From 18d22200740b83a5d968d3236c27c310b3e8fda6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joerg Roedel Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:35:06 +0200 Subject: x86, AMD IOMMU: more verbose Kconfig description text This patch replaces the short description text for AMD IOMMU in Kconfig with a more verbose one. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: bhavna.sarathy@amd.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: Joerg Roedel Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 8aae462..b120cff 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -554,7 +554,15 @@ config AMD_IOMMU select SWIOTLB depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI help - Select this to get support for AMD IOMMU hardware in your system. + With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in + your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides + remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you + can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the + system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. + + You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into + your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI + table. # need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround config SWIOTLB -- cgit v1.1