clean up subarchitecture selection
PATCH 1/1 clean up subarchitecture selection
shorter and/or more descriptive choice names, add a full (tho still commented out entry) for the visw, based on the 2.4 Configure.help entry.
arch/i386/Kconfig +15 -6
@@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ default PC config PC - bool PC + bool "IBM PC (and compatible)" help Choose this option if your computer is a standard PC or compatible. config VOYAGER - bool "NCR Voyager Architecture" - ---help--- + bool "NCR Voyager" + help Voyager is a MCA based 32 way capable SMP architecture proprietary to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are voyager based.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ say N here otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable. config X86_NUMAQ - bool "Multiquad (IBM/Sequent) NUMAQ support" + bool "IBM/Sequent NUMAQ" help This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped,
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ email to [email protected] config X86_SUMMIT - bool "IBM x440 (Summit/EXA) support" + bool "IBM x440 (Summit/EXA)" help This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. In particular, it is needed for the x440.
@@ -77,7 +77,16 @@ # Visual Workstation support is utterly broken. # If you want to see it working mail an VW540 to [email protected] 8) -#bool 'SGI Visual Workstation support' CONFIG_VISWS +#config X86_VISWS +# bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" +# help +# The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation +# based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. +# +# Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. +# +# A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will not run on PCs +# and vice versa. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. endchoice