for the Mellanox Technologies
platform. The Mellanox systems provide data center networking
solutions based on Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) technology
bool "DMI based touchscreen configuration info"
depends on ACPI && DMI && I2C=y && TOUCHSCREEN_SILEAD
select EFI_EMBEDDED_FIRMWARE if EFI
- ---help---
+ help
Certain ACPI based tablets with e.g. Silead or Chipone touchscreens
do not have enough data in ACPI tables for the touchscreen driver to
handle the touchscreen properly, as OEMs expect the data to be baked
config INTEL_IMR
bool "Intel Isolated Memory Region support"
depends on X86_INTEL_QUARK && IOSF_MBI
- ---help---
+ help
This option provides a means to manipulate Isolated Memory Regions.
IMRs are a set of registers that define read and write access masks
to prohibit certain system agents from accessing memory with 1 KiB
config INTEL_IPS
tristate "Intel Intelligent Power Sharing"
depends on ACPI && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Intel Calpella platforms support dynamic power sharing between the
CPU and GPU, maximizing performance in a given TDP. This driver,
along with the CPU frequency and i915 drivers, provides that
config INTEL_RST
tristate "Intel Rapid Start Technology Driver"
depends on ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides support for modifying parameters on systems
equipped with Intel's Rapid Start Technology. When put in an ACPI
sleep state, these devices will wake after either a configured
config INTEL_SMARTCONNECT
tristate "Intel Smart Connect disabling driver"
depends on ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
Intel Smart Connect is a technology intended to permit devices to
update state by resuming for a short period of time at regular
intervals. If a user enables this functionality under Windows and
config INTEL_TURBO_MAX_3
bool "Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 enumeration driver"
depends on X86_64 && SCHED_MC_PRIO
- ---help---
+ help
This driver reads maximum performance ratio of each CPU and set up
the scheduler priority metrics. In this way scheduler can prefer
CPU with higher performance to schedule tasks.
depends on REGMAP
depends on MFD_INTEL_PMC_BXT
depends on INTEL_SOC_PMIC_BXTWC
- ---help---
+ help
Select this driver to use Intel BXT Whiskey Cove PMIC TMU feature.
This driver enables the alarm wakeup functionality in the TMU unit
of Whiskey Cove PMIC.
tristate "Intel Cherry Trail Dollar Cove TI power button driver"
depends on INTEL_SOC_PMIC_CHTDC_TI
depends on INPUT
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a power button driver driver for Dollar Cove TI
PMIC on Intel Cherry Trail devices.
tristate "Intel Merrifield Basin Cove power button driver"
depends on INTEL_SOC_PMIC_MRFLD
depends on INPUT
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a power button driver for Basin Cove PMIC
on Intel Merrifield devices.
config INTEL_PMC_CORE
tristate "Intel PMC Core driver"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
The Intel Platform Controller Hub for Intel Core SoCs provides access
to Power Management Controller registers via a PCI interface. This
driver can utilize debugging capabilities and supported features as
config INTEL_PUNIT_IPC
tristate "Intel P-Unit IPC Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides support for Intel P-Unit Mailbox IPC mechanism,
which is used to bridge the communications between kernel and P-Unit.
config INTEL_SCU_IPC_UTIL
tristate "Intel SCU IPC utility driver"
depends on INTEL_SCU
- ---help---
+ help
The IPC Util driver provides an interface with the SCU enabling
low level access for debug work and updating the firmware. Say
N unless you will be doing this on an Intel MID platform.
depends on X86_64
depends on MFD_INTEL_PMC_BXT
depends on INTEL_PUNIT_IPC
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides interfaces to configure and use
telemetry for INTEL SoC from APL onwards. It is also
used to get various SoC events and parameters
bool "Plug and Play support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
depends on ISA || ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
Plug and Play (PnP) is a standard for peripherals which allows those
peripherals to be configured by software, e.g. assign IRQ's or other
parameters. No jumpers on the cards are needed, instead the values
bool "Plug and Play BIOS support"
depends on ISA && X86_32
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Linux uses the PNPBIOS as defined in "Plug and Play BIOS
Specification Version 1.0A May 5, 1994" to autodetect built-in
mainboard resources (e.g. parallel port resources).
config PNPBIOS_PROC_FS
bool "Plug and Play BIOS /proc interface"
depends on PNPBIOS && PROC_FS
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here and to "/proc file system support", you will be
able to directly access the PNPBIOS. This includes resource
allocation, ESCD, and other PNPBIOS services. Using this
tristate "Intel RAPL Support via MSR Interface"
depends on X86 && IOSF_MBI
select INTEL_RAPL_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the Intel Running Average Power Limit (RAPL)
technology via MSR interface, which allows power limits to be enforced
and monitored on modern Intel processors (Sandy Bridge and later).
menuconfig PPS
tristate "PPS support"
- ---help---
+ help
PPS (Pulse Per Second) is a special pulse provided by some GPS
antennae. Userland can use it to get a high-precision time
reference.
depends on NETWORK_PHY_TIMESTAMPING
depends on PHYLIB
depends on PTP_1588_CLOCK
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the DP83640 PHYTER with IEEE 1588 features.
This driver adds support for using the DP83640 as a PTP
int "Discovery timeout duration (seconds)"
depends on RAPIDIO
default "30"
- ---help---
+ help
Amount of time a discovery node waits for a host to complete
enumeration before giving up.
config RAPIDIO_ENABLE_RX_TX_PORTS
bool "Enable RapidIO Input/Output Ports"
depends on RAPIDIO
- ---help---
+ help
The RapidIO specification describes a Output port transmit
enable and a Input port receive enable. The recommended state
for Input ports and Output ports should be disabled. When
tristate "IDT Tsi721 PCI Express SRIO Controller support"
depends on RAPIDIO && PCIEPORTBUS
default "n"
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for IDT Tsi721 PCI Express Serial RapidIO controller.
#
config RAPIDIO_TSI57X
tristate "IDT Tsi57x SRIO switches support"
- ---help---
+ help
Includes support for IDT Tsi57x family of serial RapidIO switches.
config RAPIDIO_CPS_XX
tristate "IDT CPS-xx SRIO switches support"
- ---help---
+ help
Includes support for IDT CPS-16/12/10/8 serial RapidIO switches.
config RAPIDIO_TSI568
tristate "Tsi568 SRIO switch support"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Includes support for IDT Tsi568 serial RapidIO switch.
config RAPIDIO_CPS_GEN2
tristate "IDT CPS Gen.2 SRIO switch support"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Includes support for ITD CPS Gen.2 serial RapidIO switches.
config RAPIDIO_RXS_GEN3
tristate "IDT RXS Gen.3 SRIO switch support"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Includes support for ITD RXS Gen.3 serial RapidIO switches.
config DISPLAY7SEG
tristate "7-Segment Display support"
depends on PCI && SPARC64
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the 7-segment display and LED present on
Sun Microsystems CompactPCI models CP1400 and CP1500.
default n
depends on BLOCK
depends on SCSI_MOD
- ---help---
+ help
Provides RAID
config SCSI
select SCSI_DMA if HAS_DMA
select SG_POOL
select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to use a SCSI hard disk, SCSI tape drive, SCSI CD-ROM or
any other SCSI device under Linux, say Y and make sure that you know
the name of your SCSI host adapter (the card inside your computer
bool "legacy /proc/scsi/ support"
depends on SCSI && PROC_FS
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for the various files in
/proc/scsi. In Linux 2.6 this has been superseded by
files in sysfs but many legacy applications rely on this.
tristate "SCSI disk support"
depends on SCSI
select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY_T10 if BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to use SCSI hard disks, Fibre Channel disks,
Serial ATA (SATA) or Parallel ATA (PATA) hard disks,
USB storage or the SCSI or parallel port version of
config CHR_DEV_ST
tristate "SCSI tape support"
depends on SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to use a SCSI tape drive under Linux, say Y and read the
SCSI-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, and
tristate "SCSI CDROM support"
depends on SCSI && BLK_DEV
select CDROM
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to use a CD or DVD drive attached to your computer
by SCSI, FireWire, USB or ATAPI, say Y and read the SCSI-HOWTO
and the CDROM-HOWTO at <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
config CHR_DEV_SG
tristate "SCSI generic support"
depends on SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to use SCSI scanners, synthesizers or CD-writers or just
about anything having "SCSI" in its name other than hard disks,
CD-ROMs or tapes, say Y here. These won't be supported by the kernel
config CHR_DEV_SCH
tristate "SCSI media changer support"
depends on SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for SCSI media changers. Most common devices are
tape libraries and MOD/CDROM jukeboxes. *Real* jukeboxes, you
don't need this for those tiny 6-slot cdrom changers. Media
config SCSI_LOGGING
bool "SCSI logging facility"
depends on SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
This turns on a logging facility that can be used to debug a number
of SCSI related problems.
depends on ISA && SCSI
select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
select CHECK_SIGNATURE
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the AHA-1510, AHA-1520, AHA-1522, and AHA-2825
SCSI host adapters. It also works for the AVA-1505, but the IRQ etc.
must be manually specified in this case.
config SCSI_AHA1542
tristate "Adaptec AHA1542 support"
depends on ISA && SCSI && ISA_DMA_API
- ---help---
+ help
This is support for a SCSI host adapter. It is explained in section
3.4 of the SCSI-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that Trantor was
config SCSI_AHA1740
tristate "Adaptec AHA1740 support"
depends on EISA && SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
This is support for a SCSI host adapter. It is explained in section
3.5 of the SCSI-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. If it doesn't work out
config SCSI_BUSLOGIC
tristate "BusLogic SCSI support"
depends on (PCI || ISA) && SCSI && ISA_DMA_API && VIRT_TO_BUS
- ---help---
+ help
This is support for BusLogic MultiMaster and FlashPoint SCSI Host
Adapters. Consult the SCSI-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, and the files
tristate "LibFC module"
depends on SCSI_FC_ATTRS
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Fibre Channel library module
config LIBFCOE
tristate "LibFCoE module"
depends on LIBFC
- ---help---
+ help
Library for Fibre Channel over Ethernet module
config FCOE
tristate "FCoE module"
depends on PCI
depends on LIBFCOE
- ---help---
+ help
Fibre Channel over Ethernet module
config FCOE_FNIC
config SCSI_GDTH
tristate "Intel/ICP (former GDT SCSI Disk Array) RAID Controller support"
depends on PCI && SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
Formerly called GDT SCSI Disk Array Controller Support.
This is a driver for RAID/SCSI Disk Array Controllers (EISA/ISA/PCI)
depends on PCI && SCSI
depends on X86
select SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the 6Gb/s SAS capabilities of the storage
control unit found in the Intel(R) C600 series chipset.
tristate "Generic NCR5380/53c400 SCSI ISA card support"
depends on ISA && SCSI && HAS_IOPORT_MAP
select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for old ISA card SCSI controllers based on a
NCR 5380, 53C80, 53C400, 53C400A, or DTC 436 device.
Most boards such as the Trantor T130 fit this category, as do
config SCSI_IPS
tristate "IBM ServeRAID support"
depends on PCI && SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
This is support for the IBM ServeRAID hardware RAID controllers.
See <http://www.developer.ibm.com/welcome/netfinity/serveraid.html>
and <http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?brand=5000008&lndocid=SERV-RAID>
config SCSI_PPA
tristate "IOMEGA parallel port (ppa - older drives)"
depends on SCSI && PARPORT_PC
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports older versions of IOMEGA's parallel port ZIP
drive (a 100 MB removable media device).
config SCSI_IMM
tristate "IOMEGA parallel port (imm - newer drives)"
depends on SCSI && PARPORT_PC
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports newer versions of IOMEGA's parallel port ZIP
drive (a 100 MB removable media device).
config SCSI_IZIP_EPP16
bool "ppa/imm option - Use slow (but safe) EPP-16"
depends on SCSI_PPA || SCSI_IMM
- ---help---
+ help
EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) is a standard for parallel ports which
allows them to act as expansion buses that can handle up to 64
peripheral devices.
config SCSI_STEX
tristate "Promise SuperTrak EX Series support"
depends on PCI && SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Promise SuperTrak EX series storage controllers.
Promise provides Linux RAID configuration utility for these
tristate "SYM53C8XX Version 2 SCSI support"
depends on PCI && SCSI
select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the whole NCR53C8XX/SYM53C8XX family of
PCI-SCSI controllers. It also supports the subset of LSI53C10XX
Ultra-160 controllers that are based on the SYM53C8XX SCRIPTS
int "DMA addressing mode"
depends on SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2
default "1"
- ---help---
+ help
This option only applies to PCI-SCSI chips that are PCI DAC
capable (875A, 895A, 896, 1010-33, 1010-66, 1000).
select FW_LOADER
select IRQ_POLL
select SGL_ALLOC
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the IBM Power Linux family RAID adapters.
This includes IBM pSeries 5712, 5703, 5709, and 570A, as well
as IBM iSeries 5702, 5703, 5709, and 570A.
int "default tagged command queue depth"
depends on SCSI_ZALON
default "8"
- ---help---
+ help
"Tagged command queuing" is a feature of SCSI-2 which improves
performance: the host adapter can send several SCSI commands to a
device's queue even if previous commands haven't finished yet.
int "maximum number of queued commands"
depends on SCSI_ZALON
default "32"
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows you to specify the maximum number of commands
that can be queued to any device, when tagged command queuing is
possible. The default value is 32. Minimum is 2, maximum is 64.
int "synchronous transfers frequency in MHz"
depends on SCSI_ZALON
default "20"
- ---help---
+ help
The SCSI Parallel Interface-2 Standard defines 5 classes of transfer
rates: FAST-5, FAST-10, FAST-20, FAST-40 and FAST-80. The numbers
are respectively the maximum data transfer rates in mega-transfers
config SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS
tristate "Qlogic FAS SCSI support"
depends on ISA && SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the ISA, VLB, and PCMCIA versions of the Qlogic
FastSCSI! cards as well as any other card based on the FASXX chip
(including the Control Concepts SCSI/IDE/SIO/PIO/FDC cards).
depends on NVME_TARGET_FC || NVME_TARGET_FC=n
depends on NVME_FC || NVME_FC=n
select CRC_T10DIF
- ---help---
+ help
This lpfc driver supports the Emulex LightPulse
Family of Fibre Channel PCI host adapters.
config SCSI_LPFC_DEBUG_FS
bool "Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel debugfs Support"
depends on SCSI_LPFC && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This makes debugging information from the lpfc driver
available via the debugfs filesystem.
tristate "Simple 53c710 SCSI support (Compaq, NCR machines)"
depends on EISA && SCSI
select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for NCR53c710 based SCSI host adapters.
It currently supports Compaq EISA cards.
config SCSI_DC395x
tristate "Tekram DC395(U/UW/F) and DC315(U) SCSI support"
depends on PCI && SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports PCI SCSI host adapters based on the ASIC
TRM-S1040 chip, e.g Tekram DC395(U/UW/F) and DC315(U) variants.
tristate "Tekram DC390(T) and Am53/79C974 SCSI support (new driver)"
depends on PCI && SCSI
select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports PCI SCSI host adapters based on the Am53C974A
chip, e.g. Tekram DC390(T), DawiControl 2974 and some onboard
PCscsi/PCnet (Am53/79C974) solutions.
tristate "Western Digital WD7193/7197/7296 support"
depends on PCI && SCSI
select EEPROM_93CX6
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for Western Digital WD7193, WD7197 and WD7296 PCI
SCSI controllers (based on WD33C296A chip).
config GVP11_SCSI
tristate "GVP Series II WD33C93A support"
depends on ZORRO && SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a Great Valley Products Series II SCSI controller,
answer Y. Also say Y if you have a later model of GVP SCSI
controller (such as the GVP A4008 or a Combo board). Otherwise,
tristate "Atari native SCSI support"
depends on ATARI && SCSI
select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
If you have an Atari with built-in NCR5380 SCSI controller (TT,
Falcon, ...) say Y to get it supported. Of course also, if you have
a compatible SCSI controller (e.g. for Medusa).
tristate "PMC SIERRA Linux MaxRAID adapter support"
depends on PCI && SCSI && NET
select SGL_ALLOC
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the PMC SIERRA MaxRAID adapters.
config SCSI_PM8001
int "Maximum number of TCQ commands per device"
depends on SCSI_AIC79XX
default "32"
- ---help---
+ help
Specify the number of commands you would like to allocate per SCSI
device when Tagged Command Queueing (TCQ) is enabled on that device.
int "Initial bus reset delay in milli-seconds"
depends on SCSI_AIC79XX
default "5000"
- ---help---
+ help
The number of milliseconds to delay after an initial bus reset.
The bus settle delay following all error recovery actions is
dictated by the SCSI layer and is not affected by this value.
tristate "Adaptec AIC7xxx Fast -> U160 support"
depends on (PCI || EISA) && SCSI
select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports all of Adaptec's Fast through Ultra 160 PCI
based SCSI controllers as well as the aic7770 based EISA and VLB
SCSI controllers (the 274x and 284x series). For AAA and ARO based
int "Maximum number of TCQ commands per device"
depends on SCSI_AIC7XXX
default "32"
- ---help---
+ help
Specify the number of commands you would like to allocate per SCSI
device when Tagged Command Queueing (TCQ) is enabled on that device.
int "Initial bus reset delay in milli-seconds"
depends on SCSI_AIC7XXX
default "5000"
- ---help---
+ help
The number of milliseconds to delay after an initial bus reset.
The bus settle delay following all error recovery actions is
dictated by the SCSI layer and is not affected by this value.
select ETHERNET
select NET_VENDOR_BROADCOM
select CNIC
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports FCoE offload for the QLogic devices.
select ETHERNET
select NET_VENDOR_BROADCOM
select CNIC
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports iSCSI offload for the QLogic NetXtreme II
devices.
select CHELSIO_T3
select CHELSIO_LIB
select SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports iSCSI offload for the Chelsio T3 devices.
select CHELSIO_T4
select CHELSIO_LIB
select SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports iSCSI offload for the Chelsio T4 devices.
config SCSI_ESAS2R
tristate "ATTO Technology's ExpressSAS RAID adapter driver"
depends on PCI && SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the ATTO ExpressSAS R6xx SAS/SATA RAID controllers.
select SCSI_SAS_ATTRS
select RAID_ATTRS
select IRQ_POLL
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports PCI-Express SAS 12Gb/s Host Adapters.
config SCSI_MPT2SAS_MAX_SGE
depends on PCI && SCSI && SCSI_MPT3SAS
default "128"
range 16 256
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows you to specify the maximum number of scatter-
gather entries per I/O. The driver default is 128, which matches
MAX_PHYS_SEGMENTS in most kernels. However in SuSE kernels this
depends on PCI && SCSI && SCSI_MPT3SAS
default "128"
range 16 256
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows you to specify the maximum number of scatter-
gather entries per I/O. The driver default is 128, which matches
MAX_PHYS_SEGMENTS in most kernels. However in SuSE kernels this
default n
select SCSI_MPT3SAS
depends on PCI && SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
Dummy config option for backwards compatiblity: configure the MPT3SAS
driver instead.
depends on LIBFCOE
select QED_LL2
select QED_FCOE
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports FCoE offload for the QLogic FastLinQ
41000 Series Converged Network Adapters.
select QED_OOO
select QED_ISCSI
select ISCSI_BOOT_SYSFS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports iSCSI offload for the QLogic FastLinQ
41000 Series Converged Network Adapters.
depends on NVME_FC || !NVME_FC
select FW_LOADER
select BTREE
- ---help---
+ help
This qla2xxx driver supports all QLogic Fibre Channel
PCI and PCIe host adapters.
depends on LIBFC
select BTREE
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable the TCM_QLA2XXX fabric module for QLogic 24xx+ series target mode HBAs
if TCM_QLA2XXX
config TCM_QLA2XXX_DEBUG
bool "TCM_QLA2XXX fabric module DEBUG mode for QLogic 24xx+ series target mode HBAs"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable the TCM_QLA2XXX fabric module DEBUG for QLogic 24xx+ series target mode HBAs
This will include code to enable the SCSI command jammer
endif
depends on PCI && SCSI && NET
select SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS
select ISCSI_BOOT_SYSFS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the QLogic 40xx (ISP4XXX), 8022 (ISP82XX)
and 8032 (ISP83XX) iSCSI host adapter family.
depends on PCI && SCSI && !S390
select SCSI_SAS_ATTRS
select RAID_ATTRS
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Microsemi PQI controllers.
<http://www.microsemi.com>
select PM_DEVFREQ
select DEVFREQ_GOV_SIMPLE_ONDEMAND
select NLS
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the support for UFS devices in Linux, say Y and make
sure that you know the name of your UFS host adapter (the card
inside your computer that "speaks" the UFS protocol, also
config SCSI_UFSHCD_PCI
tristate "PCI bus based UFS Controller support"
depends on SCSI_UFSHCD && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the PCI UFS Host Controller Interface. Select this if
you have UFS Host Controller with PCI Interface.
config SCSI_UFS_DWC_TC_PCI
tristate "DesignWare pci support using a G210 Test Chip"
depends on SCSI_UFSHCD_PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Synopsys Test Chip is a PHY for prototyping purposes.
If unsure, say N.
config SCSI_UFSHCD_PLATFORM
tristate "Platform bus based UFS Controller support"
depends on SCSI_UFSHCD
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the UFS host controller support. Select this if
you have an UFS controller on Platform bus.
config SCSI_UFS_DWC_TC_PLATFORM
tristate "DesignWare platform support using a G210 Test Chip"
depends on SCSI_UFSHCD_PLATFORM
- ---help---
+ help
Synopsys Test Chip is a PHY for prototyping purposes.
If unsure, say N.
config SCSI_UFS_HISI
tristate "Hisilicon specific hooks to UFS controller platform driver"
depends on (ARCH_HISI || COMPILE_TEST) && SCSI_UFSHCD_PLATFORM
- ---help---
+ help
This selects the Hisilicon specific additions to UFSHCD platform driver.
Select this if you have UFS controller on Hisilicon chipset.
menuconfig SFI
bool "SFI (Simple Firmware Interface) Support"
- ---help---
+ help
The Simple Firmware Interface (SFI) provides a lightweight method
for platform firmware to pass information to the operating system
via static tables in memory. Kernel SFI support is required to
config ASPEED_LPC_CTRL
depends on SOC_ASPEED && REGMAP && MFD_SYSCON
tristate "Aspeed ast2400/2500 HOST LPC to BMC bridge control"
- ---help---
+ help
Control Aspeed ast2400/2500 HOST LPC to BMC mappings through
ioctl()s, the driver also provides a read/write interface to a BMC ram
region where the host LPC read/write region can be buffered.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
menuconfig STAGING
bool "Staging drivers"
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows you to select a number of drivers that are
not of the "normal" Linux kernel quality level. These drivers
are placed here in order to get a wider audience to make use of
config GREYBUS_AUDIO
tristate "Greybus Audio Class driver"
depends on SOUND
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus Audio Class specification.
config GREYBUS_BOOTROM
tristate "Greybus Bootrom Class driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus Bootrom Class specification.
config GREYBUS_CAMERA
tristate "Greybus Camera Class driver"
depends on MEDIA_SUPPORT && LEDS_CLASS_FLASH && BROKEN
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus Camera Class specification.
config GREYBUS_FIRMWARE
tristate "Greybus Firmware Download Class driver"
depends on SPI
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus Firmware Download Class specification.
config GREYBUS_HID
tristate "Greybus HID Class driver"
depends on HID && INPUT
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus HID Class specification.
config GREYBUS_LIGHT
tristate "Greybus LED Class driver"
depends on LEDS_CLASS
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus LED Class specification.
config GREYBUS_LOG
tristate "Greybus Debug Log Class driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus Debug Log Class specification.
config GREYBUS_LOOPBACK
tristate "Greybus Loopback Class driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus Debug Log Class specification.
config GREYBUS_POWER
tristate "Greybus Powersupply Class driver"
depends on POWER_SUPPLY
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus Powersupply Class specification.
config GREYBUS_RAW
tristate "Greybus Raw Class driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus Raw Class specification.
config GREYBUS_VIBRATOR
tristate "Greybus Vibrator Motor Class driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus Vibrator Motor Class specification.
menuconfig GREYBUS_BRIDGED_PHY
tristate "Greybus Bridged PHY Class drivers"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option to pick from a variety of Greybus Bridged
PHY class drivers. These drivers emulate a number of
different "traditional" busses by tunneling them over Greybus.
tristate "Greybus GPIO Bridged PHY driver"
depends on GPIOLIB
select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus GPIO Bridged PHY Class specification.
config GREYBUS_I2C
tristate "Greybus I2C Bridged PHY driver"
depends on I2C
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus I2C Bridged PHY Class specification.
config GREYBUS_PWM
tristate "Greybus PWM Bridged PHY driver"
depends on PWM
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus PWM Bridged PHY Class specification.
config GREYBUS_SDIO
tristate "Greybus SDIO Bridged PHY driver"
depends on MMC
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus SDIO Bridged PHY Class specification.
config GREYBUS_SPI
tristate "Greybus SPI Bridged PHY driver"
depends on SPI
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus SPI Bridged PHY Class specification.
config GREYBUS_UART
tristate "Greybus UART Bridged PHY driver"
depends on TTY
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus UART Bridged PHY Class specification.
config GREYBUS_USB
tristate "Greybus USB Host Bridged PHY driver"
depends on USB
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have a device that follows the
Greybus USB Host Bridged PHY Class specification.
config GREYBUS_ARCHE
tristate "Greybus Arche Platform driver"
depends on USB_HSIC_USB3613 || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if you have an Arche device.
To compile this code as a module, chose M here: the module
depends on VIDEO_V4L2 && INTEL_ATOMISP
select IOSF_MBI
select VIDEOBUF_VMALLOC
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if your platform supports Intel Atom SoC
camera imaging subsystem.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
tristate "OVT ov2722 sensor support"
depends on ACPI
depends on I2C && VIDEO_V4L2
- ---help---
+ help
This is a Video4Linux2 sensor-level driver for the OVT
OV2722 raw camera.
tristate "Galaxy gc2235 sensor support"
depends on ACPI
depends on I2C && VIDEO_V4L2
- ---help---
+ help
This is a Video4Linux2 sensor-level driver for the OVT
GC2235 raw camera.
config VIDEO_ATOMISP_MSRLIST_HELPER
tristate "Helper library to load, parse and apply large register lists."
depends on I2C
- ---help---
+ help
This is a helper library to be used from a sensor driver to load, parse
and apply large register lists.
tristate "Aptina mt9m114 sensor support"
depends on ACPI
depends on I2C && VIDEO_V4L2
- ---help---
+ help
This is a Video4Linux2 sensor-level driver for the Micron
mt9m114 1.3 Mpixel camera.
tristate "GC0310 sensor support"
depends on ACPI
depends on I2C && VIDEO_V4L2
- ---help---
+ help
This is a Video4Linux2 sensor-level driver for the Galaxycore
GC0310 0.3MP sensor.
tristate "Omnivision OV2680 sensor support"
depends on ACPI
depends on I2C && VIDEO_V4L2
- ---help---
+ help
This is a Video4Linux2 sensor-level driver for the Omnivision
OV2680 raw camera.
tristate "LM3554 flash light driver"
depends on ACPI
depends on VIDEO_V4L2 && I2C
- ---help---
+ help
This is a Video4Linux2 sub-dev driver for the LM3554
flash light driver.
tristate "Omnivision ov5693 sensor support"
depends on ACPI
depends on I2C && VIDEO_V4L2
- ---help---
+ help
This is a Video4Linux2 sensor-level driver for the Micron
ov5693 5 Mpixel camera.
config MOST_CDEV
tristate "Cdev"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to commumicate via character devices.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
tristate "DIM2"
depends on HAS_IOMEM && OF
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to connect via MediaLB to network transceiver.
This device driver is platform dependent and needs an additional
platform driver to be installed. For more information contact
tristate "Chelsio iSCSI target offload driver"
depends on ISCSI_TARGET && CHELSIO_T4 && INET
select CHELSIO_LIB
- ---help---
+ help
To compile this driver as module, choose M here: the module
will be called cxgbit.
config TTY
bool "Enable TTY" if EXPERT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Allows you to remove TTY support which can save space, and
blocks features that require TTY from inclusion in the kernel.
TTY is required for any text terminals or serial port
depends on !UML
select INPUT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you will get support for terminal devices with
display and keyboard devices. These are called "virtual" because you
can run several virtual terminals (also called virtual consoles) on
depends on VT
default y
bool "Enable character translations in console" if EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for font mapping and Unicode translation
on virtual consoles.
bool "Support for console on virtual terminal" if EXPERT
depends on VT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
The system console is the device which receives all kernel messages
and warnings and which allows logins in single user mode. If you
answer Y here, a virtual terminal (the device used to interact with
config VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING
bool "Support for binding and unbinding console drivers"
depends on HW_CONSOLE
- ---help---
+ help
The virtual terminal is the device that interacts with the physical
terminal through console drivers. On these systems, at least one
console driver is loaded. In other configurations, additional console
config UNIX98_PTYS
bool "Unix98 PTY support" if EXPERT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two
halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to
a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to
config LEGACY_PTYS
bool "Legacy (BSD) PTY support"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two
halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to
a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to
depends on LEGACY_PTYS
range 0 256
default "256"
- ---help---
+ help
The maximum number of legacy PTYs that can be used at any one time.
The default is 256, and should be more than enough. Embedded
systems may want to reduce this to save memory.
config SERIAL_NONSTANDARD
bool "Non-standard serial port support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have any non-standard serial boards -- boards
which aren't supported using the standard "dumb" serial driver.
This includes intelligent serial boards such as Cyclades,
tristate "Cyclades async mux support"
depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && (PCI || ISA)
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports Cyclades Z and Y multiserial boards.
You would need something like this to connect more than two modems to
your Linux box, for instance in order to become a dial-in server.
depends on !S390
select SERIAL_CORE
select SERIAL_MCTRL_GPIO if GPIOLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This selects whether you want to include the driver for the standard
serial ports. The standard answer is Y. People who might say N
here are those that are setting up dedicated Ethernet WWW/FTP
bool "Support 8250_core.* kernel options (DEPRECATED)"
depends on SERIAL_8250
default y
- ---help---
+ help
In 3.7 we renamed 8250 to 8250_core by mistake, so now we have to
accept kernel parameters in both forms like 8250_core.nr_uarts=4 and
8250.nr_uarts=4. We now renamed the module back to 8250, but if
bool "8250/16550 PNP device support" if EXPERT
depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This builds standard PNP serial support. You may be able to
disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support.
config SERIAL_8250_FINTEK
bool "Support for Fintek F81216A LPC to 4 UART RS485 API"
depends on SERIAL_8250
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option will add support for the RS485 capabilities
of the Fintek F81216A LPC to 4 UART.
depends on SERIAL_8250=y
select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
select SERIAL_EARLYCON
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a serial port as the
system console (the system console is the device which receives all
kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user
config SERIAL_8250_CS
tristate "8250/16550 PCMCIA device support"
depends on PCMCIA && SERIAL_8250
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable support for 16-bit PCMCIA serial devices,
including serial port cards, modems, and the modem functions of
multi-function Ethernet/modem cards. (PCMCIA- or PC-cards are
bool "Support for console on AMBA serial port"
depends on SERIAL_AMBA_PL010=y
select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you wish to use an AMBA PrimeCell UART as the system
console (the system console is the device which receives all kernel
messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user mode).
depends on SERIAL_AMBA_PL011=y
select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
select SERIAL_EARLYCON
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you wish to use an AMBA PrimeCell UART as the system
console (the system console is the device which receives all kernel
messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user mode).
depends on SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC=y
select SERIAL_CORE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the asynchronous serial interface (DUART) included in
the BCM1250 and derived System-On-a-Chip (SOC) devices. Note that
the letter D in DUART stands for "dual", which is how the device
depends on SERIAL_SB1250_DUART=y
select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a serial port as the
system console (the system console is the device which receives all
kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user
depends on SERIAL_TEGRA_TCU=y
select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a the Tegra TCU as the
system console (the system console is the device which receives all
kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user
depends on MACH_DECSTATION && 32BIT
select SERIAL_CORE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
DZ11-family serial controllers for DECstations and VAXstations,
including the DC7085, M7814, and M7819.
depends on SERIAL_DZ=y
select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a serial port as the
system console (the system console is the device which receives all
kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user
depends on MACH_DECSTATION
select SERIAL_CORE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Zilog 85C350 serial communications controller used
for serial ports in newer DECstation systems. These include the
DECsystem 5900 and all models of the DECstation and DECsystem 5000
depends on SERIAL_ZS=y
select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a serial port as the
system console (the system console is the device which receives all
kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user
depends on GSC
select SERIAL_CORE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y here will enable the hardware MUX serial driver for
the Nova, K class systems and D class with a 'remote control card'.
The hardware MUX is not 8250/16550 compatible therefore the
tristate "Support for timberdale UART"
select SERIAL_CORE
depends on X86_32 || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for UART controller on timberdale.
config SERIAL_BCM63XX
tristate "GRLIB APBUART serial support"
depends on OF && SPARC
select SERIAL_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for the GRLIB APBUART serial port.
config SERIAL_GRLIB_GAISLER_APBUART_CONSOLE
bool "USB support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds core support for Universal Serial Bus (USB).
You will also need drivers from the following menu to make use of it.
select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
select USB_COMMON
select NLS # for UTF-8 strings
- ---help---
+ help
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a specification for a serial bus
subsystem which offers higher speeds and more features than the
traditional PC serial port. The bus supplies power to peripherals
bool "PCI based USB host interface"
depends on PCI
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Many embedded system SOCs (e.g. freescale T2080) have both
PCI and USB modules with the USB module directly controlled by
registers and having no relationship to the PCI module.
tristate "USS720 parport driver"
depends on PARPORT
select PARPORT_NOT_PC
- ---help---
+ help
This driver is for USB parallel port adapters that use the Lucent
Technologies USS-720 chip. These cables are plugged into your USB
port and provide USB compatibility to peripherals designed with
config USB_ACM
tristate "USB Modem (CDC ACM) support"
depends on TTY
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports USB modems and ISDN adapters which support the
Communication Device Class Abstract Control Model interface.
Please read <file:Documentation/usb/acm.rst> for details.
config USB_WDM
tristate "USB Wireless Device Management support"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports the WMC Device Management functionality
of cell phones compliant to the CDC WMC specification. You can use
AT commands over this device.
config USB_XHCI_HCD
tristate "xHCI HCD (USB 3.0) support"
depends on HAS_DMA && HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
The eXtensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) is standard for USB 3.0
"SuperSpeed" host controller hardware.
config USB_XHCI_DBGCAP
bool "xHCI support for debug capability"
depends on TTY
- ---help---
+ help
Say 'Y' to enable the support for the xHCI debug capability. Make
sure that your xHCI host supports the extended debug capability and
you want a TTY serial device based on the xHCI debug capability
config USB_XHCI_PCI_RENESAS
tristate "Support for additional Renesas xHCI controller with firwmare"
- ---help---
+ help
Say 'Y' to enable the support for the Renesas xHCI controller with
firwmare. Make sure you have the firwmare for the device and
installed on your system for this device to work.
config USB_XHCI_PLATFORM
tristate "Generic xHCI driver for a platform device"
select USB_XHCI_RCAR if ARCH_RENESAS
- ---help---
+ help
Adds an xHCI host driver for a generic platform device, which
provides a memory space and an irq.
It is also a prerequisite for platform specific drivers that
tristate "xHCI support for MediaTek SoCs"
select MFD_SYSCON
depends on (MIPS && SOC_MT7621) || ARCH_MEDIATEK || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Say 'Y' to enable the support for the xHCI host controller
found in MediaTek SoCs.
If unsure, say N.
select USB_XHCI_PLATFORM
depends on HAS_IOMEM
depends on ARCH_MVEBU || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Say 'Y' to enable the support for the xHCI host controller
found in Marvell Armada 375/38x/37xx ARM SOCs.
tristate "xHCI support for Renesas R-Car SoCs"
depends on USB_XHCI_PLATFORM
depends on ARCH_RENESAS || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Say 'Y' to enable the support for the xHCI host controller
found in Renesas R-Car ARM SoCs.
depends on PHY_TEGRA_XUSB
depends on RESET_CONTROLLER
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
Say 'Y' to enable the support for the xHCI host controller
found in NVIDIA Tegra124 and later SoCs.
config USB_EHCI_HCD
tristate "EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support"
depends on HAS_DMA && HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
The Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) is standard for USB 2.0
"high speed" (480 Mbit/sec, 60 Mbyte/sec) host controller hardware.
