[PATCH 1/6] AMD IOMMU: more verbose Kconfig description text

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From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 10:35 am

This patch replaces the short description text for AMD IOMMU in Kconfig with a
more verbose one.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index dc6425e..c31047a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -568,7 +568,15 @@ 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
-- 
1.5.3.7


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[PATCH 0/6] AMD IOMMU updates, Joerg Roedel, (Thu Jul 3, 10:35 am)
[PATCH 1/6] AMD IOMMU: more verbose Kconfig description text, Joerg Roedel, (Thu Jul 3, 10:35 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] AMD IOMMU updates, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jul 4, 2:52 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] AMD IOMMU updates, FUJITA Tomonori, (Mon Jul 7, 12:40 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] AMD IOMMU updates, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Jul 7, 12:44 am)