| menu "Code maturity level options" | |
| config EXPERIMENTAL | |
| bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" | |
| ---help--- | |
| Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network | |
| drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state | |
| of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of | |
| testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually | |
| known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is | |
| currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage | |
| uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to | |
| avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active | |
| testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it | |
| may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work | |
| in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar | |
| with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers | |
| (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents | |
| <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, | |
| <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and | |
| <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). | |
| This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are | |
| drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are | |
| scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. | |
| Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that | |
| falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires | |
| using these features, you should probably say N here, which will | |
| cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If | |
| you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or | |
| drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. | |
| config CLEAN_COMPILE | |
| bool "Select only drivers expected to compile cleanly" if EXPERIMENTAL | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Select this option if you don't even want to see the option | |
| to configure known-broken drivers. | |
| If unsure, say Y | |
| config BROKEN | |
| bool | |
| depends on !CLEAN_COMPILE | |
| default y | |
| config BROKEN_ON_SMP | |
| bool | |
| depends on BROKEN || !SMP | |
| default y | |
| config LOCK_KERNEL | |
| bool | |
| depends on SMP || PREEMPT | |
| default y | |
| config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT | |
| int | |
| default 32 if !USERMODE | |
| default 128 if USERMODE | |
| help | |
| This is the value of the two limits on the number of argument and of | |
| env.var passed to init from the kernel command line. | |
| endmenu | |
| menu "General setup" | |
| config LOCALVERSION | |
| string "Local version - append to kernel release" | |
| help | |
| Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. | |
| This will show up when you type uname, for example. | |
| The string you set here will be appended after the contents of | |
| any files with a filename matching localversion* in your | |
| object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can | |
| be a maximum of 64 characters. | |
| config SWAP | |
| bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" | |
| depends on MMU | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support | |
| for socalled swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are | |
| used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present | |
| in your computer. If unsure say Y. | |
| config SYSVIPC | |
| bool "System V IPC" | |
| depends on MMU | |
| ---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, | |
| and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if | |
| you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the | |
| DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), | |
| you'll need to say Y here. | |
| You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in | |
| section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from | |
| <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. | |
| config POSIX_MQUEUE | |
| bool "POSIX Message Queues" | |
| depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL | |
| ---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 | |
| programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message | |
| queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. To use this feature you will | |
| also need mqueue library, available from | |
| <http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~wrona/posix_ipc/> | |
| POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' | |
| and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem | |
| operations on message queues. | |
| If unsure, say Y. | |
| config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT | |
| bool "BSD Process Accounting" | |
| help | |
| If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the | |
| kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting | |
| information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about | |
| that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The | |
| information includes things such as creation time, owning user, | |
| command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete | |
| list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is | |
| up to the user level program to do useful things with this | |
| information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. | |
| config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 | |
| bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" | |
| depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written | |
| in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each | |
| process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible | |
| with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools | |
| for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available | |
| at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>. | |
| config SYSCTL | |
| bool "Sysctl support" | |
| ---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 | |
| interface consists of a system call, but if you say Y to "/proc | |
| file system support", a tree of modifiable sysctl entries will be | |
| generated beneath the /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the | |
| files in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this | |
| option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB. | |
| As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless | |
| building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very | |
| limited in memory. | |
| config AUDIT | |
| bool "Auditing support" | |
| default y if SECURITY_SELINUX | |
| help | |
| Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another | |
| kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for | |
| logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call | |
| auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. | |
| config AUDITSYSCALL | |
| bool "Enable system-call auditing support" | |
| depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC64 || ARCH_S390 || IA64 || UML) | |
| default y if SECURITY_SELINUX | |
| help | |
| Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that | |
| can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, | |
| such as SELinux. | |
| config HOTPLUG | |
| bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if !ARCH_S390 | |
| default ARCH_S390 | |
| help | |
| This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree | |
| modules require HOTPLUG functionality, but a module built | |
| outside the kernel tree does. Such modules require Y here. | |
| config KOBJECT_UEVENT | |
| bool "Kernel Userspace Events" | |
| depends on NET | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| This option enables the kernel userspace event layer, which is a | |
| simple mechanism for kernel-to-user communication over a netlink | |
| socket. | |
| The goal of the kernel userspace events layer is to provide a simple | |
| and efficient events system, that notifies userspace about kobject | |
| state changes. This will enable applications to just listen for | |
| events instead of polling system devices and files. | |
| Hotplug events (kobject addition and removal) are also available on | |
| the netlink socket in addition to the execution of /sbin/hotplug if | |
| CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled. | |
| Say Y, unless you are building a system requiring minimal memory | |
| consumption. | |
| config IKCONFIG | |
| bool "Kernel .config support" | |
| ---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 | |
| on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel | |
| image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as | |
| input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. | |
| It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading | |
| /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). | |
| config IKCONFIG_PROC | |
| bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" | |
| depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS | |
| ---help--- | |
| This option enables access to the kernel configuration file | |
| through /proc/config.gz. | |
| config CPUSETS | |
| bool "Cpuset support" | |
| depends on SMP | |
| help | |