If your USB host controller supports USB 2.0, you will likely want to
config USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT
bool "Root Hub Transaction Translators"
depends on USB_EHCI_HCD
- ---help---
+ help
Some EHCI chips have vendor-specific extensions to integrate
transaction translators, so that no OHCI or UHCI companion
controller is needed. It's safe to say "y" even if your
bool "Improved Transaction Translator scheduling"
depends on USB_EHCI_HCD
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This changes the periodic scheduling code to fill more of the low
and full speed bandwidth available from the Transaction Translator
(TT) in USB 2.0 hubs. Without this, only one transfer will be
depends on MSP_HAS_USB
select USB_EHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC
select USB_EHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_MMIO
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the onchip USB controller on the PMC_MSP7100 Family SoC's.
If unsure, say N.
depends on (PPC32 || MICROBLAZE)
select USB_EHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC
select USB_EHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_MMIO
- ---help---
+ help
Xilinx xps USB host controller core is EHCI compliant and has
transaction translator built-in. It can be configured to either
support both high speed and full speed devices, or high speed
config USB_EHCI_FSL
tristate "Support for Freescale on-chip EHCI USB controller"
select USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT
- ---help---
+ help
Variation of ARC USB block used in some Freescale chips.
config USB_EHCI_MXC
tristate "Support for Freescale i.MX on-chip EHCI USB controller"
depends on ARCH_MXC || COMPILE_TEST
select USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT
- ---help---
+ help
Variation of ARC USB block used in some Freescale chips.
config USB_EHCI_HCD_NPCM7XX
depends on ARCH_OMAP
depends on NOP_USB_XCEIV
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the on-chip EHCI controller on
OMAP3 and later chips.
tristate "Support for Marvell EBU on-chip EHCI USB controller"
depends on USB_EHCI_HCD && (PLAT_ORION || ARCH_MVEBU || COMPILE_TEST)
default y if (PLAT_ORION || ARCH_MVEBU)
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the on-chip EHCI controller on Marvell's
embedded ARM SoCs, including Orion, Kirkwood, Dove, Armada XP,
Armada 370. This is different from the EHCI implementation
tristate "Support for ST SPEAr on-chip EHCI USB controller"
depends on USB_EHCI_HCD && (PLAT_SPEAR || COMPILE_TEST)
default y if PLAT_SPEAR
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the on-chip EHCI controller on
ST SPEAr chips.
tristate "Support for Atmel on-chip EHCI USB controller"
depends on USB_EHCI_HCD && (ARCH_AT91 || COMPILE_TEST)
default y if ARCH_AT91
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the on-chip EHCI controller on
Atmel chips.
bool "EHCI support for PPC USB controller on OF platform bus"
depends on PPC
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the USB controller present on the PowerPC
OpenFirmware platform bus.
config USB_EHCI_SH
bool "EHCI support for SuperH USB controller"
depends on SUPERH || COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the on-chip EHCI controller on the SuperH.
If you use the PCI EHCI controller, this option is not necessary.
tristate "EHCI support for Marvell PXA/MMP USB controller"
depends on ARCH_PXA || ARCH_MMP || COMPILE_TEST
select USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for Marvell (including PXA and MMP series) on-chip
USB SPH and OTG controller. SPH is a single port host, and it can
only be EHCI host. OTG is controller that can switch to host mode.
bool "Cavium CNS3XXX EHCI Module (DEPRECATED)"
depends on ARCH_CNS3XXX || COMPILE_TEST
select USB_EHCI_HCD_PLATFORM
- ---help---
+ help
This option is deprecated now and the driver was removed, use
USB_EHCI_HCD_PLATFORM instead.
config USB_EHCI_HCD_PLATFORM
tristate "Generic EHCI driver for a platform device"
- ---help---
+ help
Adds an EHCI host driver for a generic platform device, which
provides a memory space and an irq.
config USB_OXU210HP_HCD
tristate "OXU210HP HCD support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
The OXU210HP is an USB host/OTG/device controller. Enable this
option if your board has this chip. If unsure, say N.
config USB_ISP116X_HCD
tristate "ISP116X HCD support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
The ISP1160 and ISP1161 chips are USB host controllers. Enable this
option if your board has this chip. If unsure, say N.
tristate "ISP1362 HCD support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
depends on COMPILE_TEST # nothing uses this
- ---help---
+ help
Supports the Philips ISP1362 chip as a host controller
This driver does not support isochronous transfers.
config USB_FOTG210_HCD
tristate "FOTG210 HCD support"
depends on USB && HAS_DMA && HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
Faraday FOTG210 is an OTG controller which can be configured as
an USB2.0 host. It is designed to meet USB2.0 EHCI specification
with minor modification.
config USB_MAX3421_HCD
tristate "MAX3421 HCD (USB-over-SPI) support"
depends on USB && SPI
- ---help---
+ help
The Maxim MAX3421E chip supports standard USB 2.0-compliant
full-speed devices either in host or peripheral mode. This
driver supports the host-mode of the MAX3421E only.
config USB_OHCI_HCD
tristate "OHCI HCD (USB 1.1) support"
depends on HAS_DMA && HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
The Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI) is a standard for accessing
USB 1.1 host controller hardware. It does more in hardware than Intel's
UHCI specification. If your USB host controller follows the OHCI spec,
depends on ARCH_OMAP1
depends on ISP1301_OMAP || !(MACH_OMAP_H2 || MACH_OMAP_H3)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the OHCI controller on OMAP1/2 chips.
config USB_OHCI_HCD_SPEAR
tristate "Support for ST SPEAr on-chip OHCI USB controller"
depends on USB_OHCI_HCD && (PLAT_SPEAR || COMPILE_TEST)
default y if PLAT_SPEAR
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the on-chip OHCI controller on
ST SPEAr chips.
tristate "OHCI support for Samsung S3C24xx/S3C64xx SoC series"
depends on USB_OHCI_HCD && (ARCH_S3C24XX || ARCH_S3C64XX || COMPILE_TEST)
default y if (ARCH_S3C24XX || ARCH_S3C64XX)
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the on-chip OHCI controller on
S3C24xx/S3C64xx chips.
depends on ARCH_LPC32XX || COMPILE_TEST
depends on USB_ISP1301
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the on-chip OHCI controller on
NXP chips.
tristate "Support for PXA27X/PXA3XX on-chip OHCI USB controller"
depends on USB_OHCI_HCD && (PXA27x || PXA3xx)
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the on-chip OHCI controller on
PXA27x/PXA3xx chips.
tristate "Support for Atmel on-chip OHCI USB controller"
depends on USB_OHCI_HCD && (ARCH_AT91 || COMPILE_TEST) && OF
default y if ARCH_AT91
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for the on-chip OHCI controller on
Atmel chips.
depends on PPC
select USB_OHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC
select USB_OHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_MMIO
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for big-endian USB controllers present on the
OpenFirmware platform bus.
bool "OHCI support for OF platform bus (little endian)"
depends on PPC
select USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for little-endian USB controllers present on the
OpenFirmware platform bus.
depends on USB_PCI
default y
select USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN
- ---help---
+ help
Enables support for PCI-bus plug-in USB controller cards.
If unsure, say Y.
depends on (SSB = y || SSB = USB_OHCI_HCD)
select USB_HCD_SSB
select USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM
- ---help---
+ help
This option is deprecated now and the driver was removed, use
USB_HCD_SSB and USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM instead.
bool "OHCI support for SuperH USB controller (DEPRECATED)"
depends on SUPERH || COMPILE_TEST
select USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM
- ---help---
+ help
This option is deprecated now and the driver was removed, use
USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM instead.
bool "Cavium CNS3XXX OHCI Module (DEPRECATED)"
depends on ARCH_CNS3XXX || COMPILE_TEST
select USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM
- ---help---
+ help
This option is deprecated now and the driver was removed, use
USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM instead.
config USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM
tristate "Generic OHCI driver for a platform device"
- ---help---
+ help
Adds an OHCI host driver for a generic platform device, which
provides a memory space and an irq.
config USB_UHCI_HCD
tristate "UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support"
depends on USB_PCI || USB_UHCI_SUPPORT_NON_PCI_HC
- ---help---
+ help
The Universal Host Controller Interface is a standard by Intel for
accessing the USB hardware in the PC (which is also called the USB
host controller). If your USB host controller conforms to this
config USB_HCD_TEST_MODE
bool "HCD test mode support"
- ---help---
+ help
Say 'Y' to enable additional software test modes that may be
supported by the host controller drivers.
config USB_MDC800
tristate "USB Mustek MDC800 Digital Camera support"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to connect this type of still camera to
your computer's USB port. This driver can be used with gphoto 0.4.3
and higher (look at <http://www.gphoto.org/>).
config USB_EMI62
tristate "EMI 6|2m USB Audio interface support"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver loads firmware to Emagic EMI 6|2m low latency USB
Audio and Midi interface.
config USB_EMI26
tristate "EMI 2|6 USB Audio interface support"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver loads firmware to Emagic EMI 2|6 low latency USB
Audio interface.
tristate "USB 2.0 SVGA dongle support (Net2280/SiS315)"
depends on (USB_MUSB_HDRC || USB_EHCI_HCD)
select FONT_SUPPORT if USB_SISUSBVGA_CON
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you intend to attach a USB2VGA dongle based on a
Net2280 and a SiS315 chip.
bool "Text console and mode switching support" if USB_SISUSBVGA
depends on VT
select FONT_8x16
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want a VGA text console via the USB dongle or
want to support userland applications that utilize the driver's
display mode switching capabilities.
menuconfig USB_SERIAL
tristate "USB Serial Converter support"
depends on TTY
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a USB device that provides normal serial
ports, or acts like a serial device, and you want to connect it to
your USB bus.
config USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE
bool "USB Serial Console device support"
depends on USB_SERIAL=y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a USB to serial
converter port as the system console (the system console is the
device which receives all kernel messages and warnings and which
config USB_SERIAL_DIGI_ACCELEPORT
tristate "USB Digi International AccelePort USB Serial Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Digi AccelePort USB 2 or 4 devices,
2 port (plus parallel port) and 4 port USB serial converters. The
parallel port on the USB 2 appears as a third serial port on Linux.
config USB_SERIAL_FTDI_SIO
tristate "USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use a FTDI SIO single port USB to serial
converter device. The implementation I have is called the USC-1000.
This driver has also been tested with the 245 and 232 devices.
config USB_SERIAL_EDGEPORT
tristate "USB Inside Out Edgeport Serial Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use any of the following devices from
Inside Out Networks (Digi):
Edgeport/4
config USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN
tristate "USB Keyspan USA-xxx Serial Driver"
select USB_EZUSB_FX2
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use Keyspan USB to serial converter
devices. This driver makes use of Keyspan's official firmware
and was developed with their support. You must also include
config USB_SERIAL_KLSI
tristate "USB KL5KUSB105 (Palmconnect) Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use a KL5KUSB105 - based single port
serial adapter. The most widely known -- and currently the only
tested -- device in this category is the PalmConnect USB Serial
config USB_SERIAL_KOBIL_SCT
tristate "USB KOBIL chipcard reader"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use one of the following KOBIL USB chipcard
readers:
config USB_SERIAL_MCT_U232
tristate "USB MCT Single Port Serial Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use a USB Serial single port adapter from
Magic Control Technology Corp. (U232 is one of the model numbers).
config USB_SERIAL_METRO
tristate "USB Metrologic Instruments USB-POS Barcode Scanner Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use a USB POS Metrologic barcode scanner.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
config USB_SERIAL_MOS7720
tristate "USB Moschip 7720 Serial Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use USB Serial single and double
port adapters from Moschip Semiconductor Tech.
depends on USB_SERIAL_MOS7720
depends on PARPORT=y || PARPORT=USB_SERIAL_MOS7720
select PARPORT_NOT_PC
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you have a Moschip 7715 device and would like to use
the parallel port it provides. The port will register with
the parport subsystem as a low-level driver.
config USB_SERIAL_MOS7840
tristate "USB Moschip 7840/7820 USB Serial Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use a MCS7840 Quad-Serial or MCS7820
Dual-Serial port device from MosChip Semiconductor.
config USB_SERIAL_MXUPORT
tristate "USB Moxa UPORT Serial Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use a MOXA UPort Serial hub.
This driver supports:
config USB_SERIAL_CYBERJACK
tristate "USB REINER SCT cyberJack pinpad/e-com chipcard reader"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use a cyberJack pinpad/e-com USB chipcard
reader. This is an interface to ISO 7816 compatible contact-based
chipcards, e.g. GSM SIMs.
config USB_STORAGE
tristate "USB Mass Storage support"
depends on SCSI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to connect USB mass storage devices to your
computer's USB port. This is the driver you need for USB
floppy drives, USB hard disks, USB tape drives, USB CD-ROMs,
config USB_STORAGE_ISD200
tristate "ISD-200 USB/ATA Bridge support"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use USB Mass Store devices based
on the In-Systems Design ISD-200 USB/ATA bridge.
config USB_STORAGE_CYPRESS_ATACB
tristate "SAT emulation on Cypress USB/ATA Bridge with ATACB"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use SAT (ata pass through) on devices based
on the Cypress USB/ATA bridge supporting ATACB. This will allow you
to use tools to tune and monitor your drive (like hdparm or smartctl).
config USB_STORAGE_ENE_UB6250
tristate "USB ENE card reader support"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you wish to control a ENE SD/MS Card reader.
Note that this driver does not support SM cards.
depends on NET
select USB_COMMON
select SGL_ALLOC
- ---help---
+ help
This enables pushing USB packets over IP to allow remote
machines direct access to USB devices. It provides the
USB/IP core that is required by both drivers.
config USBIP_VHCI_HCD
tristate "VHCI hcd"
depends on USBIP_CORE && USB
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the USB/IP virtual host controller driver,
which is run on the remote machine.
range 1 15
default 8
depends on USBIP_VHCI_HCD
- ---help---
+ help
To increase number of ports available for USB/IP virtual
host controller driver, this defines number of ports per
USB/IP virtual host controller.
range 1 128
default 1
depends on USBIP_VHCI_HCD
- ---help---
+ help
To increase number of ports available for USB/IP virtual
host controller driver, this defines number of USB/IP
virtual host controllers as if adding physical host
config USBIP_HOST
tristate "Host driver"
depends on USBIP_CORE && USB
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the USB/IP host driver, which is run on the
machine that is sharing the USB devices.
config USBIP_VUDC
tristate "VUDC driver"
depends on USBIP_CORE && USB_GADGET
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the USB/IP virtual USB device controller
driver, which is run on the host machine, allowing the
machine itself to act as a device.
config USBIP_DEBUG
bool "Debug messages for USB/IP"
depends on USBIP_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the debug messages from the USB/IP drivers.
tristate "Host kernel accelerator for virtio net"
depends on NET && EVENTFD && (TUN || !TUN) && (TAP || !TAP)
select VHOST
- ---help---
+ help
This kernel module can be loaded in host kernel to accelerate
guest networking with virtio_net. Not to be confused with virtio_net
module itself which needs to be loaded in guest kernel.
depends on TARGET_CORE && EVENTFD
select VHOST
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say M here to enable the vhost_scsi TCM fabric module
for use with virtio-scsi guests
select VHOST
select VIRTIO_VSOCKETS_COMMON
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This kernel module can be loaded in the host kernel to provide AF_VSOCK
sockets for communicating with guests. The guests must have the
virtio_transport.ko driver loaded to use the virtio-vsock device.
config VHOST_CROSS_ENDIAN_LEGACY
bool "Cross-endian support for vhost"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows vhost to support guests with a different byte
ordering from host while using legacy virtio.
config MDA_CONSOLE
depends on !M68K && !PARISC && ISA
tristate "MDA text console (dual-headed)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have an old MDA or monochrome Hercules graphics
adapter in your system acting as a second head ( = video card). You
will then be able to use two monitors with your Linux system. Do not
bool "Map the console to the primary display device"
depends on FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
default n
- ---help---
+ help
If this option is selected, the framebuffer console will
automatically select the primary display device (if the architecture
supports this feature). Otherwise, the framebuffer console will
tristate "Support for frame buffer devices"
select FB_CMDLINE
select FB_NOTIFY
- ---help---
+ help
The frame buffer device provides an abstraction for the graphics
hardware. It represents the frame buffer of some video hardware and
allows application software to access the graphics hardware through
config FIRMWARE_EDID
bool "Enable firmware EDID"
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
This enables access to the EDID transferred from the firmware.
On the i386, this is from the Video BIOS. Enable this if DDC/I2C
transfers do not work for your driver and if you are using
config FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT
bool
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
If true, at least one selected framebuffer driver can take advantage
of VESA video modes set at an early boot stage via the vga= parameter.
config FB_CFB_FILLRECT
tristate
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
Include the cfb_fillrect function for generic software rectangle
filling. This is used by drivers that don't provide their own
(accelerated) version.
config FB_CFB_COPYAREA
tristate
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
Include the cfb_copyarea function for generic software area copying.
This is used by drivers that don't provide their own (accelerated)
version.
config FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
tristate
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
Include the cfb_imageblit function for generic software image
blitting. This is used by drivers that don't provide their own
(accelerated) version.
config FB_CFB_REV_PIXELS_IN_BYTE
bool
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
Allow generic frame-buffer functions to work on displays with 1, 2
and 4 bits per pixel depths which has opposite order of pixels in
byte order to bytes in long order.
config FB_SYS_FILLRECT
tristate
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
Include the sys_fillrect function for generic software rectangle
filling. This is used by drivers that don't provide their own
(accelerated) version and the framebuffer is in system RAM.
config FB_SYS_COPYAREA
tristate
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
Include the sys_copyarea function for generic software area copying.
