menuconfig DMADEVICES
bool "DMA Engine support"
- depends on (PCI && X86) || ARCH_IOP32X || ARCH_IOP33X || ARCH_IOP13XX || PPC
- depends on !HIGHMEM64G
+ depends on !HIGHMEM64G && HAS_DMA
help
DMA engines can do asynchronous data transfers without
involving the host CPU. Currently, this framework can be
used to offload memory copies in the network stack and
- RAID operations in the MD driver.
+ RAID operations in the MD driver. This menu only presents
+ DMA Device drivers supported by the configured arch, it may
+ be empty in some cases.
if DMADEVICES
config NET_DMA
bool "Network: TCP receive copy offload"
depends on DMA_ENGINE && NET
+ default (INTEL_IOATDMA || FSL_DMA)
help
This enables the use of DMA engines in the network stack to
offload receive copy-to-user operations, freeing CPU cycles.
- Since this is the main user of the DMA engine, it should be enabled;
- say Y here.
+
+ Say Y here if you enabled INTEL_IOATDMA or FSL_DMA, otherwise
+ say N.
endif