Table of Contents

EXPERIMENTAL - Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers

LOCALVERSION - Local version -- append to kernel release

AUDIT - Auditing support

IKCONFIG - Kernel .config support

EMBEDDED - Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)

MODULES - Enable loadable module support

IOSCHED_NOOP - No-op I/O scheduler

IOSCHED_AS - Anticipatory I/O scheduler

IOSCHED_DEADLINE - Deadline I/O scheduler

IOSCHED_CFQ - CFQ I/O scheduler

SMP - Symmetric multi-processing support

M386 - 386

X86_GENERIC - Generic x86 support

NR_CPUS - Maximum number of CPUs (2-255)

SCHED_SMT - SMT (Hyper-Threading) scheduler support

PREEMPT_NONE - No forced preemption (server)

PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY - Voluntary kernel preemption (desktop)

PREEMPT - Preemptible kernel (low-latency desktop)

PREEMPT_BKL - Preempt the Big Kernel Lock

NOHIGHMEM - off

HIGHMEM4G - 4GB

HIGHMEM64G - 64GB

FLATMEM_MANUAL - Flat memory

DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL - Discontiguous memory

SPARSEMEM_MANUAL - Sparse memory

SECCOMP - Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode

KEXEC - kexec system call (experimental)

HOTPLUG_CPU - Support for hot-pluggable CPUs (experimental)

PM - Power Management support

SOFTWARE_SUSPEND - Software suspend

ACPI - ACPI Support

CPU_FREQ - CPU frequency scaling

CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE - performance

CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE - userspace

CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE - "Performance" CPUFreq policy governor

CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE - "Powersave" CPUFreq policy governor

CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE - "Userspace" CPUFreq policy governor

CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND - "Ondemand" CPUFreq policy governor

CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE - "Conservative" CPUFreq policy governor

PCI - PCI support

PCCARD - PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) support

PCMCIA - 16-bit PCMCIA support

CARDBUS - 32-bit CardBus support

HOTPLUG_PCI - Support for PCI Hotplug (experimental)

NET - Networking support

UNIX - Unix domain sockets

INET - TCP/IP networking

IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER - IP: advanced router

NETFILTER - Network packet filtering

NET_SCHED - QoS and/or fair queueing

IRDA - IrDA (infrared) subsystem support

IRLAN - IrLAN protocol

IRNET - IrNET protocol

IRCOMM - IrCOMM protocol

IRDA_ULTRA - Ultra (connectionless) protocol

BT - Bluetooth subsystem support

IEEE80211 - Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack

MTD - Memory Technology Device (MTD) support

PARPORT - Parallel port support

PNP - Plug and Play support

ISAPNP - ISA Plug and Play support

PNPBIOS - Plug and Play BIOS support (experimental)

IDE - ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support

BLK_DEV_IDE - Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support

BLK_DEV_IDEDISK - Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support

BLK_DEV_IDECD - Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support

BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY - Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support

SCSI - SCSI device support

BLK_DEV_SD - SCSI disk support

CHR_DEV_ST - SCSI tape support

BLK_DEV_SR - SCSI CDROM support

CHR_DEV_SG - SCSI generic support

CHR_DEV_SCH - SCSI media changer support

SCSI_MULTI_LUN - Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device

SCSI_SATA - Serial ATA (SATA) support

MD - Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)

BLK_DEV_MD - RAID support

BLK_DEV_DM - Device mapper support

IEEE1394 - IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support

I2O - I2O support

NETDEVICES - Network device support

NET_ETHERNET - Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)

NET_RADIO - Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) and Wireless Extensions

PPP - PPP (point-to-point protocol) support

PPPOE - PPP over Ethernet (experimental)

ISDN - ISDN support

PHONE - Linux telephony support

INPUT - Generic input layer (needed for keyboard, mouse, ...)

VT - Virtual terminal

VT_CONSOLE - Support for console on virtual terminal

SERIAL_8250 - 8250/16550 and compatible serial support

AGP - /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)

DRM - Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)

I2C - I2C support

SPI - SPI support

HWMON - Hardware monitoring support

VIDEO_DEV - Video For Linux

DVB - DVB For Linux

FB - Support for frame buffer devices

VGA_CONSOLE - VGA text console

LOGO - Bootup logo

SOUND - Sound card support

SND - Advanced Linux sound architecture

SND_USB_AUDIO - USB Audio/MIDI driver

USB - Support for Host-side USB

USB_EHCI_HCD - EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support

USB_OHCI_HCD - OHCI HCD support

USB_UHCI_HCD - UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support

USB_STORAGE - USB mass storage support

USB_SERIAL - USB serial converter support

USB_GADGET - Support for USB Gadgets

MMC - MMC support

INFINIBAND - InfiniBand support

EDAC - EDAC core system error reporting (experimental)

EXT2_FS - Second extended filesystem support

EXT3_FS - Third extended file system support

REISERFS_FS - ReiserFS support

JFS_FS - JFS filesystem support

XFS_FS - XFS filesystem support

OCFS2_FS - OCFS2 file system support (experimental)

INOTIFY - inotify file change notification support

QUOTA - Quota support

AUTOFS_FS - Kernel automounter support

FUSE_FS - Filesystem in Userspace support

SMB_FS - SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)

CIFS - CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)

PROFILING - Profiling support (experimental)

OPROFILE - OProfile system profiling (experimental)

KPROBES - Kprobes (experimental)

PRINTK_TIME - Show timing information on printks

MAGIC_SYSRQ - Magic SysRq key

DEBUG_KERNEL - Kernel debugging

DEBUG_FS - Debug filesystem

SECURITY - Enable different security models

SECURITY_SELINUX - NSA SELinux Support