This is used by drivers that don't provide their own (accelerated)
version and the framebuffer is in system RAM.
config FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
tristate
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
Include the sys_imageblit function for generic software image
blitting. This is used by drivers that don't provide their own
(accelerated) version and the framebuffer is in system RAM.
config FB_PROVIDE_GET_FB_UNMAPPED_AREA
bool
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
Allow generic frame-buffer to provide get_fb_unmapped_area
function.
menuconfig FB_FOREIGN_ENDIAN
bool "Framebuffer foreign endianness support"
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
This menu will let you enable support for the framebuffers with
non-native endianness (e.g. Little-Endian framebuffer on a
Big-Endian machine). Most probably you don't have such hardware,
config FB_SVGALIB
tristate
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
Common utility functions useful to fbdev drivers of VGA-based
cards.
config FB_MODE_HELPERS
bool "Enable Video Mode Handling Helpers"
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
This enables functions for handling video modes using the
Generalized Timing Formula and the EDID parser. A few drivers rely
on this feature such as the radeonfb, rivafb, and the i810fb. If
config FB_TILEBLITTING
bool "Enable Tile Blitting Support"
depends on FB
- ---help---
+ help
This enables tile blitting. Tile blitting is a drawing technique
where the screen is divided into rectangular sections (tiles), whereas
the standard blitting divides the screen into pixels. Because the
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for the SVGACTRL framebuffer in the GRLIB IP library from Aeroflex Gaisler.
config FB_CIRRUS
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for Cirrus Logic GD542x/543x based boards on
Amiga: SD64, Piccolo, Picasso II/II+, Picasso IV, or EGS Spectrum.
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
STI refers to the HP "Standard Text Interface" which is a set of
BIOS routines contained in a ROM chip in HP PA-RISC based machines.
Enabling this option will implement the linux framebuffer device
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
select BITREVERSE
- ---help---
+ help
This is the frame buffer device driver for generic TGA and SFB+
graphic cards. These include DEC ZLXp-E1, -E2 and -E3 PCI cards,
also known as PBXGA-A, -B and -C, and DEC ZLX-E1, -E2 and -E3
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a PowerVR 2 card in your box. If you plan to
run linux on your Dreamcast, you will have to say Y here.
This driver may or may not work on other PowerVR 2 cards, but is
config FB_INTEL_DEBUG
bool "Intel driver Debug Messages"
depends on FB_INTEL
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want the Intel driver to output all sorts
of debugging information to provide to the maintainer when
something goes wrong.
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
select FB_TILEBLITTING
select FB_MACMODES if PPC_PMAC
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Matrox Millennium, Matrox Millennium II,
Matrox Mystique, Matrox Mystique 220, Matrox Productiva G100, Matrox
Mystique G200, Matrox Millennium G200, Matrox Marvel G200 video,
config FB_MATROX_G
bool "G100/G200/G400/G450/G550 support"
depends on FB_MATROX
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a Matrox G100, G200, G400, G450 or G550 based
video card. If you select "Advanced lowlevel driver options", you
should check 8 bpp packed pixel, 16 bpp packed pixel, 24 bpp packed
tristate "Matrox I2C support"
depends on FB_MATROX
select FB_DDC
- ---help---
+ help
This drivers creates I2C buses which are needed for accessing the
DDC (I2C) bus present on all Matroxes, an I2C bus which
interconnects Matrox optional devices, like MGA-TVO on G200 and
config FB_MATROX_MAVEN
tristate "G400 second head support"
depends on FB_MATROX_G && FB_MATROX_I2C
- ---help---
+ help
WARNING !!! This support does not work with G450 !!!
Say Y or M here if you want to use a secondary head (meaning two
select FB_SVGALIB
select VGASTATE
select FONT_8x16 if FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for graphics boards with S3 Trio / S3 Virge chip.
config FB_S3_DDC
config FB_3DFX_ACCEL
bool "3Dfx Acceleration functions"
depends on FB_3DFX
- ---help---
+ help
This will compile the 3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3/VSA-100 frame buffer
device driver with acceleration functions.
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you have a 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (Voodoo1/sst1) or
Voodoo2 (cvg) based graphics card.
select FB_SVGALIB
select VGASTATE
select FONT_8x16 if FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for CastleRock integrated graphics core in the
VIA VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] chipset.
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
select FB_DDC
select FB_MODE_HELPERS
- ---help---
+ help
This is the frame buffer device driver for Trident PCI/AGP chipsets.
Supported chipset families are TGUI 9440/96XX, 3DImage, Blade3D
and Blade XP.
select FB_SVGALIB
select VGASTATE
select FONT_8x16 if FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
- ---help---
+ help
Driver for PCI graphics boards with ARK 2000PV chip
and ICS 5342 RAMDAC.
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Frame buffer driver for the built-in LCD controller in the Marvell
MMP processor.
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
select VIDEOMODE_HELPERS if OF
select FB_MODE_HELPERS if OF
- ---help---
+ help
Frame buffer driver for the built-in LCD controller in the Intel
PXA2x0 processor.
config FB_PXA_PARAMETERS
bool "PXA LCD command line parameters"
depends on FB_PXA
- ---help---
+ help
Enable the use of kernel command line or module parameters
to configure the physical properties of the LCD panel when
using the PXA LCD driver.
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Framebuffer driver for the Intel 2700G (Marathon) Graphics
Accelerator
config FB_MBX_DEBUG
bool "Enable debugging info via debugfs"
depends on FB_MBX && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Enable this if you want debugging information using the debug
filesystem (debugfs)
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
select PPC_LIB_RHEAP
- ---help---
+ help
Framebuffer driver for the Freescale SoC DIU
config FB_W100
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Frame buffer driver for the w100 as found on the Sharp SL-Cxx series.
It can also drive the w3220 chip found on iPAQ hx4700.
select FB_SYS_FOPS
select FB_DEFERRED_IO
select FB_BACKLIGHT
- ---help---
+ help
Frame buffer driver for the on-chip SH-Mobile LCD controller.
config FB_TMIO
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Frame buffer driver for the Toshiba Mobile IO integrated as found
on the Sharp SL-6000 series
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Frame buffer driver for the built-in FB controller in the Samsung
SoC line from the S3C2443 onwards, including the S3C2416, S3C2450,
and the S3C64XX series such as the S3C6400 and S3C6410.
config FB_S3C_DEBUG_REGWRITE
bool "Debug register writes"
depends on FB_S3C
- ---help---
+ help
Show all register writes via pr_debug()
config FB_S3C2410
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Frame buffer driver for the built-in LCD controller in the Samsung
S3C2410 processor.
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Frame buffer driver for the CRT and LCD controllers in the Silicon
Motion SM501.
select FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
select FB_SYS_FOPS
select FB_DEFERRED_IO
- ---help---
+ help
This is a kernel framebuffer driver for SMSC UFX USB devices.
Supports fbdev clients like xf86-video-fbdev, kdrive, fbi, and
mplayer -vo fbdev. Supports both UFX6000 (USB 2.0) and UFX7000
select FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
select FB_SYS_FOPS
select FB_DEFERRED_IO
- ---help---
+ help
This is a kernel framebuffer driver for DisplayLink USB devices.
Supports fbdev clients like xf86-video-fbdev, kdrive, fbi, and
mplayer -vo fbdev. Supports all USB 2.0 era DisplayLink devices.
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable support for the IBM GXT4000P/6000P and
GXT4500P/6500P display adaptor based on Raster Engine RC1000,
found on some IBM System P (pSeries) machines. This driver
select FB_SYS_COPYAREA
select FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
select FB_SYS_FOPS
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for the virtual frame buffer in the PS3 platform.
config FB_PS3_DEFAULT_SIZE_M
int "PS3 default frame buffer size (in MiB)"
depends on FB_PS3
default 9
- ---help---
+ help
This is the default size (in MiB) of the virtual frame buffer in
the PS3.
The default value can be overridden on the kernel command line
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for the Xilinx ML300/ML403 reference design
framebuffer. ML300 carries a 640*480 LCD display on the board,
ML403 uses a standard DB15 VGA connector.
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Framebuffer driver for Goldfish Virtual Platform
config FB_COBALT
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the SH7760/SH7763/SH7720/SH7721 integrated
(D)STN/TFT LCD Controller.
Supports display resolutions up to 1024x1024 pixel, grayscale and
select FB_CFB_REV_PIXELS_IN_BYTE
select FB_MODE_HELPERS
select VIDEOMODE_HELPERS
- ---help---
+ help
This is the frame buffer device driver for the TI LCD controller
found on DA8xx/OMAP-L1xx/AM335x SoCs.
If unsure, say N.
select FB_SYS_COPYAREA
select FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
select FB_SYS_FOPS
- ---help---
+ help
This is a `virtual' frame buffer device. It operates on a chunk of
unswappable kernel memory instead of on the memory of a graphics
board. This means you cannot see any output sent to this frame
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Frame buffer driver for Fujitsu Carmine/Coral-P(A)/Lime controllers.
choice
config FB_MB862XX_PCI_GDC
bool "Carmine/Coral-P(A) GDC"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This enables framebuffer support for Fujitsu Carmine/Coral-P(A)
PCI graphics controller devices.
depends on OF && PPC
select FB_FOREIGN_ENDIAN
select FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN
- ---help---
+ help
Framebuffer support for Fujitsu Lime GDC on host CPU bus.
endchoice
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Framebuffer driver for the Cirrus Logic EP93XX series of processors.
This driver is also available as a module. The module will be called
ep93xx-fb.
config FB_PRE_INIT_FB
bool "Don't reinitialize, use bootloader's GDC/Display configuration"
depends on FB && FB_MB862XX_LIME
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option if display contents should be inherited as set by
the bootloader.
config FB_GEODE
bool "AMD Geode family framebuffer support"
depends on FB && PCI && (X86_32 || (X86 && COMPILE_TEST))
- ---help---
+ help
Say 'Y' here to allow you to select framebuffer drivers for
the AMD Geode family of processors.
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Framebuffer driver for the display controller integrated into the
AMD Geode LX processors.
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Framebuffer driver for the display controller integrated into the
AMD Geode GX processors.
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
- ---help---
+ help
Framebuffer driver for the display controller integrated into the
AMD Geode GX1 processor.
menuconfig VIRT_DRIVERS
bool "Virtualization drivers"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for device drivers that support
virtualization environments.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config VIRTIO
tristate
- ---help---
+ help
This option is selected by any driver which implements the virtio
bus, such as CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI, CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO, CONFIG_RPMSG
or CONFIG_S390_GUEST.
tristate "PCI driver for virtio devices"
depends on PCI
select VIRTIO
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides support for virtio based paravirtual device
drivers over PCI. This requires that your VMM has appropriate PCI
virtio backends. Most QEMU based VMMs should support these devices
bool "Support for legacy virtio draft 0.9.X and older devices"
default y
depends on VIRTIO_PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Virtio PCI Card 0.9.X Draft (circa 2014) and older device support.
This option enables building a transitional driver, supporting
depends on VIRTIO
select MEMORY_BALLOON
select PAGE_REPORTING
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports increasing and decreasing the amount
of memory within a KVM guest.
tristate "Virtio input driver"
depends on VIRTIO
depends on INPUT
- ---help---
+ help
This driver supports virtio input devices such as
keyboards, mice and tablets.
tristate "Platform bus driver for memory mapped virtio devices"
depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA
select VIRTIO
- ---help---
+ help
This drivers provides support for memory mapped virtio
platform device driver.
config VIRTIO_MMIO_CMDLINE_DEVICES
bool "Memory mapped virtio devices parameter parsing"
depends on VIRTIO_MMIO
- ---help---
+ help
Allow virtio-mmio devices instantiation via the kernel command line
or module parameters. Be aware that using incorrect parameters (base
address in particular) can crash your system - you have been warned.
config UNISYS_VISORBUS
tristate "Unisys visorbus driver"
depends on X86_64 && ACPI
- ---help---
+ help
The visorbus driver is a virtualized bus for the Unisys s-Par firmware.
Virtualized devices allow Linux guests on a system to share disks and
network cards that do not have SR-IOV support, and to be accessed using
menuconfig VME_BUS
bool "VME bridge support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here you get support for the VME bridge Framework.
if VME_BUS
menuconfig W1
tristate "Dallas's 1-wire support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
- ---help---
+ help
Dallas' 1-wire bus is useful to connect slow 1-pin devices
such as iButtons and thermal sensors.
depends on CONNECTOR
bool "Userspace communication over connector"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This allows to communicate with userspace using connector. For more
information see <file:Documentation/driver-api/connector.rst>.
There are three types of messages between w1 core and userspace:
menuconfig WATCHDOG
bool "Watchdog Timer Support"
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here (and to one of the following options) and create a
character special file /dev/watchdog with major number 10 and minor
number 130 using mknod ("man mknod"), you will get a watchdog, i.e.:
config WATCHDOG_CORE
tristate "WatchDog Timer Driver Core"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the new watchdog timer driver core.
This driver provides a framework for all watchdog timer drivers
and gives them the /dev/watchdog interface (and later also the
config ACQUIRE_WDT
tristate "Acquire SBC Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog on Single Board
Computers produced by Acquire Inc (and others). This watchdog
simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't freeze, and if
config ALIM1535_WDT
tristate "ALi M1535 PMU Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86 && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog on the ALi M1535 PMU.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
tristate "AMD/ATI SP5100 TCO Timer/Watchdog"
depends on X86 && PCI
select WATCHDOG_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Hardware watchdog driver for the AMD/ATI SP5100 chipset. The TCO
(Total Cost of Ownership) timer is a watchdog timer that will reboot
the machine after its expiration. The expiration time can be
config SBC_FITPC2_WATCHDOG
tristate "Compulab SBC-FITPC2 watchdog"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the built-in watchdog timer on the fit-PC2,
fit-PC2i, CM-iAM single-board computers made by Compulab.
config IB700_WDT
tristate "IB700 SBC Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog on the IB700 Single
Board Computer produced by TMC Technology (www.tmc-uk.com). This watchdog
simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't freeze, and if
tristate "Intel 6300ESB Timer/Watchdog"
depends on PCI
select WATCHDOG_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Hardware driver for the watchdog timer built into the Intel
6300ESB controller hub.
select WATCHDOG_CORE
select MFD_CORE
select LPC_SCH
- ---help---
+ help
Hardware driver for the watchdog timer built into the Intel
Atom E6XX (TunnelCreek) processor.
config INTEL_SCU_WATCHDOG
bool "Intel SCU Watchdog for Mobile Platforms"
depends on X86_INTEL_MID
- ---help---
+ help
Hardware driver for the watchdog time built into the Intel SCU
for Intel Mobile Platforms.
tristate "Intel MID Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86_INTEL_MID
select WATCHDOG_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Watchdog timer driver built into the Intel SCU for Intel MID
Platforms.
depends on MFD_INTEL_PMC_BXT || !MFD_INTEL_PMC_BXT
select LPC_ICH if !EXPERT
select I2C_I801 if !EXPERT && I2C
- ---help---
+ help
Hardware driver for the intel TCO timer based watchdog devices.
These drivers are included in the Intel 82801 I/O Controller
Hub family (from ICH0 up to ICH10) and in the Intel 63xxESB
config ITCO_VENDOR_SUPPORT
bool "Intel TCO Timer/Watchdog Specific Vendor Support"
depends on ITCO_WDT
- ---help---
+ help
Add vendor specific support to the intel TCO timer based watchdog
devices. At this moment we only have additional support for some
SuperMicro Inc. motherboards.
config IT8712F_WDT
tristate "IT8712F (Smart Guardian) Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the built-in watchdog timer on the IT8712F
Super I/0 chipset used on many motherboards.
tristate "IT87 Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86
select WATCHDOG_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog on the ITE IT8607,
IT8620, IT8622, IT8625, IT8628, IT8655, IT8665, IT8686, IT8702,
IT8712, IT8716, IT8718, IT8720, IT8721, IT8726, IT8728, and
config PC87413_WDT
tristate "NS PC87413 watchdog"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog on the PC87413 chipset
This watchdog simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't
freeze, and if it does, it reboots your computer after a certain
config NV_TCO
tristate "nVidia TCO Timer/Watchdog"
depends on X86 && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Hardware driver for the TCO timer built into the nVidia Hub family
(such as the MCP51). The TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) timer is a
watchdog timer that will reboot the machine after its second
config SBC8360_WDT
tristate "SBC8360 Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog on the SBC8360 Single
Board Computer produced by Axiomtek Co., Ltd. (www.axiomtek.com).
config SBC7240_WDT
tristate "SBC Nano 7240 Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86_32 && !UML
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog found on the IEI
single board computers EPIC Nano 7240 (and likely others). This
watchdog simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't freeze,
config CPU5_WDT
tristate "SMA CPU5 Watchdog"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
TBD.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called cpu5wdt.
config SMSC_SCH311X_WDT
tristate "SMSC SCH311X Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog timer on the
SMSC SCH3112, SCH3114 and SCH3116 Super IO chipset
(LPC IO with 8042 KBC, Reset Generation, HWM and multiple
config SMSC37B787_WDT
tristate "Winbond SMsC37B787 Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog component on the
Winbond SMsC37B787 chipset as used on the NetRunner Mainboard
from Vision Systems and maybe others.
tristate "VIA Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86 && PCI
select WATCHDOG_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog timer on VIA
southbridge chipset CX700, VX800/VX820 or VX855/VX875.
tristate "Watchdog timer for W83627HF/W83627DHG and compatibles"
depends on X86
select WATCHDOG_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog on the following
Super I/O chips.
W83627DHG/DHG-P/EHF/EHG/F/G/HF/S/SF/THF/UHG/UG
config W83877F_WDT
tristate "W83877F (EMACS) Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog on the W83877F chipset
as used in EMACS PC-104 motherboards (and likely others). This
watchdog simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't freeze,
config W83977F_WDT
tristate "W83977F (PCM-5335) Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog on the W83977F I/O chip
as used in AAEON's PCM-5335 SBC (and likely others). This
watchdog simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't freeze,
config MACHZ_WDT
tristate "ZF MachZ Watchdog"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
If you are using a ZF Micro MachZ processor, say Y here, otherwise
N. This is the driver for the watchdog timer built-in on that
processor using ZF-Logic interface. This watchdog simply watches
config SBC_EPX_C3_WATCHDOG
tristate "Winsystems SBC EPX-C3 watchdog"
depends on X86
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the built-in watchdog timer on the EPX-C3
Single-board computer made by Winsystems, Inc.
tristate "Intel MEI iAMT Watchdog"
depends on INTEL_MEI && X86
select WATCHDOG_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
A device driver for the Intel MEI iAMT watchdog.
The Intel AMT Watchdog is an OS Health (Hang/Crash) watchdog.
tristate "NI 903x/913x Watchdog"
depends on X86 && ACPI
select WATCHDOG_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the watchdog timer on the National Instruments
903x/913x real-time controllers.
tristate "NIC7018 Watchdog"
depends on X86 && ACPI
select WATCHDOG_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Support for National Instruments NIC7018 Watchdog.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
config GEF_WDT
tristate "GE Watchdog Timer"
depends on GE_FPGA
- ---help---
+ help
Watchdog timer found in a number of GE single board computers.
config MPC5200_WDT
tristate "PowerPC Book-E Watchdog Timer"
depends on BOOKE || 4xx
select WATCHDOG_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Watchdog driver for PowerPC Book-E chips, such as the Freescale
MPC85xx SOCs and the IBM PowerPC 440.
config WATCHDOG_CP1XXX
tristate "CP1XXX Hardware Watchdog support"
depends on SPARC64 && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the hardware watchdog timers present on
Sun Microsystems CompactPCI models CP1400 and CP1500.
config PCWATCHDOG
tristate "Berkshire Products ISA-PC Watchdog"
depends on ISA
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the Berkshire Products ISA-PC Watchdog card.
This card simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't freeze,
and if it does, it reboots your computer after a certain amount of
config MIXCOMWD
tristate "Mixcom Watchdog"
depends on ISA
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the Mixcom hardware watchdog cards. This
watchdog simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't freeze,
and if it does, it reboots your computer after a certain amount of
config WDT
tristate "WDT Watchdog timer"
depends on ISA
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a WDT500P or WDT501P watchdog board, say Y here,
otherwise N. It is not possible to probe for this board, which means
that you have to inform the kernel about the IO port and IRQ that
config PCIPCWATCHDOG
tristate "Berkshire Products PCI-PC Watchdog"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the Berkshire Products PCI-PC Watchdog card.
This card simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't freeze,
and if it does, it reboots your computer after a certain amount of
config WDTPCI
tristate "PCI-WDT500/501 Watchdog timer"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
If you have a PCI-WDT500/501 watchdog board, say Y here, otherwise N.
If you have a PCI-WDT501 watchdog board then you can enable the
config USBPCWATCHDOG
tristate "Berkshire Products USB-PC Watchdog"
depends on USB
- ---help---
+ help
This is the driver for the Berkshire Products USB-PC Watchdog card.
This card simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't freeze,
and if it does, it reboots your computer after a certain amount of
config ZORRO_NAMES
bool "Zorro device name database"
depends on ZORRO
- ---help---
+ help
By default, the kernel contains a database of all known Zorro device
names to make the information in /proc/iomem comprehensible to the
user. This database increases the size of the kernel image by about
menuconfig MISC_FILESYSTEMS
bool "Miscellaneous filesystems"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for various miscellaneous
filesystems, such as filesystems that came from other
operating systems.
bool "Network File Systems"
default y
depends on NET
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and
filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and
RPCSEC security modules.
depends on MMU
select ELFCORE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) is a format for libraries and
executables used across different architectures and operating
systems. Saying Y here will enable your kernel to run ELF binaries
config BINFMT_AOUT
tristate "Kernel support for a.out and ECOFF binaries"
depends on HAVE_AOUT
- ---help---
+ help
A.out (Assembler.OUTput) is a set of formats for libraries and
executables used in the earliest versions of UNIX. Linux used
the a.out formats QMAGIC and ZMAGIC until they were replaced
config BINFMT_EM86
tristate "Kernel support for Linux/Intel ELF binaries"
depends on ALPHA
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to execute Linux/Intel ELF
binaries just like native Alpha binaries on your Alpha machine. For
this to work, you need to have the emulator /usr/bin/em86 in place.
config BINFMT_MISC
tristate "Kernel support for MISC binaries"
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to plug wrapper-driven binary
formats into the kernel. You will like this especially when you use
programs that need an interpreter to run like Java, Python, .NET or
menuconfig NLS
tristate "Native language support"
- ---help---
+ help
The base Native Language Support. A number of filesystems
depend on it (e.g. FAT, JOLIET, NT, BEOS filesystems), as well
as the ability of some filesystems to use native languages
config NLS_DEFAULT
string "Default NLS Option"
default "iso8859-1"
- ---help---
+ help
The default NLS used when mounting file system. Note, that this is
the NLS used by your console, not the NLS used by a specific file
system (if different) to store data (filenames) on a disk.
config NLS_CODEPAGE_850
tristate "Codepage 850 (Europe)"
- ---help---
+ help
The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_CODEPAGE_852
tristate "Codepage 852 (Central/Eastern Europe)"
- ---help---
+ help
The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_ISO8859_15
tristate "NLS ISO 8859-15 (Latin 9; Western European Languages with Euro)"
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to display filenames with native language characters
from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs
correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate
config NLS_MAC_ROMAN
tristate "Codepage macroman"
- ---help---
+ help
The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_MAC_CELTIC
tristate "Codepage macceltic"
- ---help---
+ help
The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_MAC_CENTEURO
tristate "Codepage maccenteuro"
- ---help---
+ help
The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_MAC_CROATIAN
tristate "Codepage maccroatian"
- ---help---
+ help
The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_MAC_CYRILLIC
tristate "Codepage maccyrillic"
- ---help---
+ help
The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_MAC_GAELIC
tristate "Codepage macgaelic"
- ---help---
+ help
The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_MAC_GREEK
tristate "Codepage macgreek"
- ---help---
+ help
The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_MAC_ICELAND
tristate "Codepage maciceland"
- ---help---
+ help
The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_MAC_INUIT
tristate "Codepage macinuit"
- ---help---
+ help
The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_MAC_ROMANIAN
tristate "Codepage macromanian"
- ---help---
+ help
The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate
config NLS_MAC_TURKISH
tristate "Codepage macturkish"
- ---help---
+ help
The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in
native language character sets. These character sets are stored in
so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate
select FSNOTIFY
select EXPORTFS
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable fanotify support. fanotify is a file access
notification system which differs from inotify in that it sends
an open file descriptor to the userspace listener along with
depends on FANOTIFY
depends on SECURITY
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here is you want fanotify listeners to be able to make permissions
decisions concerning filesystem events. This is used by some fanotify
listeners which need to scan files before allowing the system access to
bool "Inotify support for userspace"
select FSNOTIFY
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
depends on PROC_FS
select SYSCTL
default y
- ---help---
+ help
The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
config ROMFS_FS
tristate "ROM file system support"
depends on BLOCK || MTD
- ---help---
+ help
This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
other read-only media as well. Read
config SYSVIPC
bool "System V IPC"
- ---help---
+ help
Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
config POSIX_MQUEUE
bool "POSIX Message Queues"
depends on NET
- ---help---
+ help
POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
config IKCONFIG
tristate "Kernel .config support"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
config IKCONFIG_PROC
bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
through /proc/config.gz.
bool "IO controller"
depends on BLOCK
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
policies.
config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
- ---help---
+ help
sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
architectures.
config SYSFS_SYSCALL
bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
compatibility with some systems.
depends on DEBUG_FS
select CONSTRUCTORS if !UML
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables gcov-based code profiling (e.g. for code coverage
measurements).
depends on GCOV_KERNEL
depends on ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This options activates profiling for the entire kernel.
If unsure, say N.
config SPARSE_IRQ
bool "Support sparse irq numbering" if MAY_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ
- ---help---
+ help
Sparse irq numbering is useful for distro kernels that want
to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still want to have
depends on DEBUG_FS
select GENERIC_IRQ_INJECTION
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Exposes internal state information through debugfs. Mostly for
developers and debugging of hard to diagnose interrupt problems.
bool "Suspend to RAM and standby"
depends on ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Allow the system to enter sleep states in which main memory is
powered and thus its contents are preserved, such as the
suspend-to-RAM state (e.g. the ACPI S3 state).
select LZO_COMPRESS
select LZO_DECOMPRESS
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
Enable the suspend to disk (STD) functionality, which is usually
called "hibernation" in user interfaces. STD checkpoints the
system and powers it off; and restores that checkpoint on reboot.
bool "Userspace snapshot device"
depends on HIBERNATION
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Device used by the uswsusp tools.
Say N if no snapshotting from userspace is needed, this also
string "Default resume partition"
depends on HIBERNATION
default ""
- ---help---
+ help
The default resume partition is the partition that the suspend-
to-disk implementation will look for a suspended disk image.
def_bool y
depends on PM_SLEEP_SMP
depends on ARCH_SUSPEND_NONZERO_CPU
- ---help---
+ help
If an arch can suspend (for suspend, hibernate, kexec, etc) on a
non-zero numbered CPU, it may define ARCH_SUSPEND_NONZERO_CPU. This
will allow nohz_full mask to include CPU0.
bool "Opportunistic sleep"
depends on PM_SLEEP
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Allow the kernel to trigger a system transition into a global sleep
state automatically whenever there are no active wakeup sources.
bool "User space wakeup sources interface"
depends on PM_SLEEP
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Allow user space to create, activate and deactivate wakeup source
objects with the help of a sysfs-based interface.
config PM
bool "Device power management core functionality"
- ---help---
+ help
Enable functionality allowing I/O devices to be put into energy-saving
(low power) states, for example after a specified period of inactivity
(autosuspended), and woken up in response to a hardware-generated
config PM_DEBUG
bool "Power Management Debug Support"
depends on PM
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables various debugging support in the Power Management
code. This is helpful when debugging and reporting PM bugs, like
suspend support.
config PM_ADVANCED_DEBUG
bool "Extra PM attributes in sysfs for low-level debugging/testing"
depends on PM_DEBUG
- ---help---
+ help
Add extra sysfs attributes allowing one to access some Power Management
fields of device objects from user space. If you are not a kernel
developer interested in debugging/testing Power Management, say "no".
config PM_TEST_SUSPEND
bool "Test suspend/resume and wakealarm during bootup"
depends on SUSPEND && PM_DEBUG && RTC_CLASS=y
- ---help---
+ help
This option will let you suspend your machine during bootup, and
make it wake up a few seconds later using an RTC wakeup alarm.
Enable this with a kernel parameter like "test_suspend=mem".
config DPM_WATCHDOG
bool "Device suspend/resume watchdog"
depends on PM_DEBUG && PSTORE && EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Sets up a watchdog timer to capture drivers that are
locked up attempting to suspend/resume a device.
A detected lockup causes system panic with message
depends on PM_SLEEP_DEBUG
depends on X86
select PM_TRACE
- ---help---
+ help
This enables some cheesy code to save the last PM event point in the
RTC across reboots, so that you can debug a machine that just hangs
during suspend (or more commonly, during resume).
config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
bool "Check for stack overflows"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
select ASYNC_MEMCPY
- ---help---
+ help
This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
config MEMTEST
bool "Memtest"
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
to be set.
memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config PAGE_EXTENSION
bool "Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page"
- ---help---
+ help
Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page. This
could be used for debugging features that need to insert extra
field for every page. This extension enables us to save memory
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on !HIBERNATION || ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC
select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
- ---help---
+ help
Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
Depending on runtime enablement, this results in a small or large
slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruption.
config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT
bool "Enable debug page memory allocations by default?"
depends on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
- ---help---
+ help
Enable debug page memory allocations by default? This value
can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on.
config PAGE_POISONING
bool "Poison pages after freeing"
select PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY if HIBERNATION
- ---help---
+ help
Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps
reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does
config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY
depends on PAGE_POISONING
bool "Only poison, don't sanity check"
- ---help---
+ help
Skip the sanity checking on alloc, only fill the pages with
poison on free. This reduces some of the overhead of the
poisoning feature.
config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of debugging value"
depends on PAGE_POISONING
- ---help---
+ help
Instead of using the existing poison value, fill the pages with
zeros. This makes it harder to detect when errors are occurring
due to sanitization but the zeroing at free means that it is
bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on TRACEPOINTS
- ---help---
+ help
This is a feature to add tracepoint for tracking down page reference
manipulation. This tracking is useful to diagnose functional failure
due to migration failures caused by page reference mismatches. Be
config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
bool "Testcase for the marking rodata read-only"
depends on STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables a testcase for the setting rodata read-only.
config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
menuconfig 6LOWPAN
tristate "6LoWPAN Support"
depends on IPV6
- ---help---
+ help
This enables IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Network -
"6LoWPAN" which is supported by IEEE 802.15.4 or Bluetooth stacks.
bool "6LoWPAN debugfs support"
depends on 6LOWPAN
depends on DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This enables 6LoWPAN debugfs support. For example to manipulate
IPHC context information at runtime.
tristate "Next Header and Generic Header Compression Support"
depends on 6LOWPAN
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Support for next header and generic header compression defined in
RFC6282 and RFC7400.
config 6LOWPAN_NHC_DEST
tristate "Destination Options Header Support"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 Destination Options Header compression according to
RFC6282.
config 6LOWPAN_NHC_FRAGMENT
tristate "Fragment Header Support"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 Fragment Header compression according to RFC6282.
config 6LOWPAN_NHC_HOP
tristate "Hop-by-Hop Options Header Support"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Options Header compression according to
RFC6282.
config 6LOWPAN_NHC_IPV6
tristate "IPv6 Header Support"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 Header compression according to RFC6282.
config 6LOWPAN_NHC_MOBILITY
tristate "Mobility Header Support"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 Mobility Header compression according to RFC6282.
config 6LOWPAN_NHC_ROUTING
tristate "Routing Header Support"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 Routing Header compression according to RFC6282.
config 6LOWPAN_NHC_UDP
tristate "UDP Header Support"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 UDP Header compression according to RFC6282.
config 6LOWPAN_GHC_EXT_HDR_HOP
tristate "GHC Hop-by-Hop Options Header Support"
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 Hop-by-Hop option generic header compression according
to RFC7400.
config 6LOWPAN_GHC_UDP
tristate "GHC UDP Support"
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 UDP generic header compression according to RFC7400.
config 6LOWPAN_GHC_ICMPV6
tristate "GHC ICMPv6 Support"
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 ICMPv6 generic header compression according to RFC7400.
config 6LOWPAN_GHC_EXT_HDR_DEST
tristate "GHC Destination Options Header Support"
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 destination option generic header compression according
to RFC7400.
config 6LOWPAN_GHC_EXT_HDR_FRAG
tristate "GHC Fragmentation Options Header Support"
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 fragmentation option generic header compression
according to RFC7400.
config 6LOWPAN_GHC_EXT_HDR_ROUTE
tristate "GHC Routing Options Header Support"
- ---help---
+ help
6LoWPAN IPv6 routing option generic header compression according
to RFC7400.
config VLAN_8021Q
tristate "802.1Q/802.1ad VLAN Support"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this and you will be able to create 802.1Q VLAN interfaces
on your Ethernet interfaces. 802.1Q VLAN supports almost
everything a regular Ethernet interface does, including
select NLATTR
select GENERIC_NET_UTILS
select BPF
- ---help---
+ help
Unless you really know what you are doing, you should say Y here.
The reason is that some programs need kernel networking support even
when running on a stand-alone machine that isn't connected to any
config INET
bool "TCP/IP networking"
- ---help---
+ help
These are the protocols used on the Internet and on most local
Ethernets. It is highly recommended to say Y here (this will enlarge
your kernel by about 400 KB), since some programs (e.g. the X window
menuconfig NETFILTER
bool "Network packet filtering framework (Netfilter)"
- ---help---
+ help
Netfilter is a framework for filtering and mangling network packets
that pass through your Linux box.
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NETFILTER_FAMILY_BRIDGE
select SKB_EXTENSIONS
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this option will let arptables resp. iptables see bridged
ARP resp. IP traffic. If you want a bridging firewall, you probably
want this option enabled.
bool "Network priority cgroup"
depends on CGROUPS
select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
- ---help---
+ help
Cgroup subsystem for use in assigning processes to network priorities on
a per-interface basis.
bool "Network classid cgroup"
depends on CGROUPS
select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
- ---help---
+ help
Cgroup subsystem for use as general purpose socket classid marker that is
being used in cls_cgroup and for netfilter matching.
bool "enable BPF Just In Time compiler"
depends on HAVE_CBPF_JIT || HAVE_EBPF_JIT
depends on MODULES
- ---help---
+ help
Berkeley Packet Filter filtering capabilities are normally handled
by an interpreter. This option allows kernel to generate a native
code when filter is loaded in memory. This should speedup
depends on CGROUP_BPF
select STREAM_PARSER
select NET_SOCK_MSG
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this allows a stream parser to be used with
BPF_MAP_TYPE_SOCKMAP.
bool
depends on RPS
default y
- ---help---
+ help
The network stack has to drop packets when a receive processing CPU's
backlog reaches netdev_max_backlog. If a few out of many active flows
generate the vast majority of load, drop their traffic earlier to
config NET_PKTGEN
tristate "Packet Generator (USE WITH CAUTION)"
depends on INET && PROC_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This module will inject preconfigured packets, at a configurable
rate, out of a given interface. It is used for network interface
stress testing and performance analysis. If you don't understand
config NET_DROP_MONITOR
tristate "Network packet drop alerting service"
depends on INET && TRACEPOINTS
- ---help---
+ help
This feature provides an alerting service to userspace in the
event that packets are discarded in the network stack. Alerts
are broadcast via netlink socket to any listening user space
config LWTUNNEL
bool "Network light weight tunnels"
- ---help---
+ help
This feature provides an infrastructure to support light weight
tunnels like mpls. There is no netdevice associated with a light
weight tunnel endpoint. Tunnel encapsulation parameters are stored
bool "Execute BPF program as route nexthop action"
depends on LWTUNNEL && INET
default y if LWTUNNEL=y
- ---help---
+ help
Allows to run BPF programs as a nexthop action following a route
lookup for incoming and outgoing packets.
config ATM
tristate "Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)"
- ---help---
+ help
ATM is a high-speed networking technology for Local Area Networks
and Wide Area Networks. It uses a fixed packet size and is
connection oriented, allowing for the negotiation of minimum
select LLC
select STP
depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, then your Linux box will be able to act as an
Ethernet bridge, which means that the different Ethernet segments it
is connected to will appear as one Ethernet to the participants.
depends on BRIDGE
depends on INET
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, then the Ethernet bridge will be able selectively
forward multicast traffic based on IGMP/MLD traffic received from
each port.
depends on BRIDGE
depends on VLAN_8021Q
default n
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, then the Ethernet bridge will be able selectively
receive and forward traffic based on VLAN information in the packet
any VLAN information configured on the bridge port or bridge device.
tristate "CAIF support"
select CRC_CCITT
default n
- ---help---
+ help
The "Communication CPU to Application CPU Interface" (CAIF) is a packet
based connection-oriented MUX protocol developed by ST-Ericsson for use
with its modems. It is accessed from user space as sockets (PF_CAIF).
bool "Enable Debug"
depends on CAIF
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Enable the inclusion of debug code in the CAIF stack.
