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x86: improve the help text of X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 

Change the CONFIG_X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM help text to display the
32bit/64bit extended platform list. This is as suggested by Ingo.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: shai@scalex86.org
Cc: "Benzi Galili (Benzi@ScaleMP.com)" <benzi@scalemp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Ravikiran G Thirumalai 2009-02-20 16:59:11 -08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent fc6fc7f1b1
commit 8425091ff8
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@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ config X86_BIGSMP
---help---
This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs
if X86_32
config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
default y
@ -293,12 +294,37 @@ config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of
systems out there.)
If you enable this option then you'll be able to select a number
of non-PC x86 platforms.
If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support
for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms:
AMD Elan
NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)
RDC R-321x SoC
SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)
Summit/EXA (IBM x440)
Unisys ES7000 IA32 series
Voyager (NCR)
If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a
generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N.
endif
if X86_64
config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
default y
---help---
If you disable this option then the kernel will only support
standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of
systems out there.)
If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support
for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms:
ScaleMP vSMP
SGI Ultraviolet
If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a
generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N.
endif
# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms
# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions