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Orig file: v2.3.42/linux/Documentation/Configure.help
Orig date: Tue Feb 1 01:35:43 2000

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@@ -557,6 +557,13 @@
 
   People with SCSI-only systems should say N here. If unsure, say Y.
 
+Cyrix CS5530 MediaGX chipset support
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530
+  Include support for UDMA on the Cyrix MediaGX 5530 chipset. This
+  will automatically be detected and configured if found.
+
+  It is safe to say Y to this question.
+
 Generic PCI IDE chipset support
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI
   Say Y here for PCI systems which use IDE drive(s).
@@ -583,7 +590,7 @@
   It is safe to say Y to this question.
 
 Good-Bad DMA Model-Firmware (EXPERIMENTAL)
-IDEDMA_NEW_DRIVE_LISTINGS
+CONFIG_IDEDMA_NEW_DRIVE_LISTINGS
   If you say Y here, the model and firmware revision of your drive
   will be compared against a blacklist of buggy drives that claim to
   be (U)DMA capable but aren't. This is a blanket on/off test with no
@@ -711,12 +718,12 @@
   Please read the comments at the top of drivers/block/hpt366.c
 
 HPT366 Fast Interrupt support (EXPERIMENTAL) (WIP)
-HPT366_FAST_IRQ_PREDICTION
+CONFIG_HPT366_FAST_IRQ_PREDICTION
 
   If unsure, say N.
 
 HPT366 mode three unsupported (EXPERIMENTAL) (WIP)
-HPT366_MODE3
+CONFIG_HPT366_MODE3
   This is an undocumented mode that the HA366 can default to in many cases.
   If unsure, say N.
 
@@ -785,7 +792,7 @@
   If unsure, say N.
 
 Special UDMA Feature
-PDC202XX_FORCE_BURST_BIT
+CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE_BURST_BIT
   For PDC20246 and PDC20262 Ultra DMA chipsets. Designed originally
   for PDC20246/Ultra33 that has BIOS setup failures when using 3 or
   more cards.
@@ -795,7 +802,7 @@
   If unsure, say N.
 
 Special Mode Feature (EXPERIMENTAL)
-PDC202XX_FORCE_MASTER_MODE
+CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE_MASTER_MODE
   For PDC20246 and PDC20262 Ultra DMA chipsets. This is reserved for
   possible Hardware RAID 0,1 for the FastTrak Series.
 
@@ -2171,7 +2178,8 @@
 Acorn VIDC support
 CONFIG_FB_ACORN
   This is the frame buffer device driver for the Acorn VIDC graphics
-  chipset.
+  hardware found in Acorn RISC PCs and other ARM-based machines.  If
+  unsure, say N.
 
 Apollo frame buffer device
 CONFIG_FB_APOLLO
@@ -2212,6 +2220,13 @@
   kernel. Please note that this driver DOES NOT support the
   Cybervision 64 3D card, as they use incompatible video chips.
 
+CyberPro 20x0 support
+CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000
+  This enables support for the Integraphics CyberPro 20x0 and 5000
+  VGA chips used in the Rebel.com Netwinder and other machines.
+  Say Y if you have a NetWinder or a graphics card containing this
+  device, otherwise say N.
+
 Amiga CyberVision3D support (EXPERIMENTAL)
 CONFIG_FB_VIRGE
   This enables support for the Cybervision 64/3D graphics card from
@@ -2332,6 +2347,14 @@
   You will get a boot time penguin logo at no additional cost. Please
   read Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. If unsure, say Y.
 
+VGA 16-color planar support
+CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES
+  This low level frame buffer console driver enable the kernel to use
+  the 16-color planar modes of the old VGA cards where the bits of each
+  pixel are separated into 4 plans.
+  Only answer Y here if you have an (very old) VGA card that isn't
+  VESA 2 compatible.
+
 VGA 16-color graphics console
 CONFIG_FB_VGA16
   This is the frame buffer device driver for VGA 16 color graphic
@@ -2342,6 +2365,25 @@
   running kernel whenever you want), say M here and read
   Documentation/modules.txt. The module will be called vga16fb.o.
 
+VGA 8x16 font
+CONFIG_FONT_8x16
+  This is the "high resolution" font for the VGA frame buffer (the one
+  provided by the text console 80x25 mode.
+
+Support only 8 pixels wide fonts
+CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY
+  Answer Y here will make the kernel provide only the 8x8 fonts (these
+  are the less readable).
+
+VGA 8x8 font
+CONFIG_FONT_8x8
+  This is the "high resolution" font for the VGA frame buffer (the one
+  provided by the text console 80x50 (and higher) modes.
+  Note this is a poor quality font. The VGA 8x16 font is quite a lot
+  more readable.
+  Given the resolution provided by the frame buffer device, anwser N
+  here is safe.
+
 Backward compatibility mode for Xpmac
 CONFIG_FB_COMPAT_XPMAC
   If you use the Xpmac X server (common with mklinux), you'll need to
@@ -2635,6 +2677,12 @@
   Ultra/AX machines. This code is also available as a module (say M),
   called parport_ax.o. If in doubt, saying N is the safe plan.
 
+Support IEEE1284 status readback
+CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK
+  If you have a device on your parrallel port that support this protocol,
+  this option'll enable it to report its status.
+  It is safe to say Y.
+
 IEEE1284 transfer modes
 CONFIG_PARPORT_1284
   If you have a printer that supports status readback or device ID, or
@@ -3839,7 +3887,8 @@
   of your ATM card below.
 
   Note that you need a set of user-space programs to actually make use
-  of ATM. See the file Documentation/atm.txt for further details.
+  of ATM. See the file Documentation/networking/atm.txt for further
+  details.
 
 Classical IP over ATM
 CONFIG_ATM_CLIP
@@ -3981,12 +4030,30 @@
   overhead for timer synchronization and also per-packet overhead for
   time conversion.
 
-IDT 77201 (NICStAR)
+IDT 77201/11 (NICStAR) (ForeRunnerLE)
 CONFIG_ATM_NICSTAR
   The NICStAR chipset family is used in a large number of ATM NICs for
   25 and for 155 Mbps, including IDT cards and the Fore ForeRunnerLE
   series.
 
+ForeRunner LE155 PHYsical layer
+CONFIG_ATM_NICSTAR_USE_SUNI
+  Support for the S-UNI and compatible PHYsical layer chips. These are
+  found in most 155Mbps NICStAR based ATM cards, namely in the
+  ForeRunner LE155 cards. This driver provides detection of cable
+  removal and reinsertion and provides some statistics. This driver
+  doesn't have removal capability when compiled as a module, so if you
+  need that capability don't include S-UNI support (it's not needed to
+  make the card work).
+
+ForeRunner LE25 PHYsical layer
+CONFIG_ATM_NICSTAR_USE_IDT77105
+  Support for the PHYsical layer chip in ForeRunner LE25 cards. In
+  addition to cable removal/reinsertion detection, this driver allows
+  you to control the loopback mode of the chip via a dedicated IOCTL.
+  This driver is required for proper handling of temporary carrier
+  loss, so if you have a 25Mbps NICStAR based ATM card you must say Y.
+
 Madge Ambassador (Collage PCI 155 Server)
 CONFIG_ATM_AMBASSADOR
   This is a driver for ATMizer based ATM card produced by Madge
@@ -4025,6 +4092,33 @@
   speed of the driver, and the size of your syslog files! When
   inactive, they will have only a modest impact on performance.
 
+Interphase ATM PCI x575/x525/x531 
+CONFIG_ATM_IA
+  This is a driver for the Interphase (i)ChipSAR adapter cards
+  which include a variety of variants in term of the size of the 
+  control memory (128K-1KVC, 512K-4KVC), the size of the packet 
+  memory (128K, 512K, 1M), and the PHY type (Single/Multi mode OC3, 
+  UTP155, UTP25, DS3 and E3). Go to:
+  	www.iphase.com/products/ClassSheet.cfm?ClassID=ATM
+  for more info about the cards. Say Y (or M to compile as a module 
+  named iphase.o) here if you have one of these cards.
+
+  See the file Documentation/networking/iphase.txt for further
+  details.
+
+Enable debugging messages
+CONFIG_ATM_IA_DEBUG
+  Somewhat useful debugging messages are available. The choice of
+  messages is controlled by a bitmap. This may be specified as a
+  module argument (kernel command line argument as well?), changed
+  dynamically using an ioctl (Get the debug utility, iadbg, from 
+  ftp.iphase.com/pub/atm/pci). See the file drivers/atm/iphase.h 
+  for the meanings of the bits in the mask.
+
+  When active, these messages can have a significant impact on the
+  speed of the driver, and the size of your syslog files! When
+  inactive, they will have only a modest impact on performance.
+
 SCSI support?
 CONFIG_SCSI
   If you want to use a SCSI hard disk, SCSI tape drive, SCSI CDROM or
@@ -4067,6 +4161,18 @@
   on a SCSI disk. In this case, do not compile the driver for your
   SCSI host adapter (below) as a module either.
 