Be aware that doing this will impact performance.
If unsure say N.
tristate "CAIF GPRS Network device"
depends on CAIF
default CAIF
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you will be using a CAIF based GPRS network device.
This can be either built-in or a loadable module.
If you select to build it as a built-in then the main CAIF device must
tristate "CAIF USB support"
depends on CAIF
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you are using CAIF over USB CDC NCM.
This can be either built-in or a loadable module.
If you select to build it as a built-in then the main CAIF device must
menuconfig CAN
depends on NET
tristate "CAN bus subsystem support"
- ---help---
+ help
Controller Area Network (CAN) is a slow (up to 1Mbit/s) serial
communications protocol. Development of the CAN bus started in
1983 at Robert Bosch GmbH, and the protocol was officially
config CAN_RAW
tristate "Raw CAN Protocol (raw access with CAN-ID filtering)"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
The raw CAN protocol option offers access to the CAN bus via
the BSD socket API. You probably want to use the raw socket in
most cases where no higher level protocol is being used. The raw
config CAN_BCM
tristate "Broadcast Manager CAN Protocol (with content filtering)"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
The Broadcast Manager offers content filtering, timeout monitoring,
sending of RTR frames, and cyclic CAN messages without permanent user
interaction. The BCM can be 'programmed' via the BSD socket API and
config CAN_GW
tristate "CAN Gateway/Router (with netlink configuration)"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
The CAN Gateway/Router is used to route (and modify) CAN frames.
It is based on the PF_CAN core infrastructure for msg filtering and
msg sending and can optionally modify routed CAN frames on the fly.
config DCB
bool "Data Center Bridging support"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for configuring Data Center Bridging (DCB)
features on DCB capable Ethernet adapters via rtnetlink. Say 'Y'
if you have a DCB capable Ethernet adapter which supports this
menuconfig IP_DCCP
tristate "The DCCP Protocol"
depends on INET
- ---help---
+ help
Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (RFC 4340)
From http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4340.txt:
config IP_DCCP_DEBUG
bool "DCCP debug messages"
- ---help---
+ help
Only use this if you're hacking DCCP.
When compiling DCCP as a module, this debugging output can be toggled
config IP_DCCP_CCID2_DEBUG
bool "CCID-2 debugging messages"
- ---help---
+ help
Enable CCID-2 specific debugging messages.
The debugging output can additionally be toggled by setting the
config IP_DCCP_CCID3
bool "CCID-3 (TCP-Friendly)"
def_bool y if (IP_DCCP = y || IP_DCCP = m)
- ---help---
+ help
CCID-3 denotes TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC), an equation-based
rate-controlled congestion control mechanism. TFRC is designed to
be reasonably fair when competing for bandwidth with TCP-like flows,
config IP_DCCP_CCID3_DEBUG
bool "CCID-3 debugging messages"
depends on IP_DCCP_CCID3
- ---help---
+ help
Enable CCID-3 specific debugging messages.
The debugging output can additionally be toggled by setting the
#
config DECNET
tristate "DECnet Support"
- ---help---
+ help
The DECnet networking protocol was used in many products made by
Digital (now Compaq). It provides reliable stream and sequenced
packet communications over which run a variety of services similar
bool "DECnet: router support"
depends on DECNET
select FIB_RULES
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for turning your DECnet Endnode into a level 1 or 2
router. This is an experimental, but functional option. If you
do say Y here, then make sure that you also say Y to "Kernel/User
select NET_SWITCHDEV
select PHYLINK
select NET_DEVLINK
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you want to enable support for the hardware switches supported
by the Distributed Switch Architecture.
config HSR
tristate "High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR)"
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, then your Linux box will be able to act as a
DANH ("Doubly attached node implementing HSR"). For this to work,
your Linux box needs (at least) two physical Ethernet interfaces,
config IEEE802154_6LOWPAN
tristate "6lowpan support over IEEE 802.15.4"
depends on 6LOWPAN
- ---help---
+ help
IPv6 compression over IEEE 802.15.4.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
menuconfig IEEE802154
tristate "IEEE Std 802.15.4 Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks support"
- ---help---
+ help
IEEE Std 802.15.4 defines a low data rate, low power and low
complexity short range wireless personal area networks. It was
designed to organise networks of sensors, switches, etc automation
config IEEE802154_NL802154_EXPERIMENTAL
bool "IEEE 802.15.4 experimental netlink support"
- ---help---
+ help
Adds experimental netlink support for nl802154.
config IEEE802154_SOCKET
tristate "IEEE 802.15.4 socket interface"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Socket interface for IEEE 802.15.4. Contains DGRAM sockets interface
for 802.15.4 dataframes. Also RAW socket interface to build MAC
header from userspace.
config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
bool "IP: advanced router"
- ---help---
+ help
If you intend to run your Linux box mostly as a router, i.e. as a
computer that forwards and redistributes network packets, say Y; you
will then be presented with several options that allow more precise
config IP_FIB_TRIE_STATS
bool "FIB TRIE statistics"
depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
- ---help---
+ help
Keep track of statistics on structure of FIB TRIE table.
Useful for testing and measuring TRIE performance.
bool "IP: policy routing"
depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
select FIB_RULES
- ---help---
+ help
Normally, a router decides what to do with a received packet based
solely on the packet's final destination address. If you say Y here,
the Linux router will also be able to take the packet's source
config IP_PNP_DHCP
bool "IP: DHCP support"
depends on IP_PNP
- ---help---
+ help
If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
config IP_PNP_BOOTP
bool "IP: BOOTP support"
depends on IP_PNP
- ---help---
+ help
If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
tristate "IP: tunneling"
select INET_TUNNEL
select NET_IP_TUNNEL
- ---help---
+ help
Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
config SYN_COOKIES
bool "IP: TCP syncookie support"
- ---help---
+ help
Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN
flooding". This denial-of-service attack prevents legitimate remote
users from being able to connect to your computer during an ongoing
select INET_TUNNEL
select NET_IP_TUNNEL
select XFRM
- ---help---
+ help
Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
encapsulating protocol. This can be used with xfrm mode tunnel to give
tristate "IP: Foo (IP protocols) over UDP"
select XFRM
select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
- ---help---
+ help
Foo over UDP allows any IP protocol to be directly encapsulated
over UDP include tunnels (IPIP, GRE, SIT). By encapsulating in UDP
network mechanisms and optimizations for UDP (such as ECMP
bool "IP: FOU encapsulation of IP tunnels"
depends on NET_IPIP || NET_IPGRE || IPV6_SIT
select NET_FOU
- ---help---
+ help
Allow configuration of FOU or GUE encapsulation for IP tunnels.
When this option is enabled IP tunnels can be configured to use
FOU or GUE encapsulation.
select CRYPTO_HMAC
select CRYPTO_MD5
select CRYPTO_SHA1
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IPsec AH.
If unsure, say Y.
select CRYPTO_SHA1
select CRYPTO_DES
select CRYPTO_ECHAINIV
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IPsec ESP.
If unsure, say Y.
depends on INET_ESP
select XFRM_OFFLOAD
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Support for ESP transformation offload. This makes sense
only if this system really does IPsec and want to do it
with high throughput. A typical desktop system does not
tristate "IP: IPComp transformation"
select INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
select XFRM_IPCOMP
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
typically needed for IPsec.
config INET_DIAG
tristate "INET: socket monitoring interface"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Support for INET (TCP, DCCP, etc) socket monitoring interface used by
native Linux tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently
downloadable at:
tristate "UDP: socket monitoring interface"
depends on INET_DIAG && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Support for UDP socket monitoring interface used by the ss tool.
If unsure, say Y.
tristate "RAW: socket monitoring interface"
depends on INET_DIAG && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Support for RAW socket monitoring interface used by the ss tool.
If unsure, say Y.
bool "INET: allow privileged process to administratively close sockets"
depends on INET_DIAG
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Provides a SOCK_DESTROY operation that allows privileged processes
(e.g., a connection manager or a network administration tool such as
ss) to close sockets opened by other processes. Closing a socket in
menuconfig TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
bool "TCP: advanced congestion control"
- ---help---
+ help
Support for selection of various TCP congestion control
modules.
config TCP_CONG_BIC
tristate "Binary Increase Congestion (BIC) control"
default m
- ---help---
+ help
BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT
fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and
bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes
config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
tristate "CUBIC TCP"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This is version 2.0 of BIC-TCP which uses a cubic growth function
among other techniques.
See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf
config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD
tristate "TCP Westwood+"
default m
- ---help---
+ help
TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno
protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion
control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set
config TCP_CONG_HTCP
tristate "H-TCP"
default m
- ---help---
+ help
H-TCP is a send-side only modifications of the TCP Reno
protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP
congestion control for high speed network links. It uses a
config TCP_CONG_HSTCP
tristate "High Speed TCP"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Sally Floyd's High Speed TCP (RFC 3649) congestion control.
A modification to TCP's congestion control mechanism for use
with large congestion windows. A table indicates how much to
config TCP_CONG_HYBLA
tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
TCP-Hybla is a sender-side only change that eliminates penalization of
long-RTT, large-bandwidth connections, like when satellite legs are
involved, especially when sharing a common bottleneck with normal
config TCP_CONG_VEGAS
tristate "TCP Vegas"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates
the onset of congestion by estimating the bandwidth. TCP Vegas
adjusts the sending rate by modifying the congestion
config TCP_CONG_NV
tristate "TCP NV"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
TCP NV is a follow up to TCP Vegas. It has been modified to deal with
10G networks, measurement noise introduced by LRO, GRO and interrupt
coalescence. In addition, it will decrease its cwnd multiplicatively
config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE
tristate "Scalable TCP"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Scalable TCP is a sender-side only change to TCP which uses a
MIMD congestion control algorithm which has some nice scaling
properties, though is known to have fairness issues.
config TCP_CONG_LP
tristate "TCP Low Priority"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
TCP Low Priority (TCP-LP), a distributed algorithm whose goal is
to utilize only the excess network bandwidth as compared to the
``fair share`` of bandwidth as targeted by TCP.
config TCP_CONG_VENO
tristate "TCP Veno"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
TCP Veno is a sender-side only enhancement of TCP to obtain better
throughput over wireless networks. TCP Veno makes use of state
distinguishing to circumvent the difficult judgment of the packet loss
tristate "YeAH TCP"
select TCP_CONG_VEGAS
default n
- ---help---
+ help
YeAH-TCP is a sender-side high-speed enabled TCP congestion control
algorithm, which uses a mixed loss/delay approach to compute the
congestion window. It's design goals target high efficiency,
config TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS
tristate "TCP Illinois"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
TCP-Illinois is a sender-side modification of TCP Reno for
high speed long delay links. It uses round-trip-time to
adjust the alpha and beta parameters to achieve a higher average
config TCP_CONG_DCTCP
tristate "DataCenter TCP (DCTCP)"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
DCTCP leverages Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in the network to
provide multi-bit feedback to the end hosts. It is designed to provide:
config TCP_CONG_CDG
tristate "CAIA Delay-Gradient (CDG)"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
CAIA Delay-Gradient (CDG) is a TCP congestion control that modifies
the TCP sender in order to:
config TCP_CONG_BBR
tristate "BBR TCP"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT) TCP congestion control aims to
maximize network utilization and minimize queues. It builds an explicit
bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option support (RFC2385)"
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_MD5
- ---help---
+ help
RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers
on the Internet.
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
default NF_NAT && NF_CONNTRACK_SNMP
select ASN1
- ---help---
+ help
This module implements an Application Layer Gateway (ALG) for
SNMP payloads. In conjunction with NAT, it allows a network
tristate '"ecn" match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_ECN
- ---help---
+ help
This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience
(e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_ECN.
tristate '"rpfilter" reverse path filter match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
depends on IP_NF_MANGLE || IP_NF_RAW
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows you to match packets whose replies would
go out via the interface the packet came in.
tristate '"ttl" match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HL
- ---help---
+ help
This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience
(e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HL.
tristate "NETMAP target support"
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NETMAP
- ---help---
+ help
This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience
(e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NETMAP.
tristate "REDIRECT target support"
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_REDIRECT
- ---help---
+ help
This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience
(e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_REDIRECT.
tristate "ECN target support"
depends on IP_NF_MANGLE
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a `ECN' target, which can be used in the iptables mangle
table.
tristate '"TTL" target support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED && IP_NF_MANGLE
select NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_HL
- ---help---
+ help
This is a backwards-compatible option for the user's convenience
(e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_HL.
menuconfig IPV6
tristate "The IPv6 protocol"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IP version 6 (IPv6).
For general information about IPv6, see
config IPV6_ROUTER_PREF
bool "IPv6: Router Preference (RFC 4191) support"
- ---help---
+ help
Router Preference is an optional extension to the Router
Advertisement message which improves the ability of hosts
to pick an appropriate router, especially when the hosts
config IPV6_ROUTE_INFO
bool "IPv6: Route Information (RFC 4191) support"
depends on IPV6_ROUTER_PREF
- ---help---
+ help
Support of Route Information.
If unsure, say N.
config IPV6_OPTIMISTIC_DAD
bool "IPv6: Enable RFC 4429 Optimistic DAD"
- ---help---
+ help
Support for optimistic Duplicate Address Detection. It allows for
autoconfigured addresses to be used more quickly.
select CRYPTO_HMAC
select CRYPTO_MD5
select CRYPTO_SHA1
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IPsec AH.
If unsure, say Y.
select CRYPTO_SHA1
select CRYPTO_DES
select CRYPTO_ECHAINIV
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IPsec ESP.
If unsure, say Y.
depends on INET6_ESP
select XFRM_OFFLOAD
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Support for ESP transformation offload. This makes sense
only if this system really does IPsec and want to do it
with high throughput. A typical desktop system does not
tristate "IPv6: IPComp transformation"
select INET6_XFRM_TUNNEL
select XFRM_IPCOMP
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
typically needed for IPsec.
config IPV6_MIP6
tristate "IPv6: Mobility"
select XFRM
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IPv6 Mobility described in RFC 3775.
If unsure, say N.
depends on NETFILTER
select DST_CACHE
select LWTUNNEL
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IPv6 Identifier Locator Addressing (ILA).
ILA is a mechanism to do network virtualization without
select IPV6_TUNNEL
select NET_IP_TUNNEL
select XFRM
- ---help---
+ help
Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
encapsulating protocol. This can be used with xfrm mode tunnel to give
select NET_IP_TUNNEL
select IPV6_NDISC_NODETYPE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
encapsulating protocol. This driver implements encapsulation of IPv6
bool "IPv6: IPv6 Rapid Deployment (6RD)"
depends on IPV6_SIT
default n
- ---help---
+ help
IPv6 Rapid Deployment (6rd; draft-ietf-softwire-ipv6-6rd) builds upon
mechanisms of 6to4 (RFC3056) to enable a service provider to rapidly
deploy IPv6 unicast service to IPv4 sites to which it provides
select INET6_TUNNEL
select DST_CACHE
select GRO_CELLS
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IPv6-in-IPv6 and IPv4-in-IPv6 tunnels described in
RFC 2473.
select IPV6_TUNNEL
select NET_IP_TUNNEL
depends on NET_IPGRE_DEMUX
- ---help---
+ help
Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
config IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES
bool "IPv6: Multiple Routing Tables"
select FIB_RULES
- ---help---
+ help
Support multiple routing tables.
config IPV6_SUBTREES
bool "IPv6: source address based routing"
depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES
- ---help---
+ help
Enable routing by source address or prefix.
The destination address is still the primary routing key, so mixing
bool "IPv6: multicast routing"
depends on IPV6
select IP_MROUTE_COMMON
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IPv6 multicast forwarding.
If unsure, say N.
config IPV6_PIMSM_V2
bool "IPv6: PIM-SM version 2 support"
depends on IPV6_MROUTE
- ---help---
+ help
Support for IPv6 PIM multicast routing protocol PIM-SMv2.