| This options will let you create and manage CPUSET's which | |
| allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and | |
| Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. | |
| This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. | |
| Say N if unsure. | |
| menuconfig EMBEDDED | |
| bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" | |
| help | |
| This option allows certain base kernel options and settings | |
| to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized | |
| environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. | |
| Only use this if you really know what you are doing. | |
| config KALLSYMS | |
| bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and | |
| symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel | |
| somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. | |
| config KALLSYMS_ALL | |
| bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" | |
| depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS | |
| help | |
| Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer | |
| OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other | |
| symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, and you | |
| don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. | |
| Say N. | |
| config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS | |
| bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" | |
| depends on KALLSYMS | |
| help | |
| If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with | |
| inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and | |
| turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. | |
| Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be | |
| reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while | |
| you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. | |
| config PRINTK | |
| default y | |
| bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED | |
| help | |
| This option enables normal printk support. Removing it | |
| eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image | |
| and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it | |
| very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is | |
| strongly discouraged. | |
| config BUG | |
| bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing | |
| the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring | |
| numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this | |
| option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. | |
| Just say Y. | |
| config BASE_FULL | |
| default y | |
| bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED | |
| help | |
| Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core | |
| kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, | |
| but may reduce performance. | |
| config FUTEX | |
| bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | |
| support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not | |
| run glibc-based applications correctly. | |
| config EPOLL | |
| bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | |
| support for epoll family of system calls. | |
| config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE | |
| bool "Optimize for size" if EMBEDDED | |
| default y if ARM || H8300 | |
| help | |
| Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc | |
| resulting in a smaller kernel. | |
| WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this | |
| option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config SHMEM | |
| bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED | |
| default y | |
| depends on MMU | |
| help | |
| The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. | |
| It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported | |
| to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this | |
| option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, | |
| which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. | |
| config CC_ALIGN_FUNCTIONS | |
| int "Function alignment" if EMBEDDED | |
| default 0 | |
| help | |
| Align the start of functions to the next power-of-two greater than n, | |
| skipping up to n bytes. For instance, 32 aligns functions | |
| to the next 32-byte boundary, but 24 would align to the next | |
| 32-byte boundary only if this can be done by skipping 23 bytes or less. | |
| Zero means use compiler's default. | |
| config CC_ALIGN_LABELS | |
| int "Label alignment" if EMBEDDED | |
| default 0 | |
| help | |
| Align all branch targets to a power-of-two boundary, skipping | |
| up to n bytes like ALIGN_FUNCTIONS. This option can easily | |
| make code slower, because it must insert dummy operations for | |
| when the branch target is reached in the usual flow of the code. | |
| Zero means use compiler's default. | |
| config CC_ALIGN_LOOPS | |
| int "Loop alignment" if EMBEDDED | |
| default 0 | |
| help | |
| Align loops to a power-of-two boundary, skipping up to n bytes. | |
| Zero means use compiler's default. | |
| config CC_ALIGN_JUMPS | |
| int "Jump alignment" if EMBEDDED | |
| default 0 | |
| help | |
| Align branch targets to a power-of-two boundary, for branch | |
| targets where the targets can only be reached by jumping, | |
| skipping up to n bytes like ALIGN_FUNCTIONS. In this case, | |
| no dummy operations need be executed. | |
| Zero means use compiler's default. | |
| endmenu # General setup | |
| config TINY_SHMEM | |
| default !SHMEM | |
| bool | |
| config BASE_SMALL | |
| int | |
| default 0 if BASE_FULL | |
| default 1 if !BASE_FULL | |
| menu "Loadable module support" | |
| config MODULES | |
| bool "Enable loadable module support" | |
| help | |
| Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can | |
| be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being | |
| permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" | |
| tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, | |
| many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by | |
| answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most | |
| useful for infrequently used options which are not required | |
| for booting. For more information, see the man pages for | |
| modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. | |
| If you say Y here, you will need to run "make | |
| modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ | |
| where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do | |
| this). | |
| If unsure, say Y. | |
| config MODULE_UNLOAD | |
| bool "Module unloading" | |
| depends on MODULES | |
| help | |
| Without this option you will not be able to unload any | |
| modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable | |
| anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and | |
| simpler. If unsure, say Y. | |
| config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD | |
| bool "Forced module unloading" | |
| depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL | |
| help | |
| This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the | |
| kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module | |
| without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to | |
| rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config OBSOLETE_MODPARM | |
| bool | |
| default y | |
| depends on MODULES | |
| help | |
| You need this option to use module parameters on modules which | |
| have not been converted to the new module parameter system yet. | |
| If unsure, say Y. | |
| config MODVERSIONS | |
| bool "Module versioning support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
| depends on MODULES && EXPERIMENTAL | |
| help | |
| Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. | |
| Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules | |
| compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information | |
| to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would | |
| make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If | |
| unsure, say N. | |
| config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL | |
| bool "Source checksum for all modules" | |
| depends on MODULES | |
| help | |
| Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" | |
| field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a | |
| sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers | |
| see exactly which source was used to build a module (since | |
| others sometimes change the module source without updating | |
| the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field | |
| will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. | |
| config KMOD | |
| bool "Automatic kernel module loading" | |
| depends on MODULES | |
| help | |
| Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to | |
| be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the | |
| "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y | |
| here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules | |
| automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it | |
| runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby | |
| loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y. | |
| config STOP_MACHINE | |
| bool | |
| default y | |
| depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU | |
| help | |
| Need stop_machine() primitive. | |
| endmenu |