singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel
will run faster if you say N here.
- Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or
- "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486
- architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro"
- architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards.
-
People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say
Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power
Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here.
See also the <file:Documentation/smp.tex>,
- <file:Documentation/smp.txt>, <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>,
- <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at
+ <file:Documentation/smp.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>.
If you don't know what to do here, say N.
endmenu
-menu "Power management options (ACPI, APM)"
-
-source kernel/power/Kconfig
-
-config APM
- tristate "Advanced Power Management BIOS support"
- depends on PM
- ---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
- reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide
- battery status information, and user-space programs will receive
- notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change).
-
- If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM
- BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time.
-
- Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for
- machines with more than one CPU.
-
- In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location
- and more information, read <file:Documentation/pm.txt> and the
- Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from
- <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>.
-
- This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8)
- manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off
- VESA-compliant "green" monitors.
-
- This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER
- 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green"
- desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver
- may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase.
-
- Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't
- much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get
- random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to
- anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling
- APM in your BIOS).
-
- Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random,
- "weird" problems:
-
- 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is
- enabled.
- 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel
- 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass
- the "no387" option to the kernel
- 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel
- 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling
- all but the first 4 MB of RAM)
- 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked.
- 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/>
- 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings
- 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM
- 10) install a better fan for the CPU
- 11) exchange RAM chips
- 12) exchange the motherboard.
-
- To compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be inserted in
- and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), say M here
- and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module will be called
- apm.
-
-config APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND
- bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND"
- depends on APM
- 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"
- depends on APM
- ---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
- State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls."
- This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this
- feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This
- should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features
- will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn
- this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM
- support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn
- this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba
- T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without
- this feature.
-
-config APM_CPU_IDLE
- bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle"
- depends on APM
- 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
- are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g.,
- 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or
- whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU,
- this option does nothing.)
-
-config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK
- bool "Enable console blanking using APM"
- depends on APM
- 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
- the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight
- when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to
- do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this
- option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your
- backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console,
- especially if you are using gpm.
-
-config APM_RTC_IS_GMT
- bool "RTC stores time in GMT"
- depends on APM
- help
- Say Y here if your RTC (Real Time Clock a.k.a. hardware clock)
- stores the time in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Say N if your RTC
- stores localtime.
-
- It is in fact recommended to store GMT in your RTC, because then you
- don't have to worry about daylight savings time changes. The only
- reason not to use GMT in your RTC is if you also run a broken OS
- that doesn't understand GMT.
-
-config APM_ALLOW_INTS
- bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls"
- depends on APM
- 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
- needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in
- many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you
- suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N.
-
-config APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF
- bool "Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off"
- depends on APM
- help
- Use real mode APM BIOS calls to switch off the computer. This is
- a work-around for a number of buggy BIOSes. Switch this option on if
- your computer crashes instead of powering off properly.
-
-endmenu
-
-
menu "Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA)"
config PCI
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
- (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI;
- newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N.
-
-config EISA
- bool "EISA support"
- depends on ISA
- ---help---
- The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was
- developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus.
-
- The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel
- bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for
- the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and
- 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus.
-
- Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine.
-
- Otherwise, say N.
-
-source "drivers/eisa/Kconfig"
+ inside your box. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N.
source "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig"
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