If unsure, say N.
select LWTUNNEL
select DST_CACHE
select IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES
- ---help---
+ help
Support for encapsulation of packets within an outer IPv6
header and a Segment Routing Header using the lightweight
tunnels mechanism. Also enable support for advanced local
select CRYPTO_HMAC
select CRYPTO_SHA1
select CRYPTO_SHA256
- ---help---
+ help
Support for HMAC signature generation and verification
of SR-enabled packets.
bool "IPv6: RPL Source Routing Header support"
depends on IPV6
select LWTUNNEL
- ---help---
+ help
Support for RFC6554 RPL Source Routing Header using the lightweight
tunnels mechanism.
tristate '"hl" hoplimit match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HL
- ---help---
+ help
This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience
(e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HL.
tristate '"rpfilter" reverse path filter match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
depends on IP6_NF_MANGLE || IP6_NF_RAW
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows you to match packets whose replies would
go out via the interface the packet came in.
tristate '"HL" hoplimit target support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED && IP6_NF_MANGLE
select NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_HL
- ---help---
+ help
This is a backwards-compatible option for the user's convenience
(e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_HL.
depends on INET
select BPF_SYSCALL
select STREAM_PARSER
- ---help---
+ help
KCM (Kernel Connection Multiplexor) sockets provide a method
for multiplexing messages of a message based application
protocol over kernel connectons (e.g. TCP connections).
depends on (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
depends on INET
select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
- ---help---
+ help
Layer Two Tunneling Protocol
From RFC 2661 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2661.txt>.
config NET_L3_MASTER_DEV
bool "L3 Master device support"
depends on INET || IPV6
- ---help---
+ help
This module provides glue between core networking code and device
drivers to support L3 master devices like VRF.
config LAPB
tristate "LAPB Data Link Driver"
- ---help---
+ help
Link Access Procedure, Balanced (LAPB) is the data link layer (i.e.
the lower) part of the X.25 protocol. It offers a reliable
connection service to exchange data frames with one other host, and
select CRYPTO_GCM
select CRYPTO_CMAC
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the hardware independent IEEE 802.11
networking stack.
bool "Minstrel" if EXPERT
select MAC80211_HAS_RC
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the 'minstrel' TX rate control algorithm
choice
prompt "Default rate control algorithm"
depends on MAC80211_HAS_RC
default MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT_MINSTREL
- ---help---
+ help
This option selects the default rate control algorithm
mac80211 will use. Note that this default can still be
overridden through the ieee80211_default_rc_algo module
config MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT_MINSTREL
bool "Minstrel"
depends on MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL
- ---help---
+ help
Select Minstrel as the default rate control algorithm.
config MAC80211_MESH
bool "Enable mac80211 mesh networking support"
depends on MAC80211
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option to enable 802.11 mesh operation in mac80211
drivers that support it. 802.11 mesh connects multiple stations
over (possibly multi-hop) wireless links to form a single logical
depends on MAC80211
depends on LEDS_CLASS
select LEDS_TRIGGERS
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables a few LED triggers for different
packet receive/transmit events.
config MAC80211_DEBUGFS
bool "Export mac80211 internals in DebugFS"
depends on MAC80211 && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Select this to see extensive information about
the internal state of mac80211 in debugfs.
config MAC80211_MESSAGE_TRACING
bool "Trace all mac80211 debug messages"
depends on MAC80211
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option to have mac80211 register the
mac80211_msg trace subsystem with tracepoints to
collect all debugging messages, independent of
menuconfig MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
bool "Select mac80211 debugging features"
depends on MAC80211
- ---help---
+ help
This option collects various mac80211 debug settings.
config MAC80211_NOINLINE
bool "Do not inline TX/RX handlers"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
- ---help---
+ help
This option affects code generation in mac80211, when
selected some functions are marked "noinline" to allow
easier debugging of problems in the transmit and receive
config MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG
bool "Verbose debugging output"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out
many debugging messages. It should not be selected
on production systems as some of the messages are
config MAC80211_MLME_DEBUG
bool "Verbose managed MLME output"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out
debugging messages for the managed-mode MLME. It
should not be selected on production systems as some
config MAC80211_STA_DEBUG
bool "Verbose station debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out
debugging messages for station addition/removal.
config MAC80211_HT_DEBUG
bool "Verbose HT debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables 802.11n High Throughput features
debug tracing output.
config MAC80211_OCB_DEBUG
bool "Verbose OCB debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out
very verbose OCB debugging messages. It should not
be selected on production systems as those messages
config MAC80211_IBSS_DEBUG
bool "Verbose IBSS debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out
very verbose IBSS debugging messages. It should not
be selected on production systems as those messages
config MAC80211_PS_DEBUG
bool "Verbose powersave mode debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out very
verbose power save mode debugging messages (when mac80211
is an AP and has power saving stations.)
bool "Verbose mesh peer link debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
depends on MAC80211_MESH
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out very
verbose mesh peer link debugging messages (when mac80211
is taking part in a mesh network).
bool "Verbose mesh path debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
depends on MAC80211_MESH
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out very
verbose mesh path selection debugging messages (when mac80211
is taking part in a mesh network).
bool "Verbose mesh HWMP routing debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
depends on MAC80211_MESH
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out very
verbose mesh routing (HWMP) debugging messages (when mac80211
is taking part in a mesh network).
bool "Verbose mesh synchronization debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
depends on MAC80211_MESH
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out very verbose mesh
synchronization debugging messages (when mac80211 is taking part in a
mesh network).
bool "Verbose mesh channel switch debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
depends on MAC80211_MESH
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out very verbose mesh
channel switch debugging messages (when mac80211 is taking part in a
mesh network).
bool "Verbose mesh powersave debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
depends on MAC80211_MESH
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out very verbose mesh
powersave debugging messages (when mac80211 is taking part in a
mesh network).
config MAC80211_TDLS_DEBUG
bool "Verbose TDLS debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to print out very
verbose TDLS selection debugging messages (when mac80211
is a TDLS STA).
bool "Extra statistics for TX/RX debugging"
depends on MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
depends on MAC80211_DEBUGFS
- ---help---
+ help
Selecting this option causes mac80211 to keep additional
and very verbose statistics about TX and RX handler use
as well as a few selected dot11 counters. These will be
config MAC80211_STA_HASH_MAX_SIZE
int "Station hash table maximum size" if MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU
default 0
- ---help---
+ help
Setting this option to a low value (e.g. 4) allows testing the
hash table with collisions relatively deterministically (just
connect more stations than the number selected here.)
select CRYPTO_CCM
select CRYPTO_CTR
select CRYPTO_AES
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the hardware independent IEEE 802.15.4
networking stack for SoftMAC devices (the ones implementing
only PHY level of IEEE 802.15.4 standard).
menuconfig MPLS
bool "MultiProtocol Label Switching"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
MultiProtocol Label Switching routes packets through logical
circuits. Originally conceived as a way of routing packets at
hardware speeds (before hardware was capable of routing ipv4 packets),
tristate "MPLS: routing support"
depends on NET_IP_TUNNEL || NET_IP_TUNNEL=n
depends on PROC_SYSCTL
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for forwarding of mpls packets.
config MPLS_IPTUNNEL
tristate "MPLS: IP over MPLS tunnel support"
depends on LWTUNNEL && MPLS_ROUTING
- ---help---
+ help
mpls ip tunnel support.
endif # MPLS
config NET_NCSI
bool "NCSI interface support"
depends on INET
- ---help---
+ help
This module provides NCSI (Network Controller Sideband Interface)
support. Enable this only if your system connects to a network
device via NCSI and the ethernet driver you're using supports
config NCSI_OEM_CMD_GET_MAC
bool "Get NCSI OEM MAC Address"
depends on NET_NCSI
- ---help---
+ help
This allows to get MAC address from NCSI firmware and set them back to
controller.
bool "Supply CT list in procfs (OBSOLETE)"
default y
depends on PROC_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables for the list of known conntrack entries
to be shown in procfs under net/netfilter/nf_conntrack. This
is considered obsolete in favor of using the conntrack(8)
config NETFILTER_XT_MARK
tristate 'nfmark target and match support'
default m if NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds the "MARK" target and "mark" match.
Netfilter mark matching allows you to match packets based on the
depends on NF_CONNTRACK
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NF_CONNTRACK_MARK
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds the "CONNMARK" target and "connmark" match.
Netfilter allows you to store a mark value per connection (a.k.a.
tristate "AUDIT target support"
depends on AUDIT
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a 'AUDIT' target, which can be used to create
audit records for packets dropped/accepted.
tristate "CHECKSUM target support"
depends on IP_NF_MANGLE || IP6_NF_MANGLE
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a `CHECKSUM' target, which can be used in the iptables mangle
table to work around buggy DHCP clients in virtualized environments.
depends on NF_CONNTRACK
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NETFILTER_XT_CONNMARK
- ---help---
+ help
This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience
(e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_CONNMARK (combined connmark/CONNMARK module).
tristate '"HL" hoplimit target support'
depends on IP_NF_MANGLE || IP6_NF_MANGLE
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds the "HL" (for IPv6) and "TTL" (for IPv4)
targets, which enable the user to change the
hoplimit/time-to-live value of the IP header.
tristate '"HMARK" target support'
depends on IP6_NF_IPTABLES || IP6_NF_IPTABLES=n
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds the "HMARK" target.
The target allows you to create rules in the "raw" and "mangle" tables
tristate '"MARK" target support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NETFILTER_XT_MARK
- ---help---
+ help
This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience
(e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MARK (combined mark/MARK module).
config NETFILTER_XT_NAT
tristate '"SNAT and DNAT" targets support'
depends on NF_NAT
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the SNAT and DNAT targets.
To compile it as a module, choose M here. If unsure, say N.
config NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NETMAP
tristate '"NETMAP" target support'
depends on NF_NAT
- ---help---
+ help
NETMAP is an implementation of static 1:1 NAT mapping of network
addresses. It maps the network address part, while keeping the host
address part intact.
tristate "REDIRECT target support"
depends on NF_NAT
select NF_NAT_REDIRECT
- ---help---
+ help
REDIRECT is a special case of NAT: all incoming connections are
mapped onto the incoming interface's address, causing the packets to
come to the local machine instead of passing through. This is
depends on IP6_NF_IPTABLES || !IP6_NF_IPTABLES
select NF_DUP_IPV4
select NF_DUP_IPV6 if IP6_NF_IPTABLES
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a "TEE" target with which a packet can be cloned and
this clone be rerouted to another nexthop.
tristate '"TCPMSS" target support'
depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
default m if NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a `TCPMSS' target, which allows you to alter the
MSS value of TCP SYN packets, to control the maximum size for that
connection (usually limiting it to your outgoing interface's MTU
config NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_ADDRTYPE
tristate '"addrtype" address type match support'
default m if NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows you to match what routing thinks of an address,
eg. UNICAST, LOCAL, BROADCAST, ...
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
depends on CGROUPS
select CGROUP_NET_CLASSID
- ---help---
+ help
Socket/process control group matching allows you to match locally
generated packets based on which net_cls control group processes
belong to.
tristate '"cluster" match support'
depends on NF_CONNTRACK
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows you to build work-load-sharing clusters of
network servers/stateful firewalls without having a dedicated
load-balancing router/server/switch. Basically, this match returns
select NF_CONNTRACK_LABELS
depends on NF_CONNTRACK
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This match allows you to test and assign userspace-defined labels names
to a connection. The kernel only stores bit values - mapping
names to bits is done by userspace.
depends on NF_CONNTRACK
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NETFILTER_CONNCOUNT
- ---help---
+ help
This match allows you to match against the number of parallel
connections to a server per client IP address (or address block).
depends on NF_CONNTRACK
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NETFILTER_XT_CONNMARK
- ---help---
+ help
This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience
(e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_CONNMARK (combined connmark/CONNMARK module).
config NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_ECN
tristate '"ecn" match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds an "ECN" match, which allows you to match against
the IPv4 and TCP header ECN fields.
config NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HL
tristate '"hl" hoplimit/TTL match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
HL matching allows you to match packets based on the hoplimit
in the IPv6 header, or the time-to-live field in the IPv4
header of the packet.
config NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_IPRANGE
tristate '"iprange" address range match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a "iprange" match, which allows you to match based on
an IP address range. (Normal iptables only matches on single addresses
with an optional mask.)
tristate '"l2tp" match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
default L2TP
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds an "L2TP" match, which allows you to match against
L2TP protocol header fields.
tristate '"mark" match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
select NETFILTER_XT_MARK
- ---help---
+ help
This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience
(e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MARK (combined mark/MARK module).
config NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_OWNER
tristate '"owner" match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
Socket owner matching allows you to match locally-generated packets
based on who created the socket: the user or group. It is also
possible to check whether a socket actually exists.
config NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_RECENT
tristate '"recent" match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This match is used for creating one or many lists of recently
used addresses and then matching against that/those list(s).
config NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_TIME
tristate '"time" match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a "time" match, which allows you to match based on
the packet arrival time (at the machine which netfilter is running)
on) or departure time/date (for locally generated packets).
config NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_U32
tristate '"u32" match support'
depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
u32 allows you to extract quantities of up to 4 bytes from a packet,
AND them with specified masks, shift them by specified amounts and
test whether the results are in any of a set of specified ranges.
tristate "IP virtual server support"
depends on NET && INET && NETFILTER
depends on (NF_CONNTRACK || NF_CONNTRACK=n)
- ---help---
+ help
IP Virtual Server support will let you build a high-performance
virtual server based on cluster of two or more real servers. This
option must be enabled for at least one of the clustered computers
depends on IPV6 = y || IP_VS = IPV6
select IP6_NF_IPTABLES
select NF_DEFRAG_IPV6
- ---help---
+ help
Add IPv6 support to IPVS.
Say Y if unsure.
config IP_VS_DEBUG
bool "IP virtual server debugging"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to get additional messages useful in
debugging the IP virtual server code. You can change the debug
level in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/debug_level
int "IPVS connection table size (the Nth power of 2)"
range 8 20
default 12
- ---help---
+ help
The IPVS connection hash table uses the chaining scheme to handle
hash collisions. Using a big IPVS connection hash table will greatly
reduce conflicts when there are hundreds of thousands of connections
config IP_VS_PROTO_TCP
bool "TCP load balancing support"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for load balancing TCP transport
protocol. Say Y if unsure.
config IP_VS_PROTO_UDP
bool "UDP load balancing support"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for load balancing UDP transport
protocol. Say Y if unsure.
config IP_VS_PROTO_ESP
bool "ESP load balancing support"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for load balancing ESP (Encapsulation
Security Payload) transport protocol. Say Y if unsure.
config IP_VS_PROTO_AH
bool "AH load balancing support"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for load balancing AH (Authentication
Header) transport protocol. Say Y if unsure.
config IP_VS_PROTO_SCTP
bool "SCTP load balancing support"
select LIBCRC32C
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for load balancing SCTP transport
protocol. Say Y if unsure.
config IP_VS_RR
tristate "round-robin scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The robin-robin scheduling algorithm simply directs network
connections to different real servers in a round-robin manner.
config IP_VS_WRR
tristate "weighted round-robin scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The weighted robin-robin scheduling algorithm directs network
connections to different real servers based on server weights
in a round-robin manner. Servers with higher weights receive
config IP_VS_LC
tristate "least-connection scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The least-connection scheduling algorithm directs network
connections to the server with the least number of active
connections.
config IP_VS_WLC
tristate "weighted least-connection scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The weighted least-connection scheduling algorithm directs network
connections to the server with the least active connections
normalized by the server weight.
config IP_VS_FO
tristate "weighted failover scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The weighted failover scheduling algorithm directs network
connections to the server with the highest weight that is
currently available.
config IP_VS_OVF
tristate "weighted overflow scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The weighted overflow scheduling algorithm directs network
connections to the server with the highest weight that is
currently available and overflows to the next when active
config IP_VS_LBLC
tristate "locality-based least-connection scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The locality-based least-connection scheduling algorithm is for
destination IP load balancing. It is usually used in cache cluster.
This algorithm usually directs packet destined for an IP address to
config IP_VS_LBLCR
tristate "locality-based least-connection with replication scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The locality-based least-connection with replication scheduling
algorithm is also for destination IP load balancing. It is
usually used in cache cluster. It differs from the LBLC scheduling
config IP_VS_DH
tristate "destination hashing scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The destination hashing scheduling algorithm assigns network
connections to the servers through looking up a statically assigned
hash table by their destination IP addresses.
config IP_VS_SH
tristate "source hashing scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The source hashing scheduling algorithm assigns network
connections to the servers through looking up a statically assigned
hash table by their source IP addresses.
config IP_VS_MH
tristate "maglev hashing scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The maglev consistent hashing scheduling algorithm provides the
Google's Maglev hashing algorithm as a IPVS scheduler. It assigns
network connections to the servers through looking up a statically
config IP_VS_SED
tristate "shortest expected delay scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The shortest expected delay scheduling algorithm assigns network
connections to the server with the shortest expected delay. The
expected delay that the job will experience is (Ci + 1) / Ui if
config IP_VS_NQ
tristate "never queue scheduling"
- ---help---
+ help
The never queue scheduling algorithm adopts a two-speed model.
When there is an idle server available, the job will be sent to
the idle server, instead of waiting for a fast one. When there
int "IPVS source hashing table size (the Nth power of 2)"
range 4 20
default 8
- ---help---
+ help
The source hashing scheduler maps source IPs to destinations
stored in a hash table. This table is tiled by each destination
until all slots in the table are filled. When using weights to
int "IPVS maglev hashing table index of size (the prime numbers)"
range 8 17
default 12
- ---help---
+ help
The maglev hashing scheduler maps source IPs to destinations
stored in a hash table. This table is assigned by a preference
list of the positions to each destination until all slots in
depends on IP_VS_PROTO_TCP && NF_CONNTRACK && NF_NAT && \
NF_CONNTRACK_FTP
select IP_VS_NFCT
- ---help---
+ help
FTP is a protocol that transfers IP address and/or port number in
the payload. In the virtual server via Network Address Translation,
the IP address and port number of real servers cannot be sent to
config IP_VS_NFCT
bool "Netfilter connection tracking"
depends on NF_CONNTRACK
- ---help---
+ help
The Netfilter connection tracking support allows the IPVS
connection state to be exported to the Netfilter framework
for filtering purposes.
tristate "SIP persistence engine"
depends on IP_VS_PROTO_UDP
depends on NF_CONNTRACK_SIP
- ---help---
+ help
Allow persistence based on the SIP Call-ID
endif # IP_VS
depends on SECURITY
select CRC_CCITT if IPV6
default n
- ---help---
+ help
NetLabel provides support for explicit network packet labeling
protocols such as CIPSO and RIPSO. For more information see
Documentation/netlabel as well as the NetLabel SourceForge project
config NETLINK_DIAG
tristate "NETLINK: socket monitoring interface"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Support for NETLINK socket monitoring interface used by the ss tool.
If unsure, say Y.
select CRC_CCITT
bool "SHDLC link layer for HCI based NFC drivers"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say yes if you use an NFC HCI driver that requires SHDLC link layer.
If unsure, say N here.
menuconfig NET_NSH
tristate "Network Service Header (NSH) protocol"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Network Service Header is an implementation of Service Function
Chaining (RFC 7665). The current implementation in Linux supports
only MD type 1 and only with the openvswitch module.
select NET_MPLS_GSO
select DST_CACHE
select NET_NSH
- ---help---
+ help
Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized
environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features
expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained
depends on OPENVSWITCH
depends on NET_IPGRE
default OPENVSWITCH
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, then the Open vSwitch will be able create GRE
vport.
depends on OPENVSWITCH
depends on VXLAN
default OPENVSWITCH
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, then the Open vSwitch will be able create vxlan vport.
Say N to exclude this support and reduce the binary size.
depends on OPENVSWITCH
depends on GENEVE
default OPENVSWITCH
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, then the Open vSwitch will be able create geneve vport.
Say N to exclude this support and reduce the binary size.
config PACKET
tristate "Packet socket"
- ---help---
+ help
The Packet protocol is used by applications which communicate
directly with network devices without an intermediate network
protocol implemented in the kernel, e.g. tcpdump. If you want them
tristate "Packet: sockets monitoring interface"
depends on PACKET
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Support for PF_PACKET sockets monitoring interface used by the ss tool.
If unsure, say Y.
config QRTR
tristate "Qualcomm IPC Router support"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you intend to use Qualcomm IPC router protocol. The
protocol is used to communicate with services provided by other
hardware blocks in the system.
config QRTR_SMD
tristate "SMD IPC Router channels"
depends on RPMSG || (COMPILE_TEST && RPMSG=n)
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to support SMD based ipcrouter channels. SMD is the
most common transport for IPC Router.
config QRTR_TUN
tristate "TUN device for Qualcomm IPC Router"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to expose a character device that allows user space to
implement endpoints of QRTR, for purpose of tunneling data to other
hosts or testing purposes.
config RDS
tristate "The Reliable Datagram Sockets Protocol"
depends on INET
- ---help---
+ help
The RDS (Reliable Datagram Sockets) protocol provides reliable,
sequenced delivery of datagrams over Infiniband or TCP.
config RDS_RDMA
tristate "RDS over Infiniband"
depends on RDS && INFINIBAND && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS
- ---help---
+ help
Allow RDS to use Infiniband as a transport.
