Merge branches 'x86/mmio', 'x86/delay', 'x86/idle', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/debug',...

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / arch / x86 / Kconfig

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 5d2858119930d1db7c5c13580cc831b627132b48..7dc46ba26fbf56c8ab0bb152ab42f126d8f62bfb 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -533,6 +533,21 @@ config CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT
          Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line.
          If unsure, say Y.
 
+config AMD_IOMMU
+       bool "AMD IOMMU support"
+       select SWIOTLB
+       depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI
+       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
+         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
        bool