+Extra SCSI Disks
+CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS
+  This controls the amount of additional space allocated in tables for
+  drivers that are loaded as modules after the kernel is booted.  In
+  the event that the SCSI core itself was loaded as a module, this this
+  value is the number of additional disks that can be loaded after the
+  first host driver is loaded.
+
+  Admittedly this isn't pretty, but there are tons of race conditions
+  involved with resizing the internal arrays on the fly.  Someday this
+  flag will go away, and everything will work automatically.
+
 SCSI tape support
 CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST
   If you want to use a SCSI tape drive under Linux, say Y and read the
@@ -4081,6 +4187,18 @@
   module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt and
   Documentation/scsi.txt .
 
+Extra SCSI Tapes
+CONFIG_ST_EXTRA_DEVS
+  This controls the amount of additional space allocated in tables for
+  drivers that are loaded as modules after the kernel is booted.  In the
+  event that the SCSI core itself was loaded as a module, this this value
+  is the number of additional tape devices that can be loaded after the
+  first host driver is loaded.
+
+  Admittedly this isn't pretty, but there are tons of race conditions
+  involved with resizing the internal arrays on the fly.  Someday this
+  flag will go away, and everything will work automatically.
+
 SCSI CDROM support
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR
   If you want to use a SCSI CDROM under Linux, say Y and read the
@@ -4094,6 +4212,18 @@
   module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt and
   Documentation/scsi.txt .
 
+Extra SCSI CDROMs
+CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS
+  This controls the amount of additional space allocated in tables for
+  drivers that are loaded as modules after the kernel is booted.  In the
+  event that the SCSI core itself was loaded as a module, this this value
+  is the number of additional CDROMs that can be loaded after the first
+  host driver is loaded.
+
+  Admittedly this isn't pretty, but there are tons of race conditions
+  involved with resizing the internal arrays on the fly.  Someday this
+  flag will go away, and everything will work automatically.
+
 Enable vendor-specific extensions (for SCSI CDROM)
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR
   This enables the usage of vendor specific SCSI commands. This is
@@ -7265,7 +7395,7 @@
   Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt.
 
 DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support
-CONFIG_DEC_ELCP
+CONFIG_TULIP
   This driver is developed for the SMC EtherPower series Ethernet
   cards and also works with cards based on the DECchip
   21040/21041/21140 (Tulip series) chips. Some LinkSys PCI cards are
@@ -9398,9 +9528,9 @@
   from the Microsoft fat filesystem family or from JOLIET CDROMs
   correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate
   input/output character sets. Say Y here for the Latin 8 character
-  set, which adds the last accented vowels for Welsh (and Manx Gaelic)
-  that were missing in Latin 1. http://linux.speech.cymru.org/
-  has further information.
+  set, which adds the last accented vowels for Welsh (aka Cymraeg)
+  (and Manx Gaelic) hat were missing in Latin 1.
+  http://linux.speech.cymru.org/ has further information.
 
 nls iso8859-15
 CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15
@@ -10357,6 +10487,11 @@
 
   If unsure, say N.
 
+Enter S1 for sleep (EXPERIMENTAL)
+CONFIG_ACPI_S1_SLEEP
+  This enable ACPI compliant devices to enter level 1 of ACPI saving
+  power levels. Basically, this will let them entering in sleep mode.
+
 Advanced Power Management
 CONFIG_APM
   APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different
@@ -12958,7 +13093,84 @@
 
   If you do not have any Quicknet telephony cards, you can safely
   ignore this option.
- 
+
+/dev/agpgart (AGP Support) (EXPERIMENTAL)
+CONFIG_AGP
+  The agpgart kernel module is necessary to use the AGP features
+  of your 3D rendering video card.  It acts as a sort of "AGP
+  driver" for the motherboard's chipset.
+  Loading this module into the kernel will allow the glx module to
+  program the GART (graphics aperture relocation table) registers
+  with appropriate values to transfer commands to the card. 
+
+  If you need more texture memory than you can get with the AGP GART
+  (theoretically up to 256 megs, but in practice usually 64 or 128
+  megs due to kernel allocation issues), you could use PCI accesses
+  and have up to a couple gigs of texture space.
+
+  Note that this is the only meas to have get XFree4/GLX use
+  write-combining with MTRR support on AGP bus. Without, OpenGL
+  direct rendering will be a lot slower but still faster than PIO.
+
+  For the moment, most people should say no, unless you want to
+  test the GLX component which can be downloaded from
+       http://glx.on.openprojects.net/
+
+  or need to use the 810 Xserver in XFree 3.3.6
+
+Intel 440LX/BX/GX support
+CONFIG_AGP_INTEL
+  This option give you AGP support for the GLX component of the
+  "soon to be released" XFree86-4 on Intel 440LX/BX/GX chipsets.
+
+  For the moment, most people should say no, unless you want to
+  test the GLX component which can be downloaded from
+       http://glx.on.openprojects.net/
+
+Intel I810/I810 DC100/I810e support
+CONFIG_AGP_I810
+  This option give you AGP support for the Xserver for the intel
+  810 chipset boards. This is required to do any useful video
+  modes.
+
+VIA VP3/MVP3/Apollo Pro support
+CONFIG_AGP_VIA
+  This option give you AGP support for the GLX component of the
+  "soon to be released" XFree86-4 on VIA MPV3/Apollo Pro chipsets.
+
+  For the moment, most people should say no, unless you want to
+  test the GLX component which can be downloaded from
+       http://glx.on.openprojects.net/
+
+AMD Irongate support
+CONFIG_AGP_AMD
+  This option give you AGP support for the GLX component of the
+  "soon to be released" XFree86-4 on Intel AMD Irongate chipset.
+
+  For the moment, most people should say no, unless you want to
+  test the GLX component which can be downloaded from
+       http://glx.on.openprojects.net/
+
+Generic SiS support
+CONFIG_AGP_SIS
+  This option give you AGP support for the GLX component of the
+  "soon to be released" XFree86-4 on Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
+  chipsets.
+
+  Note than 5591/5592 AGP chipsets are NOT supported.
+
+  For the moment, most people should say no, unless you want to
+  test the GLX component which can be downloaded from
+       http://glx.on.openprojects.net/
+
+ALI M1541 support
+CONFIG_AGP_ALI
+  This option give you AGP support for the GLX component of the
+  "soon to be released" XFree86-4 on ALI M1541 chipset.
+
+  For the moment, most people should say no, unless you want to
+  test the GLX component which can be downloaded from
+       http://glx.on.openprojects.net/
 
 #
 # ARM options
@@ -13487,7 +13699,6 @@
   The kHTTPd is experimental. Be careful when using it on a production
   machine. Also note that kHTTPd doesn't support virtual servers yet.
 
-#
 I2C support
 CONFIG_I2C
   I2C (pronounce: I-square-C) is a slow bus protocol developed by
@@ -13540,6 +13751,7 @@
   files, usually found in the /dev directory on your system. They
   make it possible to have user-space programs use the I2C bus.
 
+#
 # A couple of things I keep forgetting:
 #   capitalize: AppleTalk, Ethernet, DOS, DMA, FAT, FTP, Internet, 
 #               Intel, IRQ, Linux, MSDOS, NetWare, NetWinder, NFS, 
@@ -13801,4 +14013,4 @@
 # LocalWords:  adbmouse DRI DRM dlabs GMX PLCs Applicom fieldbus applicom int
 # LocalWords:  VWSND eg ESSSOLO CFU CFNR scribed eiconctrl eicon hylafax KFPU
 # LocalWords:  EXTRAPREC fpu mainboards KHTTPD kHTTPd khttpd Xcelerator
-# LocalWords:  LOGIBUSMOUSE OV511 ov511
+# LocalWords:  LOGIBUSMOUSE OV511 ov511 Integraphics
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