This transport supports RDMA operations.
tristate "RDS over TCP"
depends on RDS
depends on IPV6 || !IPV6
- ---help---
+ help
Allow RDS to use TCP as a transport.
This transport does not support RDMA operations.
menuconfig NET_SCHED
bool "QoS and/or fair queueing"
select NET_SCH_FIFO
- ---help---
+ help
When the kernel has several packets to send out over a network
device, it has to decide which ones to send first, which ones to
delay, and which ones to drop. This is the job of the queueing
config NET_SCH_CBQ
tristate "Class Based Queueing (CBQ)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the Class-Based Queueing (CBQ) packet
scheduling algorithm. This algorithm classifies the waiting packets
into a tree-like hierarchy of classes; the leaves of this tree are
config NET_SCH_HTB
tristate "Hierarchical Token Bucket (HTB)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the Hierarchical Token Buckets (HTB)
packet scheduling algorithm. See
<http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/> for complete manual and
config NET_SCH_HFSC
tristate "Hierarchical Fair Service Curve (HFSC)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the Hierarchical Fair Service Curve
(HFSC) packet scheduling algorithm.
config NET_SCH_ATM
tristate "ATM Virtual Circuits (ATM)"
depends on ATM
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the ATM pseudo-scheduler. This
provides a framework for invoking classifiers, which in turn
select classes of this queuing discipline. Each class maps
config NET_SCH_PRIO
tristate "Multi Band Priority Queueing (PRIO)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use an n-band priority queue packet
scheduler.
config NET_SCH_MULTIQ
tristate "Hardware Multiqueue-aware Multi Band Queuing (MULTIQ)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use an n-band queue packet scheduler
to support devices that have multiple hardware transmit queues.
config NET_SCH_RED
tristate "Random Early Detection (RED)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the Random Early Detection (RED)
packet scheduling algorithm.
config NET_SCH_SFB
tristate "Stochastic Fair Blue (SFB)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the Stochastic Fair Blue (SFB)
packet scheduling algorithm.
config NET_SCH_SFQ
tristate "Stochastic Fairness Queueing (SFQ)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the Stochastic Fairness Queueing (SFQ)
packet scheduling algorithm.
config NET_SCH_TEQL
tristate "True Link Equalizer (TEQL)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the True Link Equalizer (TLE) packet
scheduling algorithm. This queueing discipline allows the combination
of several physical devices into one virtual device.
config NET_SCH_TBF
tristate "Token Bucket Filter (TBF)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the Token Bucket Filter (TBF) packet
scheduling algorithm.
config NET_SCH_CBS
tristate "Credit Based Shaper (CBS)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the Credit Based Shaper (CBS) packet
scheduling algorithm.
config NET_SCH_GRED
tristate "Generic Random Early Detection (GRED)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use the Generic Random Early Detection
(GRED) packet scheduling algorithm for some of your network devices
(see the top of <file:net/sched/sch_red.c> for details and
config NET_SCH_DSMARK
tristate "Differentiated Services marker (DSMARK)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you want to schedule packets according to the
Differentiated Services architecture proposed in RFC 2475.
Technical information on this method, with pointers to associated
config NET_SCH_NETEM
tristate "Network emulator (NETEM)"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you want to emulate network delay, loss, and packet
re-ordering. This is often useful to simulate networks when
testing applications or protocols.
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
select NET_INGRESS
select NET_EGRESS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use classifiers for incoming and/or outgoing
packets. This qdisc doesn't do anything else besides running classifiers,
which can also have actions attached to them. In case of outgoing packets,
config NET_SCH_PLUG
tristate "Plug network traffic until release (PLUG)"
- ---help---
+ help
This queuing discipline allows userspace to plug/unplug a network
output queue, using the netlink interface. When it receives an
menuconfig NET_SCH_DEFAULT
bool "Allow override default queue discipline"
- ---help---
+ help
Support for selection of default queuing discipline.
Nearly all users can safely say no here, and the default
config NET_CLS_BASIC
tristate "Elementary classification (BASIC)"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to classify packets using
only extended matches and actions.
config NET_CLS_TCINDEX
tristate "Traffic-Control Index (TCINDEX)"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to classify packets based on
traffic control indices. You will want this feature if you want
to implement Differentiated Services together with DSMARK.
depends on INET
select IP_ROUTE_CLASSID
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you will be able to classify packets
according to the route table entry they matched.
config NET_CLS_FW
tristate "Netfilter mark (FW)"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you will be able to classify packets
according to netfilter/firewall marks.
config NET_CLS_U32
tristate "Universal 32bit comparisons w/ hashing (U32)"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to be able to classify packets using a universal
32bit pieces based comparison scheme.
config CLS_U32_PERF
bool "Performance counters support"
depends on NET_CLS_U32
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to make u32 gather additional statistics useful for
fine tuning u32 classifiers.
config CLS_U32_MARK
bool "Netfilter marks support"
depends on NET_CLS_U32
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to be able to use netfilter marks as u32 key.
config NET_CLS_RSVP
tristate "IPv4 Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
The Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) permits end systems to
request a minimum and maximum data flow rate for a connection; this
is important for real time data such as streaming sound or video.
config NET_CLS_RSVP6
tristate "IPv6 Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP6)"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
The Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) permits end systems to
request a minimum and maximum data flow rate for a connection; this
is important for real time data such as streaming sound or video.
config NET_CLS_FLOW
tristate "Flow classifier"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you will be able to classify packets based on
a configurable combination of packet keys. This is mostly useful
in combination with SFQ.
select NET_CLS
select CGROUP_NET_CLASSID
depends on CGROUPS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to classify packets based on the control
cgroup of their process.
config NET_CLS_BPF
tristate "BPF-based classifier"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you will be able to classify packets based on
programmable BPF (JIT'ed) filters as an alternative to ematches.
config NET_CLS_FLOWER
tristate "Flower classifier"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you will be able to classify packets based on
a configurable combination of packet keys and masks.
config NET_CLS_MATCHALL
tristate "Match-all classifier"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you will be able to classify packets based on
nothing. Every packet will match.
config NET_EMATCH
bool "Extended Matches"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use extended matches on top of classifiers
and select the extended matches below.
int "Stack size"
depends on NET_EMATCH
default "32"
- ---help---
+ help
Size of the local stack variable used while evaluating the tree of
ematches. Limits the depth of the tree, i.e. the number of
encapsulated precedences. Every level requires 4 bytes of additional
config NET_EMATCH_CMP
tristate "Simple packet data comparison"
depends on NET_EMATCH
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to classify packets based on
simple packet data comparisons for 8, 16, and 32bit values.
config NET_EMATCH_NBYTE
tristate "Multi byte comparison"
depends on NET_EMATCH
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to classify packets based on
multiple byte comparisons mainly useful for IPv6 address comparisons.
config NET_EMATCH_U32
tristate "U32 key"
depends on NET_EMATCH
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to classify packets using
the famous u32 key in combination with logic relations.
config NET_EMATCH_META
tristate "Metadata"
depends on NET_EMATCH
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to classify packets based on
metadata such as load average, netfilter attributes, socket
attributes and routing decisions.
select TEXTSEARCH_KMP
select TEXTSEARCH_BM
select TEXTSEARCH_FSM
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to classify packets based on
textsearch comparisons.
config NET_EMATCH_CANID
tristate "CAN Identifier"
depends on NET_EMATCH && (CAN=y || CAN=m)
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to classify CAN frames based
on CAN Identifier.
config NET_EMATCH_IPSET
tristate "IPset"
depends on NET_EMATCH && IP_SET
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to classify packets based on
ipset membership.
config NET_EMATCH_IPT
tristate "IPtables Matches"
depends on NET_EMATCH && NETFILTER && NETFILTER_XTABLES
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to be able to classify packets based on iptables
matches.
Current supported match is "policy" which allows packet classification
config NET_CLS_ACT
bool "Actions"
select NET_CLS
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to use traffic control actions. Actions
get attached to classifiers and are invoked after a successful
classification. They are used to overwrite the classification
config NET_ACT_POLICE
tristate "Traffic Policing"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to do traffic policing, i.e. strict
bandwidth limiting. This action replaces the existing policing
module.
config NET_ACT_GACT
tristate "Generic actions"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to take generic actions such as dropping and
accepting packets.
config GACT_PROB
bool "Probability support"
depends on NET_ACT_GACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to use the generic action randomly or deterministically.
config NET_ACT_MIRRED
tristate "Redirecting and Mirroring"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to allow packets to be mirrored or redirected to
other devices.
tristate "Traffic Sampling"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
select PSAMPLE
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to allow packet sampling tc action. The packet sample
action consists of statistically choosing packets and sampling
them using the psample module.
config NET_ACT_IPT
tristate "IPtables targets"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT && NETFILTER && IP_NF_IPTABLES
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to be able to invoke iptables targets after successful
classification.
config NET_ACT_NAT
tristate "Stateless NAT"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to do stateless NAT on IPv4 packets. You should use
netfilter for NAT unless you know what you are doing.
config NET_ACT_PEDIT
tristate "Packet Editing"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to mangle the content of packets.
To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the
config NET_ACT_SIMP
tristate "Simple Example (Debug)"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to add a simple action for demonstration purposes.
It is meant as an example and for debugging purposes. It will
print a configured policy string followed by the packet count
config NET_ACT_SKBEDIT
tristate "SKB Editing"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to change skb priority or queue_mapping settings.
If unsure, say N.
tristate "Checksum Updating"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT && INET
select LIBCRC32C
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to update some common checksum after some direct
packet alterations.
config NET_ACT_VLAN
tristate "Vlan manipulation"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to push or pop vlan headers.
If unsure, say N.
config NET_ACT_BPF
tristate "BPF based action"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to execute BPF code on packets. The BPF code will decide
if the packet should be dropped or not.
tristate "Netfilter Connection Mark Retriever"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT && NETFILTER && IP_NF_IPTABLES
depends on NF_CONNTRACK && NF_CONNTRACK_MARK
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to allow retrieving of conn mark
If unsure, say N.
config NET_ACT_SKBMOD
tristate "skb data modification action"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to allow modification of skb data
If unsure, say N.
tristate "Inter-FE action based on IETF ForCES InterFE LFB"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
select NET_IFE
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to allow for sourcing and terminating metadata
For details refer to netdev01 paper:
"Distributing Linux Traffic Control Classifier-Action Subsystem"
config NET_ACT_TUNNEL_KEY
tristate "IP tunnel metadata manipulation"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to set/release ip tunnel metadata.
If unsure, say N.
select CRYPTO_HMAC
select CRYPTO_SHA1
select LIBCRC32C
- ---help---
+ help
Stream Control Transmission Protocol
From RFC 2960 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt>.
config SMC
tristate "SMC socket protocol family"
depends on INET && INFINIBAND
- ---help---
+ help
SMC-R provides a "sockets over RDMA" solution making use of
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology to upgrade
AF_INET TCP connections transparently.
config SMC_DIAG
tristate "SMC: socket monitoring interface"
depends on SMC
- ---help---
+ help
Support for SMC socket monitoring interface used by tools such as
smcss.
config NET_SWITCHDEV
bool "Switch (and switch-ish) device support"
depends on INET
- ---help---
+ help
This module provides glue between core networking code and device
drivers in order to support hardware switch chips in very generic
meaning of the word "switch". This include devices supporting L2/L3 but
menuconfig TIPC
tristate "The TIPC Protocol"
depends on INET
- ---help---
+ help
The Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC) protocol is
specially designed for intra cluster communication. This protocol
originates from Ericsson where it has been used in carrier grade
tristate "TIPC: socket monitoring interface"
depends on TIPC
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Support for TIPC socket monitoring interface used by ss tool.
If unsure, say Y.
select STREAM_PARSER
select NET_SOCK_MSG
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Enable kernel support for TLS protocol. This allows symmetric
encryption handling of the TLS protocol to be done in-kernel.
config UNIX
tristate "Unix domain sockets"
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you will include support for Unix domain sockets;
sockets are the standard Unix mechanism for establishing and
accessing network connections. Many commonly used programs such as
tristate "UNIX: socket monitoring interface"
depends on UNIX
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Support for UNIX socket monitoring interface used by the ss tool.
If unsure, say Y.
# using a different algorithm, though right now they shouldn't
# (this is here rather than below to allow it to be a module)
select CRYPTO_SHA256 if CFG80211_USE_KERNEL_REGDB_KEYS
- ---help---
+ help
cfg80211 is the Linux wireless LAN (802.11) configuration API.
Enable this if you have a wireless device.
bool "cfg80211 certification onus"
depends on EXPERT
default n
- ---help---
+ help
You should disable this option unless you are both capable
and willing to ensure your system will remain regulatory
compliant with the features available under this option.
config CFG80211_REG_CELLULAR_HINTS
bool "cfg80211 regulatory support for cellular base station hints"
depends on CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for parsing regulatory hints
from cellular base stations. If enabled and at least one driver
claims support for parsing cellular base station hints the
config CFG80211_REG_RELAX_NO_IR
bool "cfg80211 support for NO_IR relaxation"
depends on CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for relaxation of the NO_IR flag for
situations that certain regulatory bodies have provided clarifications
on how relaxation can occur. This feature has an inherent dependency on
config CFG80211_DEBUGFS
bool "cfg80211 DebugFS entries"
depends on DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
You can enable this if you want debugfs entries for cfg80211.
If unsure, say N.
bool "lib80211 debugging messages"
depends on LIB80211
default n
- ---help---
+ help
You can enable this if you want verbose debugging messages
from lib80211.
config X25
tristate "CCITT X.25 Packet Layer"
- ---help---
+ help
X.25 is a set of standardized network protocols, similar in scope to
frame relay; the one physical line from your box to the X.25 network
entry point can carry several logical point-to-point connections
config XFRM_USER
tristate "Transformation user configuration interface"
select XFRM_ALGO
- ---help---
+ help
Support for Transformation(XFRM) user configuration interface
like IPsec used by native Linux tools.
config XFRM_INTERFACE
tristate "Transformation virtual interface"
depends on XFRM && IPV6
- ---help---
+ help
This provides a virtual interface to route IPsec traffic.
If unsure, say N.
config XFRM_SUB_POLICY
bool "Transformation sub policy support"
depends on XFRM
- ---help---
+ help
Support sub policy for developers. By using sub policy with main
one, two policies can be applied to the same packet at once.
Policy which lives shorter time in kernel should be a sub.
config XFRM_MIGRATE
bool "Transformation migrate database"
depends on XFRM
- ---help---
+ help
A feature to update locator(s) of a given IPsec security
association dynamically. This feature is required, for
instance, in a Mobile IPv6 environment with IPsec configuration
config XFRM_STATISTICS
bool "Transformation statistics"
depends on XFRM && PROC_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This statistics is not a SNMP/MIB specification but shows
statistics about transformation error (or almost error) factor
at packet processing for developer.
config NET_KEY
tristate "PF_KEY sockets"
select XFRM_ALGO
- ---help---
+ help
PF_KEYv2 socket family, compatible to KAME ones.
They are required if you are going to use IPsec tools ported
from KAME.
bool "PF_KEY MIGRATE"
depends on NET_KEY
select XFRM_MIGRATE
- ---help---
+ help
Add a PF_KEY MIGRATE message to PF_KEYv2 socket family.
The PF_KEY MIGRATE message is used to dynamically update
locator(s) of a given IPsec security association.
bool "Activate without calling userspace policy loader."
default n
depends on SECURITY_TOMOYO
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to activate access control as soon as built-in
policy was loaded. This option will be useful for systems where
operations which can lead to the hijacking of the boot sequence are
default "/sbin/tomoyo-init"
depends on SECURITY_TOMOYO
depends on !SECURITY_TOMOYO_OMIT_USERSPACE_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This is the default pathname of policy loader which is called before
activation. You can override this setting via TOMOYO_loader= kernel
command line option.
default "/sbin/init"
depends on SECURITY_TOMOYO
depends on !SECURITY_TOMOYO_OMIT_USERSPACE_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This is the default pathname of activation trigger.
You can override this setting via TOMOYO_trigger= kernel command line
option. For example, if you pass init=/bin/systemd option, you may
tristate "Apple Onboard Audio driver"
depends on PPC_PMAC
select SND_PCM
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the new driver for the various
Apple Onboard Audio components.
tristate "support Onyx chip"
select I2C
select I2C_POWERMAC
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for the Onyx (pcm3052)
codec chip found in the latest Apple machines
(most of those with digital audio output).
tristate "support TAS chips"
select I2C
select I2C_POWERMAC
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for the tas chips
found in a lot of Apple Machines, especially
iBooks and PowerBooks without digital.
config SND_AOA_TOONIE
tristate "support Toonie chip"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for the toonie codec
found in the Mac Mini. If you have a Mac Mini and
want to hear sound, select this option.
tristate "layout-id fabric"
select SND_AOA_SOUNDBUS
select SND_AOA_SOUNDBUS_I2S
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the layout-id fabric for the Apple Onboard
Audio driver, the module holding it all together
based on the device-tree's layout-id property.
config SND_AOA_SOUNDBUS
tristate "Apple Soundbus support"
select SND_PCM
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the generic driver for the soundbus
support on Apple machines.
config SND_AOA_SOUNDBUS_I2S
tristate "I2S bus support"
depends on SND_AOA_SOUNDBUS && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables support for Apple I2S busses.
select SND_JACK
select REGMAP_I2C if I2C
select REGMAP_SPI if SPI_MASTER
- ---help---
+ help
If you want ASoC support, you should say Y here and also to the
specific driver for your SoC platform below.
depends on PLAT_SAMSUNG || ARCH_EXYNOS || COMPILE_TEST
depends on COMMON_CLK
select SND_SOC_GENERIC_DMAENGINE_PCM
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y or M if you want to add support for codecs attached to
the Samsung SoCs' Audio interfaces. You will also need to
select the audio interfaces to support below.
bool "X86 sound devices"
depends on X86
default y
- ---help---
+ help
X86 sound devices that don't fall under SoC or PCI categories
if SND_